GEO Watch Update | Mexican civil society defeat of Monsanto et al
Moderator’s Note: We have received this update from our colleagues in the anti-GMO movement in Mexico as part of our continuing coverage of the social movement known as Sin Maíz, No Hay País (Without Corn, There is No Country). The remarkable court victory against Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer CropScience, and other so-called ‘Gene Giants’ in Mexico City federal court last October by the civil society organizations in Mexico was unprecedented. We have never before seen a Mexican federal court hand down a ruling in which the nation’s commitment as a signatory to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and the Cargtegena Biosafety Protocol trumped application of the investor-state treaty known as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with its purely symbolic and ultimately meaningless voluntary recommendations under the absurd framework of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). There is still work to do in Mexico and as our colleagues here note, “ Multinational seed com...