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Big Meat imitates Big Tobacco in fighting the public’s right to know 15 Aug 2013 | 09:15 pm
Eight meatpacking industry groups recently sued to stop implementation of the popular Country of Origin Label (COOL) law (supported by 93 percent of Americans) that was passed back in 2008. Proceedin...
Trade rules versus sustainability 15 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
As two of the largest free trade agreements (TTIP and TPP) in history are being negotiated, free trade agreements like these will become more entrenched in our lives than ever before. Unfortunately, t...
Upping the ante in the TTIP: Let’s add financial services and call your bluff 7 Aug 2013 | 09:19 pm
The launch of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations presents a new challenge to commodity and financial market reform. Those reforms, codified in the U.S. in rules aut...
Biotech industry moves toward “transparency” while pulling the curtain over trade agreements 2 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
Earlier this week, Andrew Pollack reported in the New York Times that biotech companies like Monsanto, Dupont and Dow Chemical announced through an industry association that they would be more transpa...
Alberta Clipper Tar Sand Oil Pipeline Expansion in Minnesota 22 Jul 2013 | 11:04 pm
$0.00 $0.00 Date and time: Thu., August 8, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Location IATP Stevens Avenue Building 2104 Stevens Avenue S Minneapolis, MN United States See map: Google Maps RSVP Link: RSVP.....
Celebrating the IATP Food and Community Fellows 19 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
In late June, alumni from the past eight classes of the IATP Food and Community Fellows program met for the last time against the backdrop of the Snoqualmie Falls outside of Seattle. Almost every clas...
Chemicals and Obesity 9 Jul 2013 | 02:12 am
IATP author(s): Kathleen Schuler, MPH File: 2013_07_08_Obesogens.pdf While diet and exercise are important factors in the obesity epidemic, an emerging body of science demonstrates that exposure.....
Trade Secrets – Draft EU documents reveal trade agenda with U.S. 3 Jul 2013 | 07:24 pm
Transparency and trade negotiations don’t seem to go together these days. Recent revelations in Spiegel disclosed that the U.S. government had been spying on its EU “partners” connected to negotiation...
Trade deal to undermine health, environmental standards 26 Jun 2013 | 07:41 pm
Subtitle: US-EU organizations deliver criticism to trade representatives IATP author(s): Andrew Ranallo File: 2013_06_26_TTIP.pdf Closed-door trade negotiations on the Trans-Atlantic Trade an...
What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership? 21 Jun 2013 | 11:06 pm
$0.00 $0.00 Date and time: Mon., July 1, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Location Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation 312 Central Avenue 2nd Floor Minneapolis, MN United States See map: Google Maps RSV....
