#mexico

eileen@despora.de

New Scientific Analyses Underpin Mexico’s Restrictions on GM Corn and Glyphosate Due to Health Risks

- Organic Consumers
Whatever the ruling, Mexico’s new President Claudia Sheinbaum has said her government will not allow the cultivation of GM corn. Sheinbaum also recently announced plans to try to place GM corn restrictions in Mexico’s constitution; “this is the best defense we have for biodiversity as well as for our health,” she said.

Mexico’s stand for food sovereignty and the scientific evidence they gathered to support their case have worldwide relevance, as nations across the Global South grapple with seed laws that would open the doors to GM foods. It also comes at a time when U.S. consumers are losing faith in the safety of our food supply, according to a recent Gallup poll.

https://organicconsumers.org/new-scientific-analyses-underpin-mexicos-restrictions-on-gm-corn-and-glyphosate-due-to-health-risks/ #Mexico #GM-Corn #Glyphosate #HealthRisks

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

Being a political humorist should be one of Vincente's credits.


Bob the Traveler - 2024-12-02 03:48:00 GMT

Vicente Fox Quesada was inaugurated as president of #Mexico OTD in 2000, in Mexico's first peaceful transfer of executive power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election cromwell-intl.com/travel/mexic… #travel

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

Image/photoYogthos wrote the following post Mon, 07 Oct 2024 23:40:24 +0200

Sheinbaum announces plan to hire 20,000 doctors and nurses to visit every single elderly and disabled person’s home regularly, providing them with free medical attention.

A census will be carried out in the coming months, and the program will start by February 2025.

https://mexicobusiness.news/health/news/claudia-sheinbaum-charts-new-direction-mexicos-healthcare

Part of #socialism in #Mexico

psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://mas.to/@markwyner/113200418204781481 markwyner@mas.to - George Lucas got the idea for Princess Leia's iconic "space buns" from Mexican revolutionary women. Specifically Clara de la Rocha, a total badass.

Clara's descendant recounted:

"She crossed a river on horseback…and was able to take out a power station in order to allow the rebel forces to attack during night without being seen."

Just like Leia, eh?

On Clara:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara_de_la_Rocha

Lucas interview:
https://time.com/archive/6911956/so-whats-the-deal-with-leias-hair/

#HispanicHeritageMonth #Mexico #History #StarWars #PrincessLeia

claralistensprechen3rd@friendica.myportal.social

Our wars add greenhouse gases by the tons.

DoomsdaysCW - 2024-07-11 19:31:16 GMT

EU climate service: Earth records 12 straight months of record high temperaturesBy Clyde Hughes, UPI

July 8 (UPI) -- "June 2024 was hotter than any June previously on record, leaving people exposed to life-threatening temperatures and more extreme weather, the European Union's #Copernicus #ClimateChange Service said Monday.

"Copernicus researchers found that temperatures worldwide each month for the past 12 months were 1.5 degrees Celsius greater than the average before the #preindustrial age.

"The report said temperatures in Europe were higher on average than in the southeast regions. It added the countries and regions with the hottest temperatures outside of #Europe were eastern #Canada, the western #UnitedStates, western #Mexico, #Brazil, northern #Siberia, the #MiddleEast, northern #Africa, and western #Antarctica.

"'Even if this specific streak of extremes ends at some point, we are bound to see new records being broken as the climate continues to warm,' said Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, according to The Guardian.

"'This is inevitable unless we stop adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the oceans.'

"The report said its review of the oceans, air temperatures were higher than average in the #AtlanticOcean and #IndianOcean along with most of the #PacificOcean. Temperatures were below average in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean and smaller regions around the world, like the Bering Sea.

"Copernicus uses measurements from various sources, including airplanes, weather stations, ships and satellites to capture vital climate information worldwide.

"'This is not good news at all,' said Aditi Mukherji, the co-author of the newest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 'We know that extreme events increase with every increment of global warming and at 1.5 degrees Celsius, we witnessed some of the hottest extremes this year.'"

https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/eu-climate-service-earth-records-12-straight-months-of-record-high-temperatures/1667214

#ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #ExtremeHeat #ClimateCatastrophe