Fact Checking: Was GMO Corn Banned in Mexico October 10?
I read a story on the Food Democracy Now site that led me to believe that transgenic corn had been outlawed in Mexico. I mentioned this in my talk at the March Against Monsanto San Diego in Balboa Park. Then, David Bronner, President of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap arrived. I mentioned this to David. I got signals to fact check. I have been doing that since. I have been in touch with Davon G.Peña, the professor at U of Washington who broke the story October 11 or so. Here is what I report so far:
UPDATE EDevon G. Peña
October 17, 2013
GEO Watch: Mexican judge suspends transgenic corn plantings [updated 10-17-13]
UPDATE: Upon further review of a second press release and correspondence with colleagues in Mexico City, San Diego, California, and Seattle,Washington, I have decided to use a different post headline. It is more accurate to state that a federal judge suspended transgenic corn plantings rather than to imply a nationwide ban. That may be a future possibility but is not the nature of this particular ruling. It was not my intent to mislead but the original post heading was careless.
However, the original and still unedited title of the post accurately reflects what the first press release made clear and that is simply that a federal judge in Mexico City issued a temporary restraining order involving the suspension of new plantings of transgenic maize as part of a fairly narrow legal opinion ruling to allow for the resolution of several pending lawsuits that will affect federal law on TRIPs, biosafety, and perhaps even the preservation of biocultural diversity in the Mexican Vavilov center. I will have another report on the pending lawsuits in the coming weeks.
There are also reports on growing demands by eco-activists for the Mexican EPA to use prosecutorial powers to pursue conscious violators of GMO plantings, but others argue for a shift in focus to the producers and purveyors of GMO seeds, especially since many farmers often do not realize they are planting transgenic crops. Reports suggest that some farmers are not informed because of purposeful mislabeling, the removal of labeling, or other factors that restrict their access to information, which in any case is unlikely to serve as a sufficient basis for farmer decisions on farm management, given interference and political subterfuge by market-steered interests.
~ Devon G. Peña
October 17, 2013
Judge rules that GMOs are imminent threat
MONSANTO, PIONEER, PROHIBITED FROM MARKETING TRANSGENIC SEED
Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | October 11, 2013
An October 10 press release with Mexico City byline announces the banning of genetically-engineered corn in Mexico. According to the group that issued the press release, La Coperacha, a federal judge has ordered Mexico’s SAGARPA (Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca, y Alimentación), which is Mexico’s Secretary of Agriculture, and SEMARNAT (Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales), which is equivalent of the EPA, 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 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 judge’s ruling also ruled that multinationals like Monsanto and Pioneer are banned from the release of transgenic maize in the Mexican countryside” as long as collective action lawsuits initiated by citizens, farmers, scientists, and civil society organizations are working their way through the judicial system.
The decision was explained during a press conference in Mexico City yesterday by members of the community-based organizations that sued federal authorities and companies introducing transgenic maize into Mexico. The group, Acción Colectiva, is led by Father Miguel Concha of the Human Rights Center Fray Francisco de Vittoria; Victor Suarez of ANEC (National Association of Rural Commercialization Entertprises); Dr. Mercedes Lopéz of Vía Organica; and Adelita San Vicente, a teacher and member of Semillas de Vida, a national organization that has been involved in broad-based social action projects to protect Mexico’s extraordinary status as a major world center of food crop biodiversity.
Some of the native maize varieties from Oaxaca, Mexico
According to the press release, Acción Colectiva [Collective Action] aims to achieve absolute federal declaration of the suspension of the introduction of transgenic maize in all its various forms – including experimental and pilot commercial plantings – in Mexico, “which is the birthplace of corn in the world”.
This ruling marks a milestone in the long struggle of citizen demands for a GMO-free country, acknowledged Rene Sanchez Galindo, legal counsel for the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, adding that the ruling has serious enforcement provisions and includes the possibility of “criminal charges for the authorities responsible for allowing the introduction of transgenic corn in our country”.
Father Miguel Concha said the judge’s decision reflects a commitment to respect the Precautionary Principle expressed in various international treaties and statements of human rights. Concha emphasized that the government is obliged to protect the human rights of Mexicans against the economic interests of big business.The lawsuit seeks to protect the “human right to save and use the agrobiodiversity of native landraces from the threats posed by GMO maize”, said the human rights advocate.
