TWO AND A HALF CHEERS FOR MEXICO: MON(STER)SANTO DROPS LAWSUIT

July 10, 2024 / Joseph P. Farrell / No Comments

it's been a while since we've had good news on the Big Pharma/Big Agribusiness front, and we could certainly use some good news. Indeed there has been some, according to this story spotted and shared by M.W.  You may recall the previous President of Mexico, Senor Obrador, signed a presidential executive order banning Mon(ster)santo's pesticide ingredient, glyphosate, and its genetically modified corn, in Mexico. Mon(ster)santo immediately initiated legal action to block and overturn the degree.

According to this article, however, Mon(ster)santo has thrown in the towel:

Here's the kernel of the story (pun intended):

In what is being called a significant victory for Mexico, Monsanto has withdrawn its legal challenge against the 2020 presidential decree aimed at banning glyphosate and genetically modified (GM) corn for human consumption.

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Monsanto produces the herbicide Roundup, one of several glyphosate-based products that are used in the cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) such as Roundup Ready corn, cotton and soybeans. A common genetic modification makes crops resistant to glyphosate, allowing farmers to apply large amounts of the weed-killer to GMO crops.

Important as this victory over Mon(ster)santo is, I rather suspect the true significance of what just happened in Mexico lies not in the glyphosate part of the story, but in the GMO crops themselves. The article gives a hint of this by including the following picture and caption:

The caption beneath this picture reads "Mexico is home to dozens of native corn varieties. Roundup Ready corn, of course, is not one of them."

That is the real story here, for in holding to its ban on glyphosate, Mexico is really holding to a ban on GMO corn itself, and protecting those native varieties of corn and the heirloom seeds that goes with them. The article itself acknowledges that by dropping the legal actions, a victory for "food sovereignty" has been secured:

Noting that the legal victory over Monsanto underscores Mexico’s commitment to safeguarding public health and environmental integrity, Conahcyt vowed to continue its efforts to ensure that GM corn and glyphosate are removed from the Mexican food supply.

I do not expect, for a moment, that Mon(ster)santo, nor its parent company, Bayer, nor any of the other components of I.G. Farbensanto, will end their machinations to get their products reestablished in Mexico. There is a new (and dreadful) President in Mexico City who, judging from first impressions, might be easily induced into reinstating the products through another decree, with the proper blandishments. And I.G. Farbensanto can afford lots of blandishments. What it cannot afford is more lawsuits.

But what about north of the Rio Grande?  What lessons might Mexico's experience provide for a country overwhelmed with GMOs to the extent that virtually every product in a grocery store carries a label stating "this product contains a bio-engineered food ingredient," whatever that means, and the way I'm reading it, that might include bio-engineered waste products from some chimerical Frankenstein experiment involving monkey meat and human brain cells. After all, "they" have lied about pretty much everything else. from "you can keep your doctor and health plan" to "the new income tax is a very low percentage" and "Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone."

For one thing, don't expect any kind of executive order either from Bai Den Dzhao, or Orange Man Bad. Neither one seems overly concerned about food safety, and they were both on the quackcine bandwagon. Don't expect any relief from the Food and Drug Administration either. After all, if you've studied the history of the GMO "movement" and the machinations that companies like I.G. Farbensanto resorted to in order to get the doctrine of "substantial equivalence" adopted by that agency, you'll understand it - like most of the federal goobernment - is a lost cause.  It simply does not care at all about the people.  If it looks like corn and tastes like corn even after being drenched in torrents of glyphosate, then it's corn...

...except of course when it comes to the patentable seeds... you've still got to pay for those.

So what is to be done north of the border with Mexico, where there isn't nearly the sanity on the issue that is being displayed by the Mexican government?

One thing that must be done is that the states must step up, and impose their own - and hopefully stricter - food labeling laws, and hopefully, they will also pass laws requiring that non-GMO foods be "equally represented" at the local grocery store; that non-GMO food harvesting, planting, and consumption be somehow enshrined in law, perhaps even acknowledged as a natural right of the individual and bodily sovereignty. Granted, it's a thorny issue, fraught with pitfalls, but better to have the discussion than not, and the sooner the better, because judging by the amount of "bio-engineered food ingredients" I'm seeing on labels at the grocery store, "they" are doing everything in their power to get rid of natural food.  Having the discussion will raise the issue, at least, and in a time and place when people have already been awakened by the medical profession and the media about the quackcine lies and fabrications and frauds, this is the perfect time to revisit GMOs.

In the meantime, it used to be the case that the label "Product of Mexico" in the produce department at the grocery store was a warning label.  Now the "bio-engineered food ingredient" is.

See you on the flip side...

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".