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Corporate Meat's Takeover through TTIP

The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s European Office, along with international group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), German member of Via Campesina—Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft e.V.

Selling Off the Farm

Executive Summary

Coordination on agriculture policy could undermine developing country interests.

The proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the U.S. and the European Union has been negotiated in secret – preventing the public from knowing what exactly is on the negotiating table. In May, TTIP text was leaked by Greenpeace Netherlands. The leaked text provides a snapshot of the status of the talks.

Proposals on regulatory cooperation would lower standards

Tariff reductions could disrupt local farming systems

Local governments could be required to abandon buy-local requirements

Secret science would help streamline biotech and other food product approvals

When elephants dance: potential TTIP impacts on developing-countries’ farms

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has the potential to transform agricultural trade between the United States and the European Union. TTIP could potentially lower tariffs and non-tariff barriers on a range of agricultural goods. While the impact of this on U.S.

Five key takeaways from the TTIP leak for food and farming systems

The leaked Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiating texts published by Greenpeace Netherlands1 on May 2 provide a crucial snapshot of the status of the trade talks.

Leaked TTIP text shows U.S. negotiators push to lower food safety standards, farmer protections

Minneapolis – Leaked negotiating texts for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) expose the heavy influence of corporate agribusiness in the negotiations, pushing to lower trade restrictions and public health regulations affecting food production, according to analysis of the texts by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade