**UPDATE 3/6/2025: After five hours of deliberation, with a vote of 97 in favor and 16 opposing, the Mexican Senate approves the constitutional reform to ban GMOs. In a closing statement the director of the Morena party Adán Augusto López Hernández stated, “We must continue protecting our country, we will not fail.”

The Sin Maíz No Hay País (No Corn No Country) campaign, with the help of our sister organizations Organic Consumers Association and Vía Orgánica, and other activists, organizations, politicians, scientists, environmentalists, lawyers and concerned citizens in Mexico, has achieved a significant victory against genetically modified (GM) corn, with the Chamber of Deputies approving a constitutional reform to ban GM corn. This reform prioritizes the protection of biodiversity, food sovereignty, and traditional crops, and promotes the use of native seeds. The move is a result of years of activism, scientific research, and perseverance by organizations, lawyers, researchers, farmers, environmentalists, and concerned citizens.

The road to this victory has been long and challenging. In 2018, the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) tested samples of MASECA corn flour and found high levels of glyphosate and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In December 2020, a presidential decree was issued seeking to ban GM corn for human consumption in Mexico by 2024. This caused a tremendous and fast reaction in the US market, after all, Mexico is the biggest buyer of the corn grown in the United States, 90 percent of which is genetically engineered. The US government argued that the decree was in violation of the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement).

Despite this setback, Mexico’s civil society continued to push for a ban on GM corn. In February 2025, the Chamber of Deputies approved the constitutional reform, which will now be sent to the Senate for final approval. This move is seen as a significant step forward for Mexico’s food sovereignty and its ability to protect its native corn varieties. 

Mercedes López, International Director of Vía Orgánica responded to this important victory: 

“In order to defend the cultural biodiversity and food sovereignty of the people of Mexico, the modification of two constitutional articles is underway: Article 4, which seeks to protect Mexico as the center of origin and permanent diversity of corn, an element of national identity, and which establishes its cultivation free of genetic modifications; as well as Article 27, which protects and promotes traditional crops with native seeds through the milpa system.

This initiative – which was approved by the Chamber of Deputies and will be analyzed in the coming days by the Senate of the Republic – aims to prohibit the planting of genetically modified corn, prioritize the protection of biodiversity and food sovereignty, defend the milpa system and promote traditional crops and native seeds. Mexican corn has been developed for 10,000 years by indigenous and Afro-American populations to give Mexico and the world 64 breeds and thousands of varieties of corn that are used by the population as food, compost, medicine, sacred rites, handicrafts and construction. Transnational companies such as Bayer-Monsanto, Syngenta and Dow Agrosciences see corn purely as a commodity to abuse and control. The peasant communities and native peoples who continue to plant native corn and milpa (a traditional and holistic system of growing food) have been fundamental, as well as various networks such as the national campaign Sin Maíz No Hay Paíz, of which Vía Orgánica, Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International are an integral part.”

Learn more about this inspiring victory

Read ‘GM Corn and Glyphosate Science: Documents From Mexico-U.S. Trade Dispute’

Mexico is taking action to protect its rich reserve of native corn varieties from the genetic pollution of GMO corn. A new constitutional amendment prohibits the planting of genetically modified corn, prioritizes the protection of biodiversity and food sovereignty, defends the milpa system, and promotes traditional crops and native seeds.

Our Mexican organization, Vía Orgánica, led by Mercedes López, has played a fundamental role in achieving this important resolution. Mercedes has worked tirelessly alongside other activists, lawyers and politicians on the “Sin Maíz No Hay País” (Without Corn There Is No Country) campaign, a powerful rallying cry, uniting peasant, indigenous, scientific, and social organizations in a shared movement to protect non-GMO corn, the very foundation of Mexico’s food system and cultural heritage.

Unfortunately, the U.S. has been fighting Mexico every step of the way. In December, it won a trade dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) against Mexico’s restrictions on imports of genetically engineered corn from the United States.

Instead, the U.S. should be following Mexico’s lead.

TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to Ban GMOs!

Max Goldberg, Organic Insider:

“At the end of December and just before President Trump took office, Congress passed a last-minute spending package to prevent a government shutdown and extended the Farm Bill for another year. Yet, funding for vital organic programs was cut.

