There is no doubt, the scientific data is conclusive.

Researcher Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces, an expert in the study of genetically modified corn in Mexico, points out: There is no doubt, the scientific data is conclusive. GMO and non-GMO corn cannot be segregated once it is released into the environment. And a center of origin and diversity of this plant, such as our territory, must be taken care of.

In interview with The Day highlights that the actions undertaken by the administration of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador to protect the population from the consumption of genetically modified corn and the contamination of its seeds and soils It is not only to strengthen our sovereignty and the right of peasant communities to live without GMOs, which do not disrupt their seed stocks that are so valuable, but also for global food security, present and future..

Prior to the ruling of the Panel for the settlement of disputes of the Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada, which determined that the presidential decree of February 2023, which establishes the prohibition of the use of genetically modified corn for dough and the tortilla is not based on a appropriate risk assessment, scientific evidence and relevant international standardsinsisted: no to transgenics in open fields in centers of origin and diversity. And, therefore, no to transgenic corn.

He stressed that free trade agreements have clauses that allow governments to protect their populations in areas that are fundamental for their sovereignty, but also to take care of their health, their environment and their food.

The researcher at the Institute of Ecology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and former director of the National Council of Sciences, Humanities and Technologies (Conahcyt), considered it as a unreasonin terms of human food, that a country where corn is its fundamental food, our not only cultural root, our current livelihood and our future livelihood, is taking a risk in this way and canceling the possibility of having corn free of GMOs and glyphosate..

Complete file

Álvarez-Buylla recalled that the government of former President López Obrador presented a complete scientific file, prepared jointly by Conahcyt and the Ministry of Economy, which is public and was recently presented on Corn Day, and the evidence is compelling.

He even warned that despite the 2023 presidential decree, There are still transgenic corn, both in our seed and grain stocks. These are data presented by very important researchers such as Alma Piñeiro, Patricia Delgado, and from the Intersecretarial Commission on Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms, a few days before the end of the six-year term..