The poisoned tortilla

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Corn OGM will be planted in Tamaulipas for human consumption
The poisoned tortilla
By: Carlos Damián July 26, 2012
The corporations force the government to eliminate legal restrictions
México. - Before and after the recent presidential election, the Mexican government has received strong pressures of transnational corporations so that the legal restrictions are eliminated to the transgenic sowing, these actions head them the American signature Monsanto, the biggest biotechnology producer in the world. The pressures are not new, they have become worse in recent weeks, Elena Alvarez-Buylla (EAB) indicates, investigator of the Institute of Ecology of the UNAM and member of Committed Scientists Union with the Society (UCSS), to the one who the previous officials of institutions related with the topic that “asked me not to say their names revealed."

The academic Miguel Altieri, professor of the university of California and promoter of the agroecología that it was carried out in the headquarters of the UCCS. He makes us notice that the corporations dedicated to the biotechnology are concentrated on cultivations to satisfy the necessities of big and sure markets as that of agrocombustibles. He underlines that the economic interests of the transnational corporations are so much pressure that they exercise on the governments of several countries so that they design laws and political that are they favorable. José Antonio Serratos Hernandez, investigator and academic of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM), he offered data that corroborate the warnings that are made about the implicit risks in the transgenics use from 1995.

It also questioned the “Monsanto’s propaganda” that outlines a speech in favor of the feeding and the protection of the natural resources and the biodiversity, while different studies in The States and Europe evidence that their practices are noxious to the health. EAB indicated that if the transgenics corporations are very interested in markets as the Mexican is because their activities are questioned and limited in countries with more rigorous controls. The studies and relative data to the risks of the biotechnical cultivations can be consulted directly in the portal of the UCCS in internet: www.uccs.mx

The food and the poisoned dinner
In Argentina, third world producer of transgenics, they have been begun to organize the towns of several counties against the fumigation that they are areas of cultivations transgenics, this because near these cultivations the illnesses like the cancer have increased, problems in the skin, diverse allergies, and in the women pregnant deformation in the neonates. As long as in that South American country it was carried out the first trial recently against the fumigation of transgenic soybean in Ituzaingo, Cordoba, for the illnesses and contamination that have been shown.

Contrary to Mexico that they have not learned anything of their South American neighbors and due to the relaxation of their laws and regulations have just authorized the commercial sowing of 235 thousand 500 hectares of that cultivation in several states of Mexico, like in Yucatan, Tamaulipas, and Chiapas State, and in the ‘huasteca’ region condemning to the extinction the production of organic honey so dear in Europe, and the economic sustenance of more than 40 thousand families. These damages for the poison watered to the environment generated by transnational products extend to producers, bees, pollination, biodiversity and floors, the massive sowing of transgenics in the peninsula of Yucatan; taking into account the porosity of the floor and ‘carstic’ systems, it will take to the quick contamination of the aquifers and underground systems, for what the whole population of the peninsula is directly condemned to the contamination that poisons the human being like cockroach to the lingering death.

The merchants of the death
The liberation of soybean transgenic, contrary to Mexico for these impacts so serious and others that we won't mention for space lack had negative verdict in Europe (to exception of Spain), and on the part of Conabio, Ine, and Conamp, official institutions that should participate for law in the process of decision. However in contrast of abundant data and official negative verdicts, their liberation was approved in Mexico. Greenpeace presented a demand against the responsible officials (among them it is included the president from Mexico and the executive of Sagarpa), and several organizations of beekeepers and peasants that they have a “habeas corpus”, sought protection against this decision, clearly unjust, and illegal. Stopping the export of honey completely to Europe. A unilateral decision that looks for to eliminate the Mexican peasant of the field, against the health, the biodiversity, and the population's economy only to favor to a transnational one and some industrial that are devoted to the agro-business.

These merchants of the death, they have the transnational pattern in which they aren’t caring the population's health but the money only, in which the transgenics is their maximum exponent and it is an agricultural model based on agrotoxics (euphemistically called " agrochemically"), with the looked for complicity and bought by the six corporate, with the governments, to generate death and desolation in the fields, they were presented in a session of the permanent Tribunal of the Towns in Bangalore, India, in December 2011. The verdict concluded, among other points that it is a model that implies a “global injustice", where six transnational they are responsible for the systematic and broadly diffused violation of the right to the health and the life, of the economic, social and cultural rights, as well as of other political and civil rights, of the women, and the children". (La Jornada, sociedad y justicia, p.p. 25-33, July 14, 2012).