TTIP TALKS are stuck on various food issues amount other things, including the controversial use of hormones in meat animals. The European community is firmly against the practice, and the US is firmly for it. ” – Europe’s reluctance to buy hormone meat or genetically modified food from the United States has exposed an “enormous gulf” that threatens the world’s biggest trade pact.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/12/eu-usa-trade-idUSL6N0M920R20140312