Aerial view of a crop circle made by local farmers and
Greenpeace volunteers There aren’t too many corporations more
globally disliked than the sustainable agriculture company
Monsanto. And by “sustainable agriculture,” they mean
genetically engineering food crops with unknown chemicals
leading to health and environmental risks including a jarring
decline in global bee populations. The Mexican government is
likely to authorize the cultivation of genetically engineered
(GE) corn in Mexico. And until now Mexican citizens, with the
help of organisations like Greenpeace, have managed to prevent
agribusiness giants like Monsanto, DuPont and Dow AgroSciences
from gaining approval in Mexico for genetically engineered corn.
Imagine a democratic government adopting a legislation that
would instruct its own Department of Agriculture “to ignore any
judicial rulings that block the planting of crops that the court
determines to be illegal”(according to Senator Jon Tester D-MT).
In essence, this is what the US Congress has