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Re:TTIP talks: Food fights block EU–US trade deal by littletimmy on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:57AM (#9856366)
Power to Europe. It alone has the might to stand up to the US corporatocracy. The precautionary principle, that stuff must be shown to be safe before being put on the market, makes a heck of a lot more sense than the American let-business-do-what-they-want approach.
Re:TTIP talks: Food fights block EU–US trade deal by michel-slm on Thursday July 09, 2015 @02:08AM (#9856393)
Power to Europe in this case, though in general their Common Agricultural Policy is insanity
Re:TTIP talks: Food fights block EU–US trade deal by acyacy on Thursday July 09, 2015 @02:15AM (#9856408)
The Common Agricultural Policy has its upsides too. It's nice to know a lot of the produce is based of a certain baseline. Particularly when it comes to pesticides and GMO & allowing this to work in market through the use CAP