Factsheets: TAFTA’s Threats to Consumers and the Environment

The corporations advising TAFTA negotiators have bluntly named the consumer and environmental safeguards that the deal should dismantle:

Overall : TAFTA’s Top Ten Threats to U.S. Consumers

Banks : Roll Back Wall Street Reforms

Agribusiness : Weaken Food Safety Standards

Oil and Gas Corporations : Halt Green Energy Policies

Monsanto, et al : Remove GMO Labels and Limits

Foreign Firms : Empower Corporations to Attack Safeguards

EU Negotiators : Eliminate Buy Local and Buy Green Policies

Economists : Tiny Economic Gains Projected, Assuming No Costs from Safeguard Elimination

 

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