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Five Red Flags for Food, Farming and Fair Trade Under the UK’s New Brexit Plan

Brexit presents a number of significant risks to the future of sustainable food and agriculture in the UK, the EU and around the world. Until now, those risks have been speculative. But recent actions by the UK government have raised the stakes and presented five significant risks as a result of Brexit.

QR Codes and GMOs: The Proposed Food Labeling Rule

IATP recently submitted comments on the U.S Department of Agriculture’s proposed GMO disclosure rule.

IATP Comments on "National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard"

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) appreciates this opportunity to submit comments on the proposed rule, “National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard.” For more than 30 years, IATP has provided technical expertise and research in support of sustainable and economically viable family and small-scale farms, rural

Junk Food, Junk Provisions

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How CETA Can Endanger Country of Origin Labelling (COOL)

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Monsanto wins on Senate GMO labeling “compromise”

On July 1, Vermont’s law requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods will go into effect. That simple requirement to inform consumers about what they are eating sent a shiver through a Congress hooked on millions of dollars in biotech and food industry money.

From TPP to TTIP: Clues to New Food Trade Rules

While civil society groups around the world raise a variety of concerns about the substance of free trade agreements, for the most part their criticisms begin with the lack of transparency.

Following Breadcrumbs: TPP Text Provides Clues to U.S. Positions in TTIP

While civil society groups around the world raise a variety of concerns about the substance of free trade agreements, for the most part they begin their critiques with the lack of transparency.

Senators—Voluntary is not COOL!

This week the World Trade Organization (WTO) gave Canada and Mexico the right to impose over a billion dollars’ worth of sanctions per year unless the U.S. Congress repeals a common sense law, Country of Origin-Labeling (COOL) for meat (beef, pork and poultry).

WTO’s COOL Ruling confirms that trade treaties undermine national laws

On May 8th, President Obama told a crowd in Oregon: No trade agreement is going to force us to change our laws.