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Mexico’s Corn Defenders Honored with Environmental Prize

Food Tank

They know maize is different.” The foundation selected the Demanda Colectiva to join such esteemed company, according to president and founder Randall Tolpinrud, for its “courage and wisdom to resist the ravages of industrial agriculture that degrades the land, destroys biodiversity and encourages increased carbon emissions.”

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

If GM corn and glyphosate pose health risks to humans, as suggested by a growing body of research, then those risks are magnified in Mexico, where the national diet revolves around minimally processed white corn, especially in the form of its iconic flatbread, the tortilla. Varieties of Mexican corn on display at a restaurant in Oaxaca City.

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