The class action lawsuit is supported by scientific evidence from studies that have – since 2001 – documented the contamination of Mexico’s native corn varieties by transgenes from GMO corn, principally the varieties introduced by Monsanto’s Roundup ready lines and the herbicide-resistant varieties marketed by Pioneer and Bayer CropScience. The collection of the growing body of scientific research on the introgression of transgenes into Mexico’s native corn genome has been a principal goal and activity of the national campaign, Sin Maíz, No Hay Paíz [Without Corn, There Is No Country].
ORIGINS OF THE ORIGINAL STORY
Judge rules that GMOs are imminent threat
MONSANTO, PIONEER, PROHIBITED FROM MARKETING TRANSGENIC SEED
Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | October 11, 2013
http://ejfood.blogspot.com/2013/10/geo-watch-mexico-bans-transgenic-corn.html
I FIRST READ THIS HERE ON THE FOOD DEMOCRACY NOW SITE
http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/oct/11/breaking_mexico_judge_rules_...
http://eleconomista.com.mx/industrias/2013/10/10/juez-federal-frena-liberacio...
I am on the trail of this story that I first read on the Food Democracy Now Site.
Here is one lead:
Juez federal frena liberación de maíz transgénico
This translates into English via Google translator
Federal Judge stops release of transgenic maize
http://eleconomista.com.mx/industrias/2013/10/10/juez-federal-frena-liberacio...
10:32 pm
October 13, 2013
FROM A STORY BY
10 Octubre, 2013 - 21:55Credito:
María del Pilar Martínez / El Economista
pmartinez@eleconomista.com.mx
Juez federal frena liberación de maíz transgénico
El Juzgado Federal XII de Distrito en Materia Civil, en el Distrito Federal, emitió una medida cautelar en la que ordena a la Secretaría de Agricultura (Sagarpa) y a la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente (Semarnat) abstenerse de realizar actividades tendientes a otorgar permisos de liberación al ambiente de maíz Genéticamente Modificado, prescindir de efectuar procedimientos para la liberación comercial, piloto y experimental al ambiente de Organismos Genéticamente Modificados (OGM) de maíz, y suspender el otorgamiento de permisos de liberación experimental, piloto y comercial de OGM de maíz.
Lo anterior, como parte de una demanda que interpuso un colectivo en defensa del maíz nacional y que se presentó el pasado 5 de julio bajo el argumento de que hay riesgo de daño inminente al medio ambiente.
Al respecto, el secretario de Agricultura, Enrique Martínez y Martínez, dijo en entrevista: “La Sagarpa siempre ha estado con un criterio claro en el sentido que nosotros vamos a tomar una decisión con la resolución de criterio científico, con un rigor científico”.
Expresó que los amparos y litigios están en manos de abogados, “ellos serán los que tomarán la decisión. Pero, hasta este momento, la Sagarpa no ha tomado ninguna decisión y estará siempre a escuchar las opiniones científicas. (Pero) por el momento, no más permisos”.
Las principales compañías que solicitan permisos al gobierno federal para cumplir con el proceso de liberación de maíz transgénico en el país (etapa experimental, piloto y comercial) son Monsanto, Syngenta, PHI México y Dow AgroSciences, quienes en este año han solicitado 43 permisos sin que hayan recibido una respuesta positiva.
La empresa Monsanto tenía programada una inversión de entre 70 millones y 100 millones de dólares en ciencia y tecnología en el país, prevista desde 2011 y hasta el 2015, mismo que pudiera incrementarse 200 millones de dólares, siempre y cuando se diera la entrada a la biotecnología, cosa que no ha ocurrido.
Al respecto, José Sarukhán Kermez, exrector de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) y coordinador general de la Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Conabio), dejó en claro ante legisladores del sector rural que no debe permitirse la introducción para uso comercial de maíz transgénico a México, porque es centro de origen de ese alimento básico.
En tanto, el presidente del Consejo Agropecuario de la Comarca Lagunera, Mario Valdés, consideró que es un grave error que se hayan frenado los permisos, ya que difícilmente se tendrá desarrollo tecnológico y será más complicado elevar la productividad del campo, sobre todo, ante los fenómenos climáticos.
Cabe destacar que México tiene proyectada una producción e 22.5 millones de toneladas de maíz blanco y amarillo; sin embargo, de este último, cada año se importan entre 8 y 9 toneladas.
