How “backward” is Mexico’s pushback against the ‘scientific consensus’ that the US claims? The US is ramping up it’s almost-formalized trade war with Mexico over Mexico’s evolving ban on GM corn for human consumption, ban on the use of glyphosate herbicide, and rejection of various types of bio-engineered seeds. The US position is that theContinue reading “Revelations of chemical company manipulating the science reinforce Mexico’s GMO corn and herbicide caution”
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GMO corn ban next step? Science goes to mediation.
Mexico answered the US call to show the science behind the limited GMO corn ban. The US didn’t like the response. Now both may be putting their science on the table for third party consideration. Though Mexico radically slimmed its GMO corn ban to now apply only to white corn used for tortillas and masa,Continue reading “GMO corn ban next step? Science goes to mediation.”
Show Me The Science — Or Else!
The USDA and agribiz ramp up their adherence to science — that is, the narrow slice of science that protects the billions of US dollars at stake with Mexico’s proposed GMO ban. The U.S. agriculture trade chief has given Mexico until February 14″ to “…explain the science behind Mexico’s planned bans on genetically modified cornContinue reading “Show Me The Science — Or Else!”
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