Mexican Congress to Fox:

"Ban GM corn"

TheNewsMexico.com - 6dec01

The Mexican Congress unanimously demanded this week that President Vicente Fox ban the importation of genetically modified (GM) corn, and claimed the new corn could affect the genetic integrity of Mexico's crops and threaten the country's food supply.

GM corn has been a hot issue in Mexico since genes from U.S. GM corn were found in wild corn in the southern state of Oaxaca several months ago. The environmental organization Greenpeace has also claimed the Agricultural Secretariat, which has publicly supported introducing modified corn, is trying to open up the country's market to GM crops before legislation is passed prohibiting it.

The Senate has also demanded access to the results of Agriculture's Secretariat's study of the affected corn in Oaxaca as well as advances in the creation of the federal commission for biosecurity. Meanwhile, the Oaxaca state assembly is scrambling to get agricultural officials to give out information on the status of corn in their state which "could have health repercussions for Oaxacans and damage the country's ability to feed itself," legislators said. --- Meanwhile in the mother of parliaments we can't even get a debate!

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source: http://www.agrobiomexico.org/noticias/notas/diciembre.htm 7dec01