Federal Judge stops release of transgenic maize
The XII Federal District Court for Civil Matters in the Federal District , issued a preliminary injunction which directs the Secretary of Agriculture ( Sagarpa ) and the Secretariat of Environment (SEMARNAT ) refrain from issuing permits activities to release the environment of genetically modified corn , be dispensed with for the commercial release procedures , experimental and control the environment of genetically modified organisms ( GMO ) corn , and suspend the release permitting experimental , pilot and commercial GMO corn .
This, as part of a lawsuit filed on behalf of a collective national corn which was filed on July 5 under the argument that there is risk of imminent harm to the environment.
In this regard , the Secretary of Agriculture , Enrique Martinez y Martinez , said in an interview : " The Sagarpa always been a clear criterion in the sense that we are going to make a decision with the resolution of scientific judgment , with scientific rigor ."
He said that the protections and disputes are handled by lawyers, "they will be those who will make the decision . But , until now , the Sagarpa has not taken any decision and will always listen to scientific advice . ( But ) at the moment, no more permits " .
Leading companies seeking permits the federal government to comply with the process of transgenic corn in the country ( pilot phase , pilot and commercial ) are Monsanto , Syngenta , Dow AgroSciences PHI Mexico and who have applied this year 43 permits without who have received a positive response.
Monsanto Company had planned an investment of between 70 million and $ 100 million in science and technology in the country , scheduled from 2011 until 2015 , the same that would increase $ 200 million , as long as you give the entrance to the biotechnology , which has not happened.
In this regard , Jose Sarukhan Kermez exrector National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM ) and general coordinator of the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity ( Conabio ) , made it clear to lawmakers from rural sector should not be allowed introduction to commercial use of transgenic corn in Mexico , because it is the center of origin of this staple .
Meanwhile, the president of the Agricultural Council of the Laguna Region , Mario Valdes , considered it a serious error that permits have slowed since hardly technological development will be more difficult to raise land productivity , especially , to climatic phenomena .
Note that Mexico has a projected production and 22.5 million tonnes of white and yellow corn , but the latter , are imported each year from 8 to 9 tons .
COMMENTS PRINTED WITH THE ORIGINAL STORY
Judge rules that GMOs are imminent threat
MONSANTO, PIONEER, PROHIBITED FROM MARKETING TRANSGENIC SEED
Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | October 11, 2013
http://ejfood.blogspot.com/2013/10/geo-watch-mexico-bans-transgenic-corn.html
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Anonymous October 12, 2013 at 11:14 PM
This will get overturned. This ruling was made in ignorance, as GE corn poses no threat. Interestingly, corn, as we know it is modified from a grass, by man.
Devon G. PeñaOctober 13, 2013 at 6:17 AM
This may very well be overturned but that has nothing to do with a ruling based on "ignorance" - it was based on an assessment of the established scientific evidence that empirically demonstrates the introgression of transgenes into the genome of native maize. Yes, corn was modified from wild relatives but there is a huge difference between cultural selection within species and rDNA (gene splicing) technologies that cross species boundaries. The modification of wild relatives of domesticated crops is based on cultural practices that involve single-species events. Transgenic crops involve a splicing together of bacterial, viral, and plant genetic materials in a manner that would never occur with conventional plant breeding. They are not equivalents as any honest plant geneticist will DE CLARE.
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Only a b***kh**dOctober 12, 2013 at 5:55 PM
Was the press release mentioned in the article followed up on by any reputable news sources? I can't find any news article covering this rather momentous judicial decision other than at sites with an anti-GMO agenda, or sites that we know to be unreliable like Natural News (and these mostly seem to reprint the above article, or to be based on the above article). Perhaps my google skills are not all they should be, but I'd appreciate it if someone would share a link to an article or articles (English or Spanish) covering this judicial decision.
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Devon G. PeñaOctober 13, 2013 at 6:24 AM
The coverage in Mexico in Spanish is only now picking up. You can find many reliable sources by using the search string, "Maíz transgenico octubre 2013". That yield dozens of authentic news sites in Mexico (in Spanish). As for USA media coverage: Empirical studies demonstrate that the corporate media panders to Monsanto and their corporate ilk (as do many peer reviewed scientific journals) and so bad news typically becomes no news until someone like Democracy Now! picks it up. I am also monitoring the news cycle and will happily report on any results I produce. Readers are encouraged to do the same.
