Month: September 2022

BRITS TOLD MAD COW WAS NOT A WORRY. "Between 460,000 and 482,000 BSE-infected animals had entered the human food chain before controls on high-risk offal were introduced in 1989.""British government officials at the time said don't worry, there is nothing to worry about. This of course only led the public to become more skeptical." http://lnkd.in/dYFs3u3http://lnkd.in/dAEigvb View in LinkedIn

MAD COW IN UK POPULATION TODAY AT 1:2,000. "At least one in 2,000 people in the UK carries an abnormal protein linked to the human form of mad cow disease, say researchers. The latest estimate has renewed fears that the incubation period may be longer than previously thought. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a fatal, degenerative brain disorder." http://lnkd.in/dsey73Y View in LinkedIn

THE EU HORSE MEAT CONTAMINATION SCANDAL. "The recent horse meat scandal has put the spotlight on how our food is produced, how much we pay for it, and who ultimately controls what we eat." http://lnkd.in/dFn2hGT View in LinkedIn

EC FOOD CLONING LEGISLATION. "The first proposal would ban animal cloning for food purposes in the EU, as well as imports of cloned animals and embryos. The second proposal would ban the marketing of food, i.e. meat and dairy products from cloned animals in the EU." http://www.usda-eu.org/topics/animal-cloning/ View in LinkedIn

ANIMAL FARM CATCH-22: "EU Seeks To Ban Cloned Livestock, But Not Meat, Milk From Their Offspring. One of the many problems related to cloned animals, the Commission noted, is that there is no system to properly track the offspring of clones, making it difficult to label their by-products." http://lnkd.in/biAfGVP View in LinkedIn

CLONING OF FOOD ANIMALS. "To date over 23 species have been cloned. "One significant aspect of this list is documenting the transition from early concerns that animal cloning procedures might be limited to a few species, that cloned animals might be physiologically abnormal, or cloning might lack utility for society." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_that_have_been_cloned View in LinkedIn

TRANSPARENCY ON FOOD PROVENANCE. “It is clear that the Grocery Manufacturers Association will do anything in their power to keep the public from knowing what is in the food they are buying ... We and our allies in the food movement will work to make sure that the public’s right to know is protected and that this bill if introduced, is dead on arrival.” http://lnkd.in/b-RCtJm View in LinkedIn

US INFLUENCE ON EUROPEAN FOOD POLICIES. "The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would be the largest free trade partnership ever created. The EU-US trade relationship amounted to €455 billion in 2011 ... The combined GDP of the EU and US is $31.06 trillion." http://lnkd.in/beWBzgT View in LinkedIn

FOLLOW THE MONEY. “Let me be very clear again: we do not even discuss hormone beef in TTIP and we will NOT at any point in our discussions. Why? Because hormone beef is prohibited in Europe, and we do not intend to change this. And our American partners know this very well.” http://lnkd.in/beWBzgT View in LinkedIn

EU-US TRADE. "Eight months into talks to create a transatlantic pact encompassing almost half the world’s economy, divisions remain over opening up to each others goods, rules governing the names of foods and genetically modified food ...“There is an enormous gulf between the EU and US positions,” http://lnkd.in/beWBzgT View in LinkedIn