GM Corn Would Bring Mexico Few Benefits, Big Risks Fernando Camacho Servin - La Jornada
go to original October 26, 2014

A corn farmer places corn cobs on the ground during a protest against the growing of transgenic or genetically modified corn in Mexico City in this January 23, 2013 file photo. (Reuters/Bernardo Montoya)

Genetically modified (GM) corn would neither generate greater productivity in the Mexican countryside nor reduce the price of corn. Conversely, it would definitely mean a grave danger of contaminating native seeds and damaging consumer health.

So warned a group of scientists specialized in the subject, who also pointed out that if this variety of corn is disseminated, the multinationals can argue that their product is being used unjustly, demanding payment for it and controlling the market, which would put at risk the country's food sovereignty.

During a forum organized in Humanities Tower II at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, [UNAM], José Antonio Serratos, vice president of the Union of Scientists Committed to Society, said that although the planting of GM corn has not yet been licensed, the truth of the matter is that authorities have focused on promoting it by not designing strategies to protect native seeds.

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