Though the cost is minuscule in relation to the overall Farm Bill, just over $10 million per year, the damage to our industry will be severe. As per the National Organic Coalition, the organic programs left unfunded include the following:

* The Organic Certification Cost Share Program: Without it, certification costs will increase significantly in 2025.

* The Organic Data Initiative: Without this program, the USDA will be hampered in its efforts to provide organic producers with the critical data they need to meet growing consumer demand and remain competitive.

* The Organic Certification Trade and Tracking Program: Its defunding, which cancels the purchase of vital technology infrastructure to prevent fraud, will hamper the USDA’s ability to safeguard the integrity of the organic label and enforce the new Strengthening Organic Enforcement (SOE) rule.

‘Congress’s failure to fund these essential programs is a short-sighted decision that jeopardizes the future of organic agriculture in the United States,’ said Abby Youngblood, executive director of the National Organic Coalition.”


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TAKE ACTION: Want Better Food? Demand a Better Farm Bill!

University of Edinburgh reports:

“A study which examined the lifestyles of hundreds of older adults found that those who spent time gardening had better cognitive function in later life than those who did not.

Importantly, this was the case even when accounting for a person’s socio-economic status, time spent in education, childhood cognitive ability, health, and overall level of physical activity in older age.

Researchers say the findings provide some of the first evidence that gardening activity in older age is associated with small, but detectable, cognitive benefits over the life-course.
On average, the 280 who frequently or sometimes gardened showed greater lifetime improvement in cognitive ability compared with those who never gardened or rarely did so. Between the ages of 79 and 90, cognitive ability, including memory, problem solving, and word fluency, generally declined across the board, but the earlier advantage of gardeners endured.”



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We’re thrilled to share a major victory with you:

Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies has approved a constitutional reform to prohibit the planting of genetically modified corn!

This achievement is a testament to the power of dedicated activism, research, and community engagement.

The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and our sister organization, Vía Orgánica, are proud to have played a key role in this movement. Our research, including testing samples of Maseca white and yellow corn flour in 2018, revealed alarming levels of glyphosate and GMOs. This crucial research, combined with our work with the Sin Maíz No Hay País (No Corn No Country) campaign, has been fundamental to the campaign. It has been a long and challenging road, to defend the milpa system and promote traditional crops and native seeds, and we celebrate this victory with open hearts.

But our work is far from over.

Your donation will help us strengthen our campaign and meet the challenge to ban GMOs in the U.S., we have been working long and hard on this issue for many years and are newly inspired with the historic victory in Mexico!

Mexico is in good company taking action against GMOs. There are 38 other countries that have done so as well.

We need to do the same, to regenerate America’s rapidly degenerating GMO food system.

Please consider donating now, to fuel our work for healthier ways to farm and grow food.

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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola:

“STORY-AT-A-GLANCE

* Just like plants, you need sunlight to thrive, as there’s a biological mechanism in your body that transforms sunlight into cellular energy

* When the sun’s rays touch your skin, your body captures the red and near-infrared light and converts them into electrons. Your body then uses these electrons to feed the electron transport chain and create ATP in your mitochondria

* Reductive stress is a biological mechanism that could be hampering your ability to create sufficient cellular energy. If going out in the sun makes you feel worse, you may need to first resolve reductive stress in your body

* Grounding to the earth and using methylene blue can help get rid of the excessive electrons that have accumulated in your mitochondria. However, it is crucial to address the root causes of reductive stress

* Beyond vitamin D production, sunlight exposure helps optimize melatonin production and anchors the circadian rhythm for better sleep, making it a crucial but underrated factor in overall health maintenance”

Learn why sunlight is the unrecognized nutrient you cannot live without

Todd Gagne, Wildfire Labs Substack:

“In 2021, Lisa Chen, a software engineer, started a new weight-loss medication. Then, something interesting happened at her local coffee shop, her employer’s healthcare costs, and the global economy.

In six months, Lisa stopped buying her daily morning muffin, causing the coffee shop to lose $600 in annual revenue from one customer. Within a year, she canceled her beer-of-the-month subscription and stopped ordering late-night DoorDash. By 2023, her grocery bill dropped 40%, alcohol spending fell 85%, and impulse Amazon purchases plunged 60%.

Lisa is one person. Her story will become the story of hundreds of millions. That’s where this becomes intriguing.

