Corn transgenic

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They are property of Monsanto 80 % of the seeds that are marketed in the world
Corn transgenic
By: Carlos Damián September 16, 2010
Transnational: threat to the food sovereignty
México.- Paradoxically to speak of " climatic change" is to fall in the trap of who have provoked it invites to think about a gradual change , natural and front to which does not remain more than try to "to adapt us" or “to ease" their effects. "We preferred to speak of climatic crisis, provoked by a society model that it has decided 'burning' the planet so that few human enjoy a life style that also perverse way have given in calling developed".

La crisis climática es una consecuencia de la civilización petrolera, con gravísimos impactos sociales y ambientales. El tema está plagado de trampas conceptuales, intentando que no reconozcamos las causas reales o los remedios falsos propuestos por quienes causan los problemas para seguir sacando ganancias aunque la crisis empeore. La idea es simple: la deforestación es un factor importante de emisiones de dióxido de carbono, por lo que se busca compensar financieramente a quienes puedan evitar la deforestación.

But the problems begin from the definition. In the convention on climatic change are referred in Redd - program to remedy the climatic crisis - to “avoided deforestation" and not to "to avoid the deforestation". Seems a semantic distraction, but the consequences are tremendous: not it is considered to support to who actually they avoid the deforestation, but of paying to who already destroy them the jungle and profit with this, so that felling and paying them what would let of earning. It is the same logic of the clean development Mechanism of that convention, that only supports to who may have dirty development paying them so that mess a little less.

The countries and communities that care their forests can not receive anything of the sort programs, it is necessary that first destroy them. That in a period is not felling a zone does not imply that couldn’t it able to do in the following years, stimulating thus also the opening of new zones to deforest while is returned then to those which is "let" of to deforest, in such a way that the same companies, NGO, governments be able to do business so much collecting of Redd as deforesting. The new Redd versions, calls Redd++, give a return but to the perversion, with more conceptual and greater traps affectation for the indigenous and forest communities.

Some versions introduce in the program the "conservation", “sustainable management of the forests" and the "improvement of the capacity of carbon storage in the forests". In this sense are wrong conceptualized such concepts. The "conservation" and “sustainable management of the forests", in the framework of Redd, means that states, NGO and technical will be able to define, with external rules elaborated by international institutions, up above of the communities, the use of their territories. Though this has meant in several countries, the indigenous communities expulsion of these areas and in all the alienation of the decision of the communities on their territories. Redd is a form of alienating the power of decision of the community assemblies so that groups compete by projects instead of fighting for their rights, for the recognition and support that would have to be public policy.

Move the corn advance transgenic in Mexico This country being the cradle of the corn, with a whole slew of varieties to feed to the Mexican people has been seen beaten by transnational that sell to them corn transgenic to finish with the corn that in a way natural and wild is sown in the country by the farmers and indigenous peasant. Now it results that must pay patent for the corn that sow and be unsure if it is for food of human or of animals, since is modified genetically by human fallacious and merchants cheats foolish.

German organizations, impel an international front for the protection of the center of origin of the corn before the advance of the cultivation of transgenic, whose sows already it is authorized, and the intention of the transnational of encouraging the peasants and consumers dependency. A delegation of 18 persons originating from Germany, attended to the “Sierra de Juarez” in 2001, finding the first cases of pollution transgenic, and had a meeting with Organization authorities Genetically Modified (Cibiogem).

With the idea of avoiding that the corn transgenic is expanded in the world and in this case Mexico, that it is center of origin, will be worked in international nets for the protection, said Jochen Fritz, of the alliance free Region of Hohenlohe of transgenic. Indicated us that the Corporative Monsanto, it has intention of contaminating this country by what is relevant and strategic that it is the corn for the World, "here this the cradle of the corn, that the transgenic contaminate it, and as the company patent has of the processes, this would be a form of preempting of the grains. It wants to sell their seeds to the peasants and to apply their motto: 'no there will be plants that they will not be of property of us '".

He recalled that 80 percent of the seeds that are traded to world scale are property of Monsanto, "that means that no longer they are the peasants neither the country those which can have the seeds, is deepened the dependency toward that company. It is a threat to the food sovereignty of all the countries of the world". (La Jornada, sociedad y justicia, p. 29, 27 de febrero, 2010).