WTO doesn't want us to know where our food comes from...

[Tom McLemore]

Interesting ruling by the WTO concerning COOL requirements...

http://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/wto-cool-rul/

 

[Vlad Jovanovic]

Wow, very "interesting" indeed. Then again if you actually care about where your food comes from, you could always get to know your farmer, enroll in a meat CSA, go to your local farmers market, mail order your grass fed meat etc...Or, hey here's a novel idea, don't purchase or consume products that are of questionable origin, (or that you for whatever reason have a moral quandary over). I mean half the reason governments/corporations get away with things like this is that most folks really just don't care. Or at least not enough to change their shopping habits. 

[Tom McLemore]

Agree...

[Vlad Jovanovic]

I secretly had held out some hope some that the new Farm Bill would embrace a modicum of reform. Not a major overhaul, but at least a bit of a push in the right direction. But the way they have now decided to just rush it through and write the whole thing in a matter of weeks, behind closed doors by-passing any semblance of democratic process...it's rather disheartening. 

http://www.ift.org/Food-Technology/Past-Issues/2011/November/Column...

 

http://politicsofpoverty.oxfamamerica.org/index.php/author/bgrossma...