Healthy Traditions Press Release

by Brian Shilhavy

This past year (2024) Mexico tried to ban the import of all U.S. GMO corn into Mexico, to protect their native, heirloom varieties.

But because they are part of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), they were overruled and forced to continue importing GMO contaminated corn from the U.S.

Mexico loses GM corn trade dispute with US

A three-member USMCA dispute resolution panel has handed Mexico a big defeat by ruling against the country’s restrictions on genetically modified (GM) corn imports, citing a lack of scientific basis for the measures.

The panel found that Mexico’s policies were in violation of its obligations under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), most notably in regard to market access.

The U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) office said the panel ruled in favor of all seven U.S. legal claims in the long-running case, “handing the Biden administration a major trade victory in its final weeks,” according to Reuters.

Announced on Friday, the decision comes after years of escalating tensions since Mexico’s initial 2021 decree to phase out GM corn for human consumption — starting with bans against the use of GM corn in tortillas and dough, with a possible future ban on GM corn for livestock, as well.

Mexico has been importing GM corn from the U.S. for years, buying about US $3 billion worth annually. That corn is mainly used to feed livestock.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) notes that more than 90% of corn in the U.S. is produced using genetically engineered varieties, according to a fact sheet produced by the Washington, D.C.-based Wilson Center.

In general, genetic modifications made to plants introduce traits such as resistance to pests, tolerance to herbicides such as Roundup, better nutritional content or faster growth.

While genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remain a subject of debate, the widely used but controversial herbicide Roundup has been classified as a “probable carcinogen,” by the World Health Organization (WHO).

The USTR hailed last week’s ruling, stating it upheld USMCA principles and protected U.S. farmers — as Mexico is the largest market for U.S. corn exports.

According to the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), an agency within the USDA, Mexico imported US $4.25 billion of corn from the U.S. from January through September of this year, a period in which U.S. corn exports totaled US $10.76 billion.

Mexico’s Ministry of Economy said in a statement on Friday that it does not agree with the ruling, but “will respect the determination, since the USMCA dispute resolution system is a key part of the treaty.”

The ministry’s statement stressed that Mexico’s GMO measures were designed “to protect public health and Indigenous rights.” (Source.)

Fortunately, even before this Mexican trade dispute with the U.S. over GMO corn, there were still plenty of places in Mexico where farmers do NOT use American GMO corn.

For the past many years we have been purchasing Mexican corn from a province in Central Mexico that bans GMO corn. They had a poor harvest at the end of 2023, forcing us to switch from our Mexican white corn heirloom variety to a poly blue corn variety that tested clean for GMOs and glyphosate.

At the end of 2024 we found a new supplier of heirloom non-GMO corn in Mexico which carries traditional varieties of Mexican corn from small-scale family farmers in Mexico, and after testing their corn, we purchased many tons that should last us through most of 2025, and that corn is now safely in our warehouse in Texas, preceding any tariffs that might be levied against Mexican imported products.

This new supplier of Heirloom Mexican corn is a cooperative from Mexico that sources Mexican heritage crops with a commitment to native small-scale family farmers in Mexico, with a commitment to the farmers, flavor, and biodiversity.

Their partner farmers cultivate a variety of heirloom corns that have been preserved through generations. They use agricultural systems that prioritize biodiversity, such as the milpa, to nurture these unique crops and the land.

Milpa is a field for growing food crops and a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica, especially in the Yucatán Peninsula, in Mexico.

The word milpa derives from the Nahuatl words milli and pan. Based on the agronomy of the Maya and of other Mesoamerican peoples, the milpa system is used to produce crops of maize, beans, and squash without employing artificial pesticides and artificial fertilizers.

The land-conservation cycle of the milpa is two years of cultivation and eight years of laying fallow.

In the Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoacán and in central Mexico as well as Guanacaste Province Costa Rica, as an agricultural term milpa denotes a single corn plant.

The cooperative we work with cuts out intermediaries, and fosters long-term, trusting partnerships with farmers, their families, and their communities.

They buy the surplus heirloom corn from these farmers and their families, who grow these crops for their own consumption.

By working this way, they make sure to not deprive them of their sustenance and ancient food rites. They understand that these farmers are the stewards of Mexico’s biodiversity and their communities are life-supporting ecosystems unto themselves.

This cooperative actively listens, observes, and stands hand-in-hand with their partner farmers as they care for their land and their people.

They honor the cultural practices and rituals they’ve passed down through generations, and learn from these powerful preservationists every day.

They help farmers calculate their total production costs and then mutually agree on a price that covers these costs and enables a net profit.

On average, farmers within this network receive 43% of the final selling price.

Healthy Traditions has sourced a Cónico Cremoso (cream color) native variety of corn from San Felipe del Progreso from the State of Mexico, commonly known as Edomex (from Estado de México), to distinguish it from the name of the whole country.

You can now order this corn yourself from the Healthy Traditions online store, including our famous tortilla corn chips we make from this corn which is then fried in our own Tropical Traditions coconut oil!

We believe these are some of the finest tortilla corn chips on the market in the U.S., and unrivaled by any other corn chip product!

When you order these tortilla corn chips, you are not only purchasing the highest quality and finest tasting corn chips available, you are supporting small-scale hard-working Mexican families who live in Mexico who are carrying on their healthy family traditions to produce the highest quality corn possible, as an alternative to the mass-produced GMO corn in the U.S. which is also heavily sprayed with toxic herbicides and pesticides.

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