Take action in solidarity with Mexico
January 2025: Canada and the US have successfully challenged Mexico’s ban on genetically engineered (genetically modified or GM) corn. Canada does not export any corn to Mexico but the Government of Canada wants to force open all markets to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Please sign today to join in solidarity with Mexico’s right to food sovereignty. This public sign-on statement condemns the recent trade dispute panel decision that sides with the interests of biotechnology corporations over Mexico’s right to protect its citizens’ health, livelihoods, culture, and environment from the harms of GMO corn.
Click here to sign before January 30, 2025.
• The US and Canada steamrolled Mexico’s food sovereignty over GM corn. Sign your name to express your outrage.
• Save Mexico’s tortillas from GM contamination! Sign-on to support Mexico’s food sovereignty.
• The US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement tribunal decision ignores science and overrides Mexico’s right to refuse GM corn despite possible impacts on health and environment. Sign on to protest the decision.
This trade challenge is consistent with Canada’s policies that support the profit-making of the biotechnology industry at the expense of democracy, transparency, choice in the marketplace and independent science, and despite risks to the environment and ongoing scientific uncertainty about harm to human health.
Mexico’s restrictions on GM corn sough to safeguard the integrity of native corn from GM contamination and protect human health. Corn is a staple of the Mexican diet and is central to Mexican culture and agriculture, history and national identity. Corn is sacred to Indigenous peoples in Mexico and essential to Indigenous cultural and spiritual practices.
For more information on the trade dispute and the impacts of GM corn see www.cban.ca/trade
