News: What will TTIP mean for food and climate?
Confused by the TTIP (the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership)? Read on for Vicki Hird's explanation.
Sustain | Saturday 20 June 2015
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
News: Jamie Oliver takes on TTIP trade deal over food
Jamie Oliver has stepped in to the fray over the threat posed to food standards by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which he believes will lower standards such as getting around bans imposed by the EU on putting growth hormoes and pesticides in meat, as the same standards dont apply in the US.
Sustainable Farming Campaign | Friday 6 March 2015
News: Decades of hard-fought public health gains may be set back if the TTIP is not negotiated in a way that protects social safeguards and health
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) was one of the main topics covered during the European Public Health Association’s (EHPA) September conference. A report from the event highlights the European public health community’s concern that decades of hard-fought public health gains may be set back if the TTIP is not negotiated in a way that protects social safeguards and health – specifically in regard to technical barriers to trade, intellectual property rights and drug patenting, and challenges to the way that the EU and Member States regulate on food safety, chemicals, alcohol and public services.
Sustain | Wednesday 1 October 2014
News: US/EU trade negotiations threaten food safety and standards - email your MP
The new Transatlantic Trade and Investment partnership (TTIP) is getting greater attention as MPs start an enquiry over fears it could weaken rules to protect food and the environment.
Sustain | Tuesday 13 January 2015
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
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
