#Mexican #President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is moving forward with a plan to limit #imports of #GeneticallyModified #corn from the U.S., despite the looming #threat of a formal #trade #dispute

The #plant at the center of the #controversial #policy — corn — is both a symbol of #Mexico ’s #cuisine and #indigenous #cultures , and also the biggest #CashCrop in the #UnitedStates .

https://investigatemidwest.org/2023/03/15/united-states-mexico-at-odds-over-mexicos-ban-of-genetically-modified-corn/

United States, Mexico at odds over Mexico’s ban of genetically modified corn

MEXICO CITY — Anet Aguilar traces her passion for corn back to her grandmother.  In the Mexican state of Baja California where Aguilar lived with her grandmother, flour tortillas were popular. Her grandmother Feliza Ramirez was from Mexico City, though, where she grew up milling corn in her neighborhood’s shared mill and forming it into […]

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@tilvids this bothers me too. old-time farmers could grow all they and their neighbors needed but always had a #cashCrop or #marketGarden that was sold to buy stuff. instances need to identify a sponsor or something. large organization, red cross, libraries, churches and governments etc that have an income stream need to #sponsor the technical folks that do the work. instance owners are like care givers to the internet.