The United States Defends Commercial Interests Against Mexico’s Biodiversity and Food Sovereignty
The National Council of Human Sciences, Technology and Humanities (CONAHCYT) has a wide, deep and well documented dossier that demonstrates the risks to health and biodiversity of genetically modified corn and its associated herbicide, glyphosate.
However, the U.S. government has dismissed this evidence in its trade dispute against Mexico, accusing it of unfair practices since the U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trade Agreement (T-MEC) by refusing to use these corn products in mass production for staple foods such as tortillas, among other dishes.
This shows that the U.S. dispute, which has been widely announced is about to be won, only defends commercial interests against national sovereignty, food sovereignty, care for people’s health and biodiversity represented in Mexico in the milpa (a holistic and broad system of planting traditional foods) and corn.