Mexico’s president has proposed banning GMO corn

A draft constitutional reform proposal aimed at protecting corn by banning the cultivation of GMO corn has been sent to Congress by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, TeleSUR reported on January 27.

Sheinbaum explained that the proposal amends Articles 4 and 27 of the Constitution, establishing corn as an “element of the national identity” of Mexicans, while at the same time banning the cultivation of transgenic corn in the country.

The president emphasized that it was here in Mesoamerica that corn was domesticated in the distant past. “Without corn, there is no country,” Sheinbaum stated.

Recall that in the past, the US and Mexico have had disputes over former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s decision to ban the use of genetically modified corn in human food. The U.S. demanded that the decision be reversed because it violated the free trade agreement.

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