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With the TTIP, "our farmers can not compete with the agri monsters" (27/11/2015)

The MEP can Lola Sanchez said today in an act of Murcia's change that with the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, currently under negotiation, "our farmers can not compete with US agricultural monsters."

"Farms and US crops are thirteen times higher than European, quoting some traded, making their products are much cheaper than European," he said today at a round table organized by us change Murcia in which they were also attended by the Councillor and Margarita Guerrero activist Pedro Luengo Ecologists in Action.

The treaty, which the MEP branded a "coup multinational" aims to match the low European legislation with the US, which will mean fewer labor rights and lower environmental protection or health coverage.

Margarita Guerrero, Councillor Murcia's change, warned of the risk to the government: "Local democracy as we know it is at risk."

The participation of SMEs in public tenders could be challenged in international arbitration courts against large international.

Pedro Luengo, Ecologists in Action said that food security will be seriously affected with the entry TTIP without sanitary controls of American products.

For example, "when there's use of growth hormones in cattle that are not exactly friendly to the consumer is allowed."

Source: Cambiemos Murcia

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