Unfortunately, due to the industry and biotechnology, our corn is in great danger. From the hybrids to the transgenic, from the grain to the seed sold in the international market, everything is controlled.  A few transnational companies are constantly developing new strategies, both legal and commercial, so that the peasants stop using their own seeds and enter into their vicious, destructive and dependent cycle. They do not care about the tradition, culture and importance the seed has for the people.

At the same time, the corn is being wasted for non-nourishing ends, such as producing ethanol for gasoline, or feed the poulty and porcine industries. They are using only the ‘best appealing’ and most commercial types, getting rid of the many other types of corn, making them disappear.

 

However, the biggest threat to the native corn is the genetic modification. Through this practice, different viruses, bacteria and algae are transmitted to the corn in order to make it immune to the glyphosate, insects and droughts.  

 

The transgenic corn is now expanding all throughout Latin America. It is already being produced in Argentina and Brasil to a large scale. Colombia, Uruguay, Honduras, Paraguay and Bolivia have it  as well, but in a lower number. Mexico has already started with experimental crops.

 

The transgenic business has been expanding greatly, that it now has most of the native land, making it unfertile and toxic, therefore making our Mother Earth, la Pachamama, become ill.  

 

The seed is not sacred anymore, it is now merely a business.