Mexico bans GMO corn

A federal judge has ordered Mexico's Secretary of Agriculture SAGARPA (Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganaderia, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca, y Alimentacion), and Mexico's Secretay of the Environment SEMARNAT (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), to immediately "suspend all activities involving the planting of transgenic corn in the country and end the granting of permission for experimental and pilot commercial plantings", the Organic Consumer Association reports. 

The unprecedented ban was granted by the Twelfth Federal District Court for Civil Matters of Mexico City. Judge Jaime Eduardo Verdugo J. wrote the opinion and cited "the risk of imminent harm to the environment" as the basis for the decision. The decision was explained during a press conference in Mexico City by members of the community-based organizations that sued federal authorities and companies introducing transgenic maize into Mexico. The full article is available here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/