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Tractor caravan to Mexico City farmer protest demands "Mexico Free of Transgenics". Credit: Enrique Perez S./ANEC CAMBRIDGE MA, Feb 24 2021 (IPS) - Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year’s Eve decree to phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn. His administration sent an even stronger aftershock two weeks later, clarifying that the government would also phase out GM corn imports in three years and the ban would include not just corn for human consumption but yellow corn destin...

You are called on if we have order, everyone got a chance to ask questions, and it was those that were disruptive, it was not a lot of people, just 10 or 15 people but they can disrupt a huge crowd. >> there are reports that the people were representatives of groups like moveon.org, is that your understanding? >>guest: yes, i recognized the president of the former group acorn there, and there is a new group called organize now which i believe she a leader in and some others who are leaders. i have seen these people before they came to my open house when i opened the district office back in jan...