Environmental for Food Justice

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 i...