Big Meat Swallows the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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70 groups tell Obama: Don’t restrict GMO labeling in trade agreements

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Seventy consumer, farm and food groups, and businesses urged the Obama Administration in a letter today not to restrict efforts to label genetically modified foods in the ongoing and secret U.S.-EU trade talks.

Whose Century Is It?: The Trans-Pacific Partnership, Food and the “21st-Century Trade Agreement”

The future of trade deals?

Tar Sands. How Trade Rules Surrender Sovereignty and Extend Corporate Rights

Tar Sands: How Trade Rules Surrender Sovereignty and Extend Corporate Rights

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Maine Agriculture and Food Systems in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership

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From GMO to SMO: how synthetic biology evades regulation

Products derived from synthetic biology (popularly called synbio), a rapidly growing new technology, are beginning to enter the marketplace without a regulatory framework in place that provides for pre-market safety assessment of its unique risks to health and the environment.

Leaked document reveals US-EU trade agreement threatens public health, food safety

WASHINGTON D.C. – A draft chapter of the U.S-EU trade agreement leaked today by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) reveals public health and food safety could be at risk, according to an

A Farmer and Landowner Guide to Pollinators and Neonicotinoids

Pollinators are essential to the environment and our food supply. Nearly one out of every three mouthfuls of food we eat relies on a pollinator, and they have been shown to boost crop yield and quality, providing clear economic benefits to farmers. Most people know that bees are pollinators, but there are many others, including butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, bats and hummingbirds.

New Farm to Childcare curriculum connects youngest eaters with fresh local fruits and vegetables

Minneapolis – The new Farm to Childcare Curriculum Package released today gives childcare providers a roadmap to start their own Farm to Childcare programs in order to connect young children with locally grown, minimally processed foods and the farmers who gro