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Focus on: TTIP, food & farming

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Why EU’s and US’ new trade deal threatens progressive business
27-Aug-2015 Chemsec
In the EU, representatives from parts of the chemical and pesticide industry have used TTIP to fiercely lobby against stronger protections from hormone (endocrine) disrupting chemicals (EDCs)
TTIP between US and EU ‘threatens Maltese farmers and consumers’
23-Aug-2015 Malta Independent
The TTIP deal between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) could have a considerable impact on the way in which food and commodities are produced, traded and regulated, with impacts for farmers and consumers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The perfect pinta vs. the TTIP trade tanker
21-Aug-2015 The Ecologist
Britain’s dairy farmers have been having a hard time largely thanks to their exposure to an unregulated, unstable, global food market.
La marché du porc : un problème politique européen !
14-Aug-2015 Economie Matin
Ce n’est pas au niveau national, table ronde ou pas au ministère de l’Agriculture, que le problème pourra se résoudre.
Why Europe and the US are locked in a food fight over TTIP
8-Aug-2015 The Conversation
It is not certain whether TTIP will relent and grant European food products even the limited protection they have under CETA
MEPs call for safeguard clause in TTIP to protect EU farmers
2-Jun-2015 Farmers Weekly
The EU should be able to close markets to specific US agricultural goods if an increase in imports threatened to cause serious harm to domestic food production, say MEPs.
Approval of GMO imports moves EU ’closer to Monsanto’
27-Apr-2015 Common Dreams
Environmental advocates say authorization indication of further industry-friendly policies pending trade deal with US will usher in
The EU claims that TTIP won’t reduce EU food safety standards – but is this true?
21-Apr-2015 ChemTrust
The EU commission has claimed that there will be no lowering of food safety standards in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) that is currently being negotiated with the United States. However, an examination of the EU’s negotiating position shows that they are already offering changes which could lead to increased amounts of pesticide residues in food in the EU in the future.
April 17: Lobby action tour on TTIP, impacts for food and farmers
20-Apr-2015 Corporate Europe Observatory
On 17 April, Via Campesina, the D190-20 Alliance and Corporate Europe Observatory held a lobby tour around the Brussels European quarter, highlighting the corporate lobbies who are pushing an aggressive agenda around TTIP (the EU-US trade deal currently being negotiated).
MEPs want health excluded from TTIP talks
15-Apr-2015 EurActiv
MEPs want to exclude public health services, genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), the use of hormones in the bovine sector, chemical legislation REACH and its implementation, and cloning from the talks.