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Page: Trade transparency: response to the International Trade Committee, 2018
Sustain believes trade can bring many benefits. However, as a food and farming alliance, we want to be sure that such trade deals are beneficial to our health, food safety, animal welfare, food producers and the environment.
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Page: UK CPTPP trade deal: response to Department for International Trade, 2018
We would firmly expect the UK Government to honour and respect the concerns of the British public in relation to food standards – safety, quality, workers’ pay and conditions, environmental protection, animal welfare and sustainable farm livelihoods, as well as fair dealing with food producers at home and abroad.
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Page: News update, December 2017
Sustain Brexit Forum news, 22nd December 2017
Brexit
News: Campaigners call for trade democracy
Sustain is supporting the Trade Justice Movement in its call for future trade deals to be open and democratic, ensuring that the UK uses new trade relationships to support sustainable development rathe than a global race to the bottom.
Good Food Trade Campaign | Tuesday 28 November 2017
News: Government's obesity plan: a feeble response to the children's health crisis
After a year of waiting, the government’s Childhood Obesity Strategy has at last been published. But this lightweight document contains little to excite those who want to see the UK taking a lead on addressing a health problem that threatens to make our children’s lives shorter, clouded by avoidable disease, and to engulf our national health service.
Sustain | Thursday 18 August 2016
News: Food campaigners take stock of the post-Brexit landscape
From shock to determination - read how Sustain members have responded to the EU vote
Sustain | Friday 1 July 2016
Reports: Jellied Eel 51
Features in the summer issue include: Tom Hunt's peak salad recipe, Sheila Dillon interview, Good Food Jobs - The London Brewer, TTIP - trading food safety for corporate profit?, Holiday Hunger, The Eel Loves...Finsbury Park, new London Grows initiative, plus a free Point the Fishy Finger superhero kit and much more.
Jellied Eel | Wednesday 18 May 2016
News: Transatlantic trade deal threatens EU farming
A report from Friends of the Earth predicts lower food standards, increased imports from the US, lower prices paid to EU farmers by US importers, and restricted opportunities for exporters in the rest of the world, if the proposed transatlantic trade deal goes ahead
Sustain | Friday 6 May 2016
News: Canada to compensate farmers for losses incurred as a result of trade deal
As European farmers weigh up the possible impacts of a planned free-trade deal with the USA, their Canadian counterparts are claimiing compensation for the losses they may experience if Canadian markets are opened to produce from Europe
Sustain | Friday 6 May 2016
News: Powerful new film on TTIP
War on Want and UNISON have released a new short film on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or TTIP which is currently being negotiated by the EU and the US.
Sustain | Sunday 29 November 2015
Sustain: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
