By Dr. Joseph Mercola
Guest Writer for Wake Up World
Despite strong opposition, on June 24 the US Senate passed the Fast Track bill (known as Trade Promotion Authority or TPA) that gives the President carte blanche to negotiate and finalize free trade deals in complete secrecy, which brings us one step closer to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
The TPP, which appears to be nothing short of a corporate takeover of global powers, has the legal ability to thwart all future attempts at protecting the public from genetically engineered (GE) foods. For this and many other reasons, the TPP must be stopped.
As explained by Ben Beachy and Ben Lilliston in recent interviews, the TPP, which involves the United States and 11 other countries around the Pacific Rim, is a vast expansion of terms already found in the notoriously unpopular North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). If ratified, the TPP will have tremendous ramifications for our health, economy, and environmental protections — not to mention the loss of individual, state, and national rights, as it sets up binding rules that supersede US law.
