Did you know the proposed trade agreements with Peru, Panama and Columbia would reduce US food safety?
After reading this, I wonder…does the U.S. even have any standards worth speaking of? Time to go vegan…and grow my own vegetables and fruits. Thank you very much for this link, this is horrible news and everyone needs to know this. Below are examples of how the United States clearly is moving to systematically relax U.S. health and safety standards: 1. The United States continues to lower its BSE (mad cow disease) standards below the world norm. 2. The U.S. is trying to carve out a section of Argentina affected by foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in order to facilitate imports of Argentinean fresh and chilled beef, despite Argentina’s FMD status. 3. The U.S. has failed to act on information provided by USDA’s Inspector General, who found that 75 percent of all bovine tuberculosis cases detected at slaughter originated in Mexico. 4. USDA’s Inspector General found that the U.S. ignored the fact that Canadian meatpackers were not meeting U.S. equivalency standards, yet meat was still expo
