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Leading food industry figure calls for GM rethink
Publication — Farmers Guardian (UK) Author — By Alistair Driver Date — April 21, 2012 Website — www.farmersguardian.com A LEADING representative of the food manufacturing sector has called for a major rethink on attitudes towards GM technology in the UK and Europe. Food and Drink Federation (FDF) president Jim Moseley has issued a plea to [...]
A Portuguese Farmer’s Request for the Freedom to Choose Technology That Helps Feed the World and Science-Based Decisions by the European Commission
We can buy it but we can’t grow it. That’s how crazy the European Union’s policies on biotech food have become. Regulators let us purchase livestock feed derived from genetically modified crops, but only if it’s produced abroad. We’re forbidden to grow these exact same plants on our own farms. It makes no sense, and [...]
MP calls for more GM crops in the UK MP calls for more GM crops in the UK
Farming UK February 24, 2012 Norfolk MP George Freeman has today called for a new debate on GM, saying UK drought and global development in foodsecurity make it essential that the European Union changes its opposition to Agricultural Science and GM, so that Europe and the UK can help pioneer the agricultural innovation the world is [...]
EU, US ink organic food deal
AFP (via Google News) February 15, 2012 NUREMBERG, Germany — Food products classified as organic in the European Union or the United States can be sold as such in either region after a deal struck on Wednesday between the two major trading blocs. The agreement, signed in the southern city of Nuremberg between top officials [...]
TRADE: Obama Budget Reflects White House Focus on Enforcement
National Journal February 13, 2012 By Kelsey Snell If 2011 was a banner year for trade expansion, President Obama’s 2013 budget gives every indication the White House wants to return its focus to enforcement—just in time to woo jilted trade skeptics back for the election season. Obama’s budget proposal would expand the International Trade Administration [...]
Another big noodle
The Economist January 26, 2012 CLEARLY the Japanese government does not think it has too much on its plate trying to secure support at home and abroad for its plan to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the America-led free-trade zone. According to Motohisa Furukawa, minister for national policy, Japan’s decision to prepare the ground for TPP [...]
Railroads to invest $13 billion this year, hire 15,000 workers
Los Angeles Times January 31, 2012 By Ronald D.White In a positive sign for the U.S. economy, the nation’s major railroads will invest a record $13 billion in various infrastructure upgrades this year, including a vital freight corridor that links Southern California’s seaports to Texas and the Southwest. That’s according to an industry group that represents [...]
Trade Protest Is Planned on Eve of a Chinese Leader’s Visit
The New York Times January 30, 2012 By Keith Bradsher HONG KONG — As the White House prepares for a Washington visit by the man who is expected to run China for the coming decade, trade tensions between the United States and Beijing are on the rise. On Tuesday, a coalition of big American labor [...]
Europe eyes US free trade agreement
Sydney Morning Herald / AP January 27, 2012 By Frank Jordans British Prime Minister David Cameron has given his support to the idea of a free trade deal between the European Union and the US, suggesting that a trans-Atlantic pact could deliver a much-needed boost to global commerce. His call for a bilateral deal with [...]
Don’t Mess With the Single-Focused USTR
I have a message for President Obama: Don’t mess with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Earlier this month, the President spoke of the need to improve the government’s performance–and he amplified this theme on Tuesday night, in his State of the Union address. “The executive branch also needs to change,” he said. “Too [...]
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