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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton, the TPP, and Protecting Our Food [View all]Koinos
(2,792 posts)At present, seafood is labeled according to where it is packed and distributed, not according to where it is caught. Some seafood caught in contaminated areas near Japan is frozen on ships and packaged in other countries. With the passage of TPP, we will know even less about food from Japan; and, since Japan will be a party to the agreement and Japanese companies will be able to sue us for not accepting contaminated products they deem "safe," our FDA will have its hands tied even more than it does now. How about Japanese beef and pork as well? And Japanese rice can be found in every US grocery. Even the Japanese people don't know which rice comes from the area near Fukushima, since Japan has been deliberately mixing it with rice from other areas.