Demand that Mexico's president says no to genetically engineered corn

Together let’s stop our corn from being contaminated by genetic engineering

Mexico’s biodiversity and ecosystems are in danger. Genetically engineered (GE) crops will increase insects’ resistance to pesticides and weeds’ tolerance to herbicides.
Genetically engineered crops will contaminate conventional, organic and native varieties via gene flow, insects, wind and seed trading or farmers’ seed exchange.
Genetically engineered crops create too many environmental uncertainties, as well as uncertainties for human and animal health.
Genetically engineered crops will contaminate the native varieties of corn and will undermine Mexico’s ability to feed itself.
Genetically engineered crops will harm the economic well being of Mexican farmers because profits for genetically engineered seeds will be monopolized by a few multinationals.

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President Enrique Peña Nieto,

As a citizen of the world, I am writing to you to demand that your government says NO to the commercialisation of genetically engineering (GE) corn in Mexico. Your country is a centre of origin for corn (maize) and has ratified the United Nations’ Cartagena Biosafety Protocol. Therefore, Mexico has a responsibility to defend the integrity of the world’s centre of origin of corn from any GE contamination.

As you know, corn is an important source of food for the Mexican people, and the diversity of corn is important to the world. To lose thousands of varieties of corn, grown in diverse regions of your country, due to genetic contamination would be a serious blow to Mexico’s food sovereignty.

Mexicans have the right to decide the future of their food, but Mexico is also the custodian of the world centre of origin for corn.

For this reason, I respectfully demand that you ban immediately the planting of GE corn in all of its phases (pilot, experimental or commercial).

Your government must defend Mexico’s corn!

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