America’s chemical-soaked, hormone-filled meats impede trade deal with Europe
by: Jennifer Lea Reynolds
NaturalNews.com
Friday, January 22, 2016
Earlier this year, many people in the United States were angered over the fact that the USDA was on board with having US chickens sent to China for processing, then shipped back to the States for human consumption. Questionable food practices in China, as well as the illogical nature of such an elaborate import/export process, rendered Americans’ stomachs — and finances — uneasy.(1)
How interesting it is then, that the United States, which fears China’s iffy food security, is now entertaining signing a bill which is providing Europe with those same fears. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), if signed and passed, is poised to create a global megamarket of 800 million consumers spanning from Hawaii to Greece and Alaska to Finland.(2)
While advocates say that TTIP, which would become the world’s largest free trade deal, would create a globalization breakthrough that could boost transatlantic commerce and create millions of new jobs, the majority of people in Europe are expressing extreme dissatisfaction about the possibility. Just as Americans are hesitant to purchase certain foods from China, many Europeans are not happy about the idea of perhaps one day consuming American foods which are often dubbed as Frankenfoods.
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