Join the Resistance to GMO contamination of Zapatista Corn by helping purchase GMO field testing units!
Your donations to purchase GMO field testing kits will allow Zapatista small farming families a rough gage of GMO contaminations in their fields and milpas. Your donation also makes you a vital part of a massive social movement to protect the Mayan genetic heritage of corn and keep it free of genetic modification.
Corn was invented by the Mayan people and they proudly call themselves "The People of Corn". However international corporated interests are strongly promoting a profitable alternative to the organic, GMO-free corn which feeds the Zapatista movment. Recently, the government of Mexico allowed the first "legal, experimental" planting of GMO corn in Mexico; however for years scientists and farmers have been aware of contaminations by "illegal" GMO plantings.
In the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas, the people are resisting the spread of GMO's by only planting corn seed from known sources, educating their communities about the dangers of GMO's, planting hertage seeds in an international grow-out program, and field testing for GMO contaminations. These small field testing units provide a rough gage of GMO contamination and can be used by the small farmers of Chiapas themselves.
Donors will receive a "Thank You" certificate; please let us know if notification of your gift should be sent to another person(s) and thank you so much for joining with the farming families of Chiapas to protect what is truely a world heritage - GMO-free, organic Mayan corn!
We ask that you pay whatever you can between $7.00 and $700.00.
