UNAM Experts: GM Corn Can Be a Global Catastrophe Alma E. Munoz - La Jornada
go to original December 14, 2013

As a way of "celebrating" the precautionary measure granted by a federal judge on October 10, 2013, which for the moment puts on hold commercial introduction of GM corn into Mexico by several multinational companies, in Mexico City's Zócalo, activists "smashed the Monsanto piñata into pieces." (Oscar Ramos)

Contamination from genetically modified corn [GM Corn] can be a global catastrophe, endangering peoples and cultures, came the warning during the course of research and teaching about sustainable development, which was coordinated by UNAM's [National Autonomous University of Mexico] former president, Pablo González Casanova.

Cristina Barros Valero, professor of letters at the UNAM, stressed the importance of promoting sustainable farming projects to avoid the deterioration caused by genetically modified crops.

In turn, Ana Esther Ceceña, from the Institute of Economic Research, warned that capitalism eats away at cultures and is already unsustainable today.

"It cannot solve the problems that it has caused," she stated, and she reported that the system generated "an ecological catastrophe of very uncivilized dimensions."

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