Discovering transgenic corn, Mexicans suspicious of U.S. From: International Herald Tribune | Date: March 28, 2005| Author: | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Elisabeth Malkin
International Herald Tribune
03-28-2005
This ancient Zapotec Indian town of whitewashed adobe houses and tiled roofs perched on a verdant slope of the western Sierra Madre could not be farther from the American laboratories where white-coated scientists create strains of genetically altered corn.This is the birthplace of maize, where people took thousands of years to domesticate its wild ancestor, where pre-Hispanic myths describe it as a gift from the gods, and where cooks prepare it in dozens of ways to be served at every meal.So the discovery of genetically modified corn ...

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