About 200 farmers organizations in Mexico demanded the government
an unlimited moratorium on Genetically Modified corn.
By a communiqué spread in this capital the plaintiffs ask for more attention
to farmers and native agriculture and a special protection regime around
original corn as the Mexican people's main food.

They denounced speculation and privatizing practices of transnational
companies which are interested in spreading growing of GMOs in hectares
devoted to national production. Several sectors of the Mexican society have
demanded the government to keep a precaution police of GMO corn due to the
threat that modality means for the genetic integrity of this traditional
crop.

The farmers' organizations questioned that US and Europe are promoting this
technology with the Mexicans basic food while preserving wheat from its use
as basic cereal.
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