Devon G. Peña October 13, 2013 at 6:26 AM
Two reputable sources (the first a weekly magazine and the second a daily newspaper) in Mexico to consult on this developing story:
Ordenan suspender siembra y comercialización de maíz transgénico en México (Proceso, 10 de octubre de 2013)
Juzgado federal frena liberación al ambiente de maíz transgénico (la Jornada, 10 de octubre de 2013)
SOURCES
Ordenan suspender siembra y comercialización de maíz transgénico en México
October 10, 2013 by Xavier Lannes0 Comments
Activistas de Greenpeace escalan la Estela de Luz; protestan contra el maíz transgénico.
Foto: Xinhua / Pedro Mera
PUEBLA, Pue. (apro).- El Juzgado Federal Décimo Segundo de Distrito en Materia Civil del Distrito Federal emitió una medida precautoria en la que ordena la suspensión de permisos a trasnacionales como Monsanto y Pionner, entre otras, para la siembra “experimental”, liberación y comercialización de maíz transgénico en México.
La medida fue dictada dentro de la Acción Colectiva que el pasado 5 de julio promovieron 53 científicos, intelectuales, agricultores, artistas y activistas, así como 22 organizaciones ambientalistas, productivas y de derechos humanos.
El abogado Romualdo Hernández Naranjo, integrante de la organización “Colectivas, AC”, explicó que el mayor logro con esa resolución es que el Poder Judicial ha aceptado finalmente entrar al debate de fondo sobre el perjuicio o beneficio que causan los maíces transgénicos al país.
“Anteriormente ya habíamos intentado distintos medios jurídicos y nunca habíamos podido lograr la apertura del debate de fondo, y esto es lo realmente trascendente de esta medida cautelar”, precisó.
Señaló que si bien se suspenden ahora los permisos, la cancelación definitiva “va a ser hasta el momento en que se discuta el fondo y se le exponga a la sociedad los beneficios de los transgénicos o los daños que pueden acarrear”.
De acuerdo con el abogado, la demanda se presentó bajo el argumento de proteger el derecho humano a la biodiversidad que tienen todos los mexicanos, máxime cuando México, al ser el centro de origen del maíz, tiene un reservorio de biodiversidad de este cultivo que es patrimonio de la humanidad.
Lo que sigue en la Acción Colectiva, explicó, sería la etapa conciliatoria, pero de antemano se sabe que los demandantes no llegarán a ningún acuerdo con la Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (Semarnat) ni con la Secretaría de Agricultura, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación (Sagarpa), y tampoco con Monsanto, por lo que el proceso continuará a la etapa de pruebas.
En esa fase, agregó, las partes entrarían en un debate judicial en el que cada una presentaría a sus peritos para aportar pruebas de sus argumentos a favor o en contra del maíz genéticamente modificado.
Hernández Naranjo indicó que por parte de los promoventes de la Acción Colectiva se presentarán científicos que ya han emitido estudios en los que han demostrado que los transgénicos son perjudiciales para la salud de los consumidores, para el medio ambiente y para la conservación de los maíces originales.
Por su parte, el antropólogo Julio Glockner manifestó que en la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) promoverán encuentros de expertos en el tema para abrir el debate en distintos ámbitos sobre la importancia de la defensa del principal alimento para los mexicanos.
En tanto, Alonso Aco Cortés, integrante de la agrupación “Serranos Unidos en Resistencia Indígena”, adelantó que promoverán reuniones con agricultores de la entidad para informarles sobre esta acción que se ha iniciado en defensa del maíz.
>>>Leer más: Proceso>>>
GABRIELA HERNÁNDEZ
10 DE OCTUBRE DE 2013
DESTACADO
Activistas de Greenpeace escalan la Estela de Luz; protestan contra el maíz transgénico. Foto: Xinhua / Pedro Mera
Activistas de Greenpeace escalan la Estela de Luz; protestan contra el maíz transgénico.
http://www.saludesencial.org/blog/ordenan-suspender-siembra-y-comercializacio...
TRANSLATION WITH GOOGLE TRANSLATOR
Ordered suspend planting and marketing of transgenic corn in Mexico
Greenpeace activists scale the Estela de Luz ; protest against GM maize .