Economic revolutions rarely come from expected sources. Despite the AI hype, the biggest transformation of our lifetime might come from diabetes drugs.”

Learn why this is more important than you may realize

Lynne Peeples writes for The Guardian:

“The DST debate is heating back up. But all this chatter is, once again, largely missing the point–an omission particularly glaring for an administration that claims to be seeking greater efficiency.

The time displayed on our walls and wrists carries only the meaning we attach. If we want to rein in our nation’s spending, if we want to make America healthy again, then we should turn attention to our inner clocks. For starters, we should nudge companies and schools to relax or revise rigid schedules – rather than, for example, reverting to pre-pandemic in-office requirements.

We are all born with inner clocks, better known as our circadian rhythms. These biological drumbeats sync with our planet’s patterns to drive our bodies to do the right things at the right times: fall asleep, digest food, and fight pathogens, to name a few vital functions. But our internal timekeepers don’t all tick the same. Your 7am might be my 2pm.”

Read about how a lot of money could be saved, and illness avoided, if we dropped the traditional one-schedule-fits-all

By Errol Schweizer, Forbes:

“Precision fermentation is a relatively new food technology that is rapidly entering the mainstream. Products such as milk protein, animal fats, collagen, honey, lobster, egg whites and more are receiving hundreds of millions of investor dollars. They are being rapidly commercialized for the mass market without the raising and killing of animals.

These products are being marketed to a young consumer base that wants sustainable, climate-friendly foods that buck the system and promise a better tomorrow. But what should consumers being asking about this new wave of food technologies?



-What is in the cell culture medium and what is it derived from? The microorganisms need to eat if they are to grow and produce sellable commodities, like any type of livestock.

-Is the nutrient bath derived from corn or soy, typically genetically modified to withstand high dosages of herbicides?



-How much waste material is produced by such microorganisms relative to sellable product? This includes metabolic wastes, as well as the leftover steep once the spent microbes and consumable material have been filtered out.


-How does the energy and resource usage of such products compare to competing animal-based items?


-Who holds the patents or intellectual properties?

-How much of this technology is open sourced?”

Read the answers to these questions more

TAKE ACTION: Ban New GMO Frankenfoods Made with Synthetic Biology (a.k.a “Precision Fermentation”)

Kate Nelson writes for Civil Eats:

“For centuries, Native communities have focused on the collective rather than the individual. Here’s what we can learn from them.

The notion of “mutual aid” is relatively new in name, but it mirrors a concept that’s been prioritized by Indigenous cultures since time immemorial: a focus on the collective. A foundational value among Native American communities, it stands in stark contrast to America’s modern hyper-fixation on the individual.

This idea of reciprocity extends far beyond humans, beginning in the natural world around us. It is a worldview informed by abundance and mutual existence—not scarcity and competition—where gratitude trumps greed. At a time of pervasive extraction and exploitation, we might take a moment to understand the importance of this worldview, still practiced the world over.

‘In a traditional Anishinaabe economy, the land is the source of all goods and services, which are distributed in a kind of gift exchange: One life is given in support of another,’ Potawatomi botanist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer writes in her newest book, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. ‘The focus is on supporting the good of the people, not only an individual. Receiving a gift from the land is coupled to attached responsibilities of sharing, respect, reciprocity, and gratitude.’”


Read how to reject this extractive, “scarcity” thinking, as Kimmerer reminds us, is to make way for another kind of economy

By Al Rabine & Scott Faber, Environmental Working Group (EWG):

“More than 40 local laws in place to protect communities from the toxic weedkiller glyphosate could be swept away if Republican state officials get their way. They’ve petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to “preempt,” or block, any such bans.

The petition, filed by GOP attorneys general from 11 states, broadly asks the agency to block any state and local pesticide laws. If the Trump EPA grants the request, it would prevent communities from not only banning or restricting glyphosate, an herbicide linked to cancer, but also tackling other potentially harmful pesticides.

These limits on the use of certain pesticides help to protect schoolchildren, farmworkers and people living near farms from the health threats of these toxic chemicals. Pesticides can drift through the air, exposing people to a greater risk of cancer or other harms.”



Read how granting the Republicans’ petition would eliminate this important right to keep states empowered for tackling pesticides’ risks, and why the EPA should deny the petition

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