Mexico Court Suspends Permits for Planting GM Corn Aristegui Noticias
go to original October 11, 2013

The Tenth District Court for Civil Matters in the Federal District ruled to suspend the issuance of permits for commercial release of genetically modified (GM) corn in Mexico and initiated the trial on this issue. The defendants are the federal government agencies SAGARPA [Secretariat of Agriculture, Stock Breeding, Rural Development Food] and SEMARNAT [Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources], who grant such permits, and companies like Monsanto.

On the first edition of MVS News, representatives of civil organizations and researchers who are pushing for rejection of GM corn explained the precautionary measure thanks to a class action suit.

They noted that fifty-three individuals and twenty civil associations initiated the legal action, and they defend suspension of commercial permits [for industrial planting of] corn.

... For his part, researcher Antonio Turrent Fernández, president of the Union of Scientists Committed to Society, argued that citizens have a right to food that does no harm and is varied. Turrent pointed out that Mexico "is the center of origin of maize [corn]"; thus, he considered that this food is "the heritage of all of us."

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