TTIP: The downfall of EU agriculture?
EXCLUSIVE / A new study has concluded that TTIP threatens to
completely change the way small and medium sized farms operate, through
the use of more genetic engineering and more hormone-treated meat. EurActiv Germany reports.
Europe's farmers are in the midst of a crisis, with milk prices at
rock-bottom, continuing EU sanctions against Russia and smallholders
going under. But the knockout punch could still be yet to come, with the
looming behemoth of TTIP, the planned free trade agreement between the
EU and USA, on the horizon. If, as intended by negotiators on both sides
of the Atlantic, standards in the agri-food industry are harmonised
between the two trading blocs, then entire sectors of European
agriculture could be endangered.
