What's For Dinner?

Karen Hansen-Kuhn discusses TAFTA, proposed EU-US "NAFTA-type" trade agreement. Karen describes December's simultaneous international trade talks - including World Trade Organization negotiations and meetings on both proposed Transpacific Partnership and US-European Union free trade agreements. Stakes are high. US legislators haven't seen drafts of TPP and TAFTA. Secret horse-trading means negotiators trade off laws and regulations on everything from patents to food safety. Agreements establish permanent rules. Negotiators try to carry their wins from one to another set of negotiations. Describing how trade issues cut close to home, Karen notes how US corporations' attack on European GM labeling could hurt US consumers and looser agricultural imports could allow EU suppliers to undercut US "buy local" programs.