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djean111

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14. Because to do so might make consumers decide to not buy that meat, if they

Reply to Little Tich (Reply #12)

Tue Apr 14, 2015, 11:45 PM

Apr 2015

believe it has growth hormones, for example. Basically, corporations are stacking this particular deck so that nothing on a label would inform a buyer of anything except what is in the package. Nothing about country of origin, GMO, whatever. Right now I won't buy shrimp from Vietnam - or anyone around there - because I have read about the filthy conditions the shrimp are raised in. With the TPP, shrimp would not be labeled as coming from Vietnam, so I would either have to trust that the shrimp is clean, or just not buy shrimp, or get my shrimp mail ordered from somewhere safe.

It is all about profits.

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WTO rules against U.S. dolphin-safe canned tuna labels [View all] Little Tich Apr 2015 OP

he TPP will just ramp this stuff up. djean111 Apr 2015 #1

You are correct. 840high Apr 2015 #6

Here we go. madfloridian Apr 2015 #2

Under the TPP ISDS provisions they will likely be able to sue for anything. I can contrive an GoneFishin Apr 2015 #3

I hesitate to look up other rulings made by that court. Wilms Apr 2015 #4

Free Trade = Free to do whatever the fuck you want. Elmer S. E. Dump Apr 2015 #15

Dolphin safe MJJP21 Apr 2015 #5

I read here that some of it isn't tuna, it's monkfish. Another reason not to buy slave produced Thai freshwest Apr 2015 #9

kick midnight Apr 2015 #7

I thought the WTO had ended Geronimoe Apr 2015 #8

Why is the US standing up for this labeling but we can't get GMO labeling? cui bono Apr 2015 #10

It's all about the profits and nothing about the health (of anything). Nihil Apr 2015 #17

I've read here that Obama has never lost a case with the WTO. This one is part of a larger concern: freshwest Apr 2015 #11

Why would it be wrong to label the country of origin for meat? Little Tich Apr 2015 #12

I didn't like the loss of COO either. The claim at link is the standards will the same, freshwest Apr 2015 #13

Because to do so might make consumers decide to not buy that meat, if they djean111 Apr 2015 #14

how about a 'DNA tested' label '100% tuna' Sunlei Apr 2015 #16