Pregnant Mom Discusses TPP Food Safety Fears in New AFL-CIO Trade Video
WASHINGTON – As Mother’s Day approached, the AFL-CIO released a video featuring a pregnant mom who’s concerned that the secrecy around food labeling and regulations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could negatively impact her unborn child.
“American families deserve to know that the food on their dinner tables is safe.” said AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
“The TPP will undermine U.S. food safety regulations and once again put the greed of corporations ahead of the safety of working families. This is unacceptable.”
“As an expectant mother I already have a lot of anxiety when it comes to doing grocery shopping and trying to figure out what I can trust,” said Katrina Dizon Mariategue. “We don’t know what type of additives or antibiotics are being put into our food. Some of the stuff might not even be specified in labels. I think it’s a very terrifying thought.”
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Editor’s note: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multi-national backroom trade agreement that gives corporations (like Monsanto) in tandem with world governments complete free reign on creating laws and trade without consulting the public at all – nor was the public ever consulted about these negotiations. It affects every facet of your life down to a bite of food at the end of your fork and the web page you’re looking at right now – if you aren’t outraged, you’re not paying attention. Please research it and <<<take action>>> at the bottom of this link. Let your Reps know that you are concerned about food and agriculture.
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The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions. The AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and truck drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and laborers-and more.
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