(Food-Beverage-News.Com, November 20, 2015 ) Foley, Alabama -- On November 2015, a press by Alex Pietrowski was published at The Open Mind, reported that Monsanto will need to consult with the Indigenous communities throughout the peninsula of Yucatan before being granted of any permits of setting up GMO soy farming within the area. This was a court decision applied in early of November 2015.
According to the press, Monsanto has been planning to farm genetically modified soybean in over 250,000 hectares of the Yucatan Region, yet a Mexican court has legitimately prohibited the Biotech giant's permit. The judgment was correlated on the law of the constitution that requires consideration of the present indigenous communities that are being affected by the GM projects.
The Maya beekeepers were the key organizations that were involved in the intervention to stop GMO soy farming in Mexico. There are about 15,000 families who basically collect and produce honey filed the injunction to prevent Monsanto from establishing GM crops within the area. These legal proceedings were also supported by Greenpeace, Indignación and Litiga OLE. According to the report, the primary concern of the Mayans is that growing and cultivating GM products within the area may require the use of glyphosate, an herbicide carcinogenic causing agent. According to the group, these chemical contaminated crops will be putting the communities, environment and economic activities at risk.
Despite the prohibition, Monsanto continues to seek legal consent from the federal government to lift the provisional ban on the sales of genetically modified maize seeds in the country. Back in August 2015, there was a new court decision that was declared in November 2011, conducted by federal Judge Benjamin Soto Sanchez, head of the second Unitarian Court in Civil and Administrative Matters of the First Circuit.
The recent success against Monsanto was a result of activist organizations such as Colectividad en Defensa del Maíz (CDM), which was also supported by Greenpeace México. Rene Sanchez, the attorney for CDM mentioned that cultivating transgenic seeds threatens the historical diversity, agricultural activities and the present culture of Mexico. There are other groups in the US like Victory Gardens continuously promotes Non-GMO products like Non-GMO products like heirloom seeds.
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