“In response to these threats and uncertainties over health risks posed by GMOs, dozens of countries have passed legislation to restrict or ban GMO crops altogether. GMO corn is currently banned in Mexico, for example, to protect the diversity of the country’s most important crop. Seed companies frame these initiatives as ‘unduly restrictive of trade,’ as BIO’s letter to the USTR put it, and the TPP may make it easier for seed companies to challenge GMO bans on trade grounds. Montenegro expects this will force open previously inaccessible markets for GMOs, ‘imperiling sovereignty over seeds, ecosystems, and knowledge rights.’”











