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Nuevo Durango Mennonite Camp, Campeche, Mexico-November 10, 2018: Peter Peter, 10 riding in his father's soy truck with the seasons soy harvest ready to be weighed and deposited in the silo where his father David Peter works. Mayan beekeepers of the Yucatan Peninsula have been grappling with contaminated honey ever since transgenic soy was introduced into the farming of the region. The soy is produced primarily by the continually expanding Mennonite community by a government supported subsidies program. Traces of the soy and glyphaste, the main agrotoxin used to kill off weeds around the resistant soy have been found in the honey which is of organic quality and which the Mayans export to Europe mainly through Germany. The honey which must now be labeled when it contains elements of the soy or toxins is being bought now at a much lower rate. The mennonites are also buying up land from the indigenous communities and cutting down virgin forrest land in order to expand there existing communities and create moer farm land. As a result many bees also disappear, wtih diminishing flowers to polinate. In 2015 the supreme court in Mexico ruled to prohibit the use of transgenic soy in the country, yet soy farmers have continued to plant the modified version and operate with impunity despite the law. (Nadia Shira Cohen) NO SALES, THIS MATERIAL IS FOR SINGLE USE PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OR FOR A TEMPORARY ONLINE PUBLICATION, AND MAY BE USED EXCLUSIVELY TO PUBLICIZE THE 2019 WORLD PRESS CONTEST AND EXHIBITION. IT MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED AS PART OF AN ARTICLE OR ANY OTHER ITEM THAT CONTAINS NO DIRECT LINK TO WORLD PRESS PHOTO AND ITS ACTIVITIES. THE PICTURE MAY NOT BE CROPPED OR MANIPULATED IN ANY WAY. KEYSTONE PROVIDES ACCESS TO THIS PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED HANDOUT PHOTO. THE COPYRIGHT IS OWNED BY A THIRD PARTY.