Some of it was just populism - Mexico buys $3 billion worth of GMO corn per year from the US and the way to encourage more domestic corn sales is to ban it in the use of things people want, like tortillas.
Friends of the Earth and other progressives who have consistently opposed science for decades spent millions of dollars doing publicity campaigns against GMOs, but all experts need to know is that the last country to listen to left-wing white humanities majors when it comes to food, Sri Lanka, nearly had their government overthrown due to food riots after they banned science and costs skyrocketed. They found that “Mexico’s measures are not based on science” and that banning it would violate the trade treaty at a risky time - returning President Trump has already signaled that any country that penalizes trade with America is getting it back, and he was looking at Trudeau and Pardo.
What Mexican farmers and scientists feared; crop rot caused by "organic" alternatives to science like the fungus Trichoderma they claim works. Image: A Pfordt, University of Göttingen
Mexico had already reacted poorly to their government's decision to ban GMOs and weedkillers. Meat prices have skyrocketed as people began to hoard food - the public clearly read about Sri Lanka also - and that added on to the Biden-type inflation that has plagued the country.
This may have been a political stunt in all ways. Mexican President Pardo is a scientist and she can't expect the public to trust 10,000 climate scientists if she says 500,000 biologists are frauds being bought off by corporations. That kind of thinking has been all too common among progressives, and it is why the flip-flop of some on vaccines looks so ridiculous to moderates.
Congratulations to the people of Mexico for knowing more science than 100% of wealthy lawyers running US environmental groups.
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