Photo: Xinhua / Pedro Mera
PUEBLA , Puebla . ( ap ) . - The Federal Court Twelfth District Civil Federal District issued an injunction ordering the suspension of permits to multinationals like Monsanto and Pioneer , among others, for planting "experimental" release and marketing of transgenic corn in Mexico .
The measure was passed within the Collective Action July 5 promoted 53 scientists, intellectuals , farmers , artists and activists , as well as 22 environmental organizations , productive and human rights .
Romualdo Hernandez Naranjo lawyer , member of the organization " Collective , AC " , said the greatest achievement with this resolution is that the judiciary has finally agreed to enter the debate on the harm or benefit transgenic maize causing the country .
"Previously we had tried different legal means and never been able to achieve the opening of substantive debate , and this is what is really important in this precautionary measure ," he said .
He noted that while the permits are suspended now , the final cancellation "will be up to the time discussing the background and you expose to society the benefits of GMOs or damage that may result ."
According to the lawyer , the suit was filed on the grounds of protecting the human right to biodiversity are all Mexicans , especially as Mexico , as the center of origin of maize , has a reservoir of biodiversity of this crop is World Heritage .
What follows in Collective Action , he explained, would be the conciliation stage , but it is known beforehand that the plaintiffs did not reach any agreement with the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT ) and the Ministry of Agriculture , Rural Development , fisheries and Food ( Sagarpa ) , nor with Monsanto , so the process will continue to the testing stage .
At that stage , he said , the parties enter into a legal debate in which each present their experts to provide evidence of their arguments for or against genetically modified corn .
Hernandez Naranjo said by proponents of Collective Action will be presented scientists who have issued studies that have shown that GMOs are harmful to the health of consumers, the environment and conservation of the original corn .
For its part, the anthropologist Julio Glockner said at the Autonomous University of Puebla ( UAP ) promote meetings of experts in the field to open the debate in different areas about the importance of defending the main food for Mexicans.
Meanwhile, Aco Alonso Cortes , a member of the group " Indigenous Resistance Serranos States " , said that meetings with farmers promote the entity to inform them of the action that has been initiated in defense of maize.
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GABRIELA HERNANDEZ
October 10, 2013
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http://enlinea.jornada.com.mx/ultimas/2013/10/10/124210436-juzgado-federal-fr...
Juzgado federal frena liberación al ambiente de maíz transgénico
Ordena a Semarnat y Sagarpa no otorgar permisos a empresas como Monsanto y Pionner, en tanto no se resuelvan recursos en contra.
Angélica Enciso
Publicado: 10/10/2013 12:42
México, DF. Un juzgado federal ordenó a las secretarías de Medio Ambiente y Agricultura no otorgar permisos de liberación al ambiente de maíz transgénico. Con esto se impide a las empresas como Monsanto y Pionner liberar maíces transgénicos en tanto se resuelve la acción colectiva que interpusieron 53 organizaciones y ciudadanos.
En conferencia de prensa el padre Miguel Concha del Centro de Derechos humanos Fray Francisco de Vitoria dijo que con esta acción colectiva se reconoce no el derecho jurídico de los demandantes sino el derecho legítimo.
La acción colectiva se presentó en el juzgado 12 de Distrito en demanda de un medio ambiente sano y por la diversidad biológica de los maíces el 5 de julio, explicó el abogado René Sánchez Galindo. El juez estableció esta medida cautelar, en tanto sigue el proceso de la acción colectiva.
TRANLATED WITH GOOGLE TRANSLATOR
Directs Sagarpa SEMARNAT and not issue permits to companies like Monsanto and Pioneer , while resources are resolved against.
Angelica Enciso
Published : 10/10/2013 12:42
Mexico , DF . A federal judge ordered the ministries of Environment and Agriculture does not issue permits for environmental release of transgenic maize. This prevents companies like Monsanto and Pioneer GM maize release pending the outcome of the collective action that brought 53 organizations and citizens.
At a press conference Father Miguel Concha Human Rights Center Fray Francisco de Vitoria said that this collective action is recognized no legal right of the plaintiffs but the legitimate right .
Collective action was filed in court District 12 to demand a healthy environment and the biodiversity of maize on July 5 , said the lawyer Rene Sanchez Galindo. The judge ruled this precautionary measure , as is the process of collective action .
