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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Track Treason and the Coming Corporate Coup: Calling Out TPP Traitors [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)... The WTO overturned U.S. laws then in ruling that we couldn't have regulations specifying which cans of tuna were retrieved in nets, etc. according to regulatory rules that would entitle them to be labeled as "dolphin safe", because it lead to those that couldn't comply with these rules from being able to sell to us.
This time around TPP tribunals will be used to get rid of GMO labeling and other GMO regulatory laws in the same fashion for corporate "friends" that pay government officials a lot of money. Those laws here in Oregon's Jackson and Josephine county restricting GMO crops there would be flushed by the wayside with TPP in place. And we needn't even try to put another GMO labeling measure on the ballot that needed records amount of money spent against it to get it narrowly voted down here. The GMO industry would just go to TPP tribunal instead and basically tell us that we don't have any rights over knowing what we eat, because THEY make our laws instead of our government!
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-usa-mexico-trade-idUSBRE84F1EY20120516