{"id":288,"date":"2011-04-27T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/two-mexican-states-ban-gm-corn.html"},"modified":"2011-04-27T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T13:00:00","slug":"two-mexican-states-ban-gm-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/two-mexican-states-ban-gm-corn.html","title":{"rendered":"Two Mexican states ban GM corn"},"content":{"rendered":"Many if not most pesticides are sprayed on crops genetically modified\nto resist them. Ban GM crops and reduce spraying. Two states in Mexico\nprove it can be done. Mexico, the country where corn was originally\ndomesticated could lead the way back to healthy agriculture.\n<p>\nAleira Lara reported in\nHealth Impact News Daily reported 5 March 2011 that\n<a href=\"http:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2011\/two-mexican-states-ban-gm-corn\/\">\nTwo Mexican states ban GM corn<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2011\/two-mexican-states-ban-gm-corn\/\">\n<img align=\"right\" border=0\nwidth=\"216\" height=\"152\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/mexico-bans-gm-corn.gif\"><\/a>\nThe Mexican States of Tlaxcala and Michoac\u00e1n each passed legislation\nbanning the planting of genetically modified corn to protect natural\nplants from further contamination of transgenes.  Together, both states\nproduce about a third of all of Mexico\u2019s corn. Below this story is a\ndetailed timeline of genetic contamination and legislation in Mexico.\n<\/blockquote>\nThe timeline is a long saga including intimidation of scientists\nattempting to research the problem.\nThe Mexican federal government caved in to big agro,\nbut two Mexican states are fighting back anyway.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many if not most pesticides are sprayed on crops genetically modified to resist them. Ban GM crops and reduce spraying. Two states in Mexico prove it can be done. Mexico, the country where corn was originally domesticated could lead the way back to healthy agriculture. Aleira Lara reported in Health Impact News Daily reported 5 [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,8,12,72,73],"tags":[2761,2762,611,2763,242,877,879,15,2766,147,179,2790,878,880],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-agrochemicals","category-politics","category-safety","category-science","tag-agriculture","tag-agrochemicals","tag-genetically-modified","tag-glysophate","tag-gm","tag-mexico","tag-michoacan","tag-monsanto","tag-politics","tag-research","tag-roundup","tag-science","tag-tlaxcala","tag-transgenes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-4E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}