EDITORIAL
No transgenic maize
to International Day against Monsanto , called by civil organizations and environmentalists, managed to score massive show of support yesterday hundreds of cities in over 50 countries around the world: United States , Argentina , Mexico , Japan, South Africa , Germany and Australia , among many other nations.
Significantly, this massive social mobilization , and practically simultaneous international has not been addressed on this occasion against any State or financial institution , but against a particular entity that holds , moreover , a hegemonic position in the field of food production and biotechnology - particularly in the development and commercialization of GM maize - , and the enormous power and scope is placed in a position threatening food for populations and biodiversity .
In the case of our country , the correlate of this rejection is the permit application , made by the companies Monsanto and DuPont - Pioneer the Mexican government to produce transgenic maize on a large scale for commercial purposes without restrictions , with the assumption order to contain the growing imports of grain in the country.
Such a request is inappropriate . As documented by various scientific publications in the world such crops is a risk factor for the health of populations and biodiversity , to the extent that its consumption is causally related to different conditions to vital organs in while its production is linked to irreversible contamination of native species in different environments.
Examples abound : last year a study by researchers at the University of Caen , France , documented the appearance of cancerous tumors in rats fed a GM maize variety produced by Monsanto. Three years earlier, the International Journal of Biological Sciences published an academic article showing that three varieties of genetically modified corn produced by U.S. food multinational , can cause damage to the kidneys , liver and heart.
The lack of sufficient evidence on the safety of such food crops should be enough for the authorities to impede their unrestricted , large-scale production . But there are also economic weight , and the fact that the free marketing of genetically modified grains , far from being a solution to increasing food dependency , dealing a further blow to the traditional producers , already punished before rising imports of that and other staples in general place the production in the hands of a handful of companies , three of which , Monsanto , Syngenta and DuPont - Pioneer , control more than 90 percent of the market , and sharpen , in this way , loss of self-sufficiency of the country in the field of food.
If it is true that fighting hunger is a priority of the current federal government , the starting point must be the recognition of the national authorities, to the relationship between this scourge and food policy model that has been imposed on the set of the population , which is based on an indiscriminate opening of markets and now also in the conversion of the right to food in private business of a few companies .
Correcting the problem requires , therefore, the design and implementation of measures to ensure food self- starting maintain or extend the restrictions to GM crops ; reverse the scandalous increase in food imports , and refocus government support to small farmers.
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2013/05/26/edito
BIO NOTE MATERIALS FOR
Devon G. Peña
http://depts.washington.edu/aes/faculty/dpena.php
Devon G. Peña
Professor of Anthropology and Chicano Studies
Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin), 1983
Contact Info:
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Publications
The Terror of the Machine: Technology, Work, Gender and Ecology in the U.S.-Mexico Border (Austin: CMAS Books/University of Texas Press, 1997), Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book" selection in 1998 and "Honorable Mention - 1998" from the Gustavus Meyer Center for the Study of Bigotry
Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998)
Tierra y vida: Mexican Americans and the Environment. Volume 4, The Mexican American Experience, series editor, Adela de la Torre (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, forthcoming summer 2002).
Teaching and Research Interests
Agroecology, environmental justice, environmental history and ecological politics, social movements, transborder communities and transnationalism, and complexity theory in ecosystem sciences.
Geographic focus includes the U.S.-Mexico border region, Chiapas, the Upper Rio Grande watershed (New Mexico and Colorado), and Taiwan.
Courses
Comparative Social Movements: Mexico and the United States
Culture, Ecology, Politics
Cultures and Politics of Environmental Justice
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STORIES IN THE MEDIA ON THIS
http://nsnbc.me/2013/10/13/mexico-hawaii-ban-gmo-people-worldwide-march-monsa...
LINKS
Following this story: sites to follow:
Organic Consumers Association
http://www.organicconsumers.org
EVENTS IN HAWAII RELATED TO A BIOTECH BAN ON GROWING TRANSGENIC FOOD
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/16/kauai-gmo-hearing_n_4108914.html
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October 17, 2013
MONSANTO, PIONEER, PROHIBITED FROM MARKETING TRANSGENIC SEED
MONSANTO, PIONEER, PROHIBITED FROM MARKETING TRANSGENIC SEED
10 Octubre, 2013 - 21:55Credito:
María del Pilar Martínez / El Economista
Devon G. Peña
Devon G. Peña