Mexico takes a stand against Big Ag to protect Mexican corn!

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (PNN) - October 9, 2023 - Back in 2014 when my online food store, Healthy Traditions, started testing all of our USDA certified organic grains for the presence of the herbicide glyphosate, which is used in RoundUp and is the world’s most-used herbicide, we were shocked to find out that even our USDA certified organic grains were almost all contaminated with glyphosate, even though they were “certified organic”.

We found out that the NOP (National Organics Program) allowed for small amounts of pesticides and herbicides in certified organic products, and so we stopped buying grains based on organic status, and also stopped “certifying” our own products as “organic,” since it now has almost no meaning anymore. Big Food wanted in on the booming organic grocery business, and it has successfully watered down Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) organic standards over the past decade or so.

Instead, we started testing all the products we wanted to purchase for the presence of glyphosate, and if we carried a product that had a GMO equivalent in the marketplace, we also tested for the presence of GMO DNA.

It started a very long process for us to find grains that were not contaminated, and in most cases, we had to look outside the FPSA to find such grains that tested clean.

By far, corn was the hardest product to source that tested clean of GMO DNA, and we even purchased certified organic corn products off the shelves of stores like Whole Foods, that were also GMO “verified,” and all the samples we tested came back positive for genetically modified DNA.

We were unable to find a single supplier of organic corn in the FPSA who had corn that tested clean.

We finally found a supplier down in Central Mexico, in a Province that at that time had banned the planting of FPSA GMO corn, that finally tested clean of GMO DNA, and we have been selling corn from that region ever since, for almost 10 years now.

Now, Mexico has decided to ban FPSA GMO corn nationwide, as well as ban the use of glyphosate, and the FPSA and Canada are trying to bully Mexico into continuing to import GMO corn.

Aljazeera recently published an excellent analysis of this “corn war” between the FPSA and Mexico.

Why is Mexico standing up to bigger neighbors FPSA and Canada on corn?

Mexico has barred the import of GMO corn for human consumption, raising the ire of exporter FPSA where most corn is GMO.