US Senator Deb Fischer (R-NE), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, led a letter with 25 other senators from both major parties in response to Mexico’s efforts to ban genetically engineered corn from the United States. The bipartisan letter was co-led by Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois.
The letter is in response to Mexican president Lopez Obrador, who, in 2020, decreed that the country would phase out using genetically modified corn by 2024. This, according to the senatorial document, is in violation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a free trade deal signed between the three nations in 2020.
“These actions are unsupported by science and a breach of USMCA,” reads the letter. It would be detrimental to food security in Mexico, hurt US agricultural sustainability, and stifle future agricultural technology innovations that would benefit both nations.”
The full letter is available here.