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Focus on: TTIP, food & farming

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TTIP will sacrifice food safety for faster trade, warn NGOs
28-Aug-2014 EurActiv
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will irreversibly put EU consumers and animals at risk, the European Commission will be warned today (28 August).
TTIP: The newborn in the neoliberal saga
8-Apr-2015 Marcha
Since the mid 1990s, some relevant economic actors have been trying to contribute to the evolution of a massive free trade zone linking the US and Europe, two of the richest regions in the world.
TTIP: A recipe for disaster
15-Dec-2014 CEO
This brochure explains how TTIP will promote the industrial model of food and farming, further threatening the survival of small family farms, local food initiatives, standards for healthy and safe food, animal welfare, the environment, and public health.
TTIP: The downfall of EU agriculture?
12-Jan-2016 EurActiv
A new study has concluded that TTIP threatens to completely change the way small and medium sized farms operate, through the use of more genetic engineering and more hormone-treated meat.
UK: Poultry sector raise safety concerns over TTIP
25-Oct-2014 Meat Info
Members of the UK poultry industry are concerned that trade negotiations under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the EU and US could undermine food safety.
United States and Europe disagree on GM crops
3-Mar-2016 The Irish News
America, where GMOs have been in the human supply chain for more than two decades, want their currently banned crops to be imported into Europe.
US livestock industry ready for ’comprehensive’ FTA with EU
21-May-2013 Farm Futures
Coalition of ag organizations says previous talks through Trans-Pacific Partnership should be used as model for EU agreement
US renews fight against EU ban on hormone-treated beef
23-Dec-2016 EurActiv
Given the failure of the TTIP talks, the US is reinstating its trade action, according to USTR.
US says ’science’ should settle trans-Atlantic food trade rules
20-Jun-2014 DW
When US farm lobbyists push for "sound science" as the basis for food supply trade rules, what they mean by this term is that they want Europe to eliminate all restrictions on imports of food from the US, and to adopt a US-style food supply regulatory regime, stripped of the precautionary principle.
US Senators shocked by EU’s cheese-name claims
13-Mar-2014 EurActiv
In a rare act of bipartisan unity, dozens of US senators have wheeled into action against what they call an "absurd" European initiative that would force name changes to common cheese varieties produced in the United States.