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Recently, some U.S. corporations and universities claimed to have "discovered" a miracle corn here in the mountains of Oaxaca that did what corn is not supposed to be able to do: fix nitrogen from the air to fertilize itself without the need of chemical fertilizers. Of course the indigenous communities here have used this corn for centuries. It is the product of thousands of years of communal biogenetic work and it is rightly considered communal property. Nevertheless the group of corporations and universities involved attempted to patent this corn or some genetic element from it in the United States. Fortunately, their patent application was denied, but in response, the "Espacio" for the Defense of the Native Corn Varieties of Oaxaca, developed the following notice to universities and corporate centers of investigation. NOTICE TO UNIVERSITIES, CENTERS OF INVESTIGATION AND CORPORATIONS ON WORKING IN INDIGENOUS PUEBLOS AND COMMUNITIES WITH THEIR BIODIVERSITY. ...
Modern Civilization and its People without Spirit Victor M Toledo (ex Secretary of Natural Resources in Mexico) Translated from the Mexican daily, La Jornada “The world is living the most dangerous moment in its history”, the United States’ principle intellectual, Noam Chomsky, has said, and his assertion couldn’t be more terrifying. Today, to the climate crisis we have to add the danger of nuclear war, the invalidation of democratic mechanisms ( the United States and Brazil, inhabited by over 500 million citizens are governed by two lunatics elected by their own people) and Covid19. The pandemic has not only turned the world upside down, it has also brought the entire humanity to its knees. The human species has knelt down in the face of an unstoppable phenomenon with almost a million victims which as we have maintained, and which has been demonstrated, has been a reaction of the natural world against a series of irrationalities imposed by industrial systems of food produc...
