Posted on 02/18/2023 6:46:47 PM PST by Golden Eagle
Environmental groups on Tuesday accused the Biden administration of putting the profits of big agribusiness over public health and critical pollinators by attempting to obstruct the Mexican government’s ongoing push to ban genetically engineered (GE) corn.
“The U.S.’s shameful efforts to strong-arm Mexico into accepting GE corn it has rejected is nothing short of 21st-century imperialism,” Lori Ann Burd, environmental health director at the U.S.-based Center for Biological Diversity.
“Our government is working tirelessly to pad the multibillion-dollar profits of domestic agribusiness corporations by pushing GE corn, even though our glyphosate-drenched GE cornfields are playing an outsized role in driving catastrophic declines in vital pollinator populations.”
The group’s statement came after Mexico issued a new decree earlier this week that scraps the country’s original January 2024 deadline to halt imports of GMO corn for livestock feed and industrial use, a move widely seen as a concession to the U.S., which has been pressuring its southern neighbor to drop the ban since Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador first announced it in 2020.
But Mexico — the largest destination for U.S. corn exports — reiterated its intention to prohibit GE corn for human consumption by 2024 in its latest decree. Mexico is also aiming to ban imports and use of glyphosate, a cancer-linked chemical that is often sprayed on genetically engineered corn.
The new decree instructs Mexican authorities to “revoke and refrain from granting permits for the release into the environment in Mexico of genetically modified corn seeds.”
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Just another example of how Biden is worse than Putin.
I’d bet big money that Lori Ann Burd voted for Biteme.
Lori can do a donkey show in Tijuana.
If you got the COVID vaccination you are now a GMO organism
I know her. She is a lunatic. And that should greatly inform you of the veracity of this article.
I don’t know her but I know of her.
I wrote a post some time ago calling her a dips#!t for rewriting the history of Alec Baldwin’s rant on Conan O’Brien calling for people to stone Henry Hyde.
She tried to make it sound like a harmless good-natured joke. It wasn’t. I was watching that show live and heard the whole thing for myself.
Sorry, ignore my last post. I wrongly assumed I was on the Ann Coulter thread. Doh!
WRONG! This is an administration tirelessly using our government corruptly.
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But Mexico - the largest destination for U.S. corn exports - reiterated its intention to prohibit GE corn for human consumption by 2024 in its latest decree.
Mexico is also aiming to ban imports and use of glyphosate, a cancer-linked chemical that is often sprayed on genetically engineered corn.
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So Mexico is banning its largest supply of corn and simultaneously banning the use of glyphosate, guaranteeing an even lower harvest of its own corm. Genius.
BIDEN cannot run this country worth a hoot-—
NOW he wants to run Mexico!!
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