Food Industry Scared By Consumers Making Informed Decision ? What Has TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) In Store For Us ?

Publié le 19 Mai 2015

Cutting a long story short :

2009 : A US law makes meat labeling mandatory

2014 : Canadian and Mexican producers sue US government via WTO

2015 : WTO rules that labels on packaged meat indicating where cows, chicken or other animals were born, raised and slaughtered are in violation of international trade pacts.

Ain't democracy wonderful ?

Food Industry Scared By Consumers Making Informed Decision ? What Has TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) In Store For Us ?

WTO Ruling on Meat Labels Exemplifies Corporate Profits Trumping Democracy

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/05/18/wto-ruling-meat-labels-exemplifies-corporate-profits-trumping-democracy

Country-of-Origin Meat Labels Face WTO Decision

http://www.wsj.com/articles/country-of-origin-meat-labels-face-wto-decision-1431902322

Today’s WTO ruling, which effectively orders the U.S. government to stop providing consumers basic information about where their food comes from, offers a clear example of why so many Americans and members of Congress oppose the Fast Tracking of more so-called 'trade' pacts that threaten commonsense consumer safeguards

Lori Wallach, Public Citizen

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