World Trade Organization tries to ban dolphin-safe tuna

[AptaMer]

http://theantimedia.org/ban-on-tuna-labeled-dolphin-safe-shows-how-tpp-will-crush-consumer-rights/

[SweeteSiren]

Wow. I keep waiting for the punchline, but my God, this seems to be a real article. Time to ban tuna again...

[Spindrift]

The AntiMedia has been called a conspiracy website in the past before. Also a breeding ground for paranoia. It's run by the founder of March Against Monsanto, Nick Bernbabe. But I can totally see this as a thing that is happening. Media stuff is tough - hard to tell who is telling the truth and who is misinformed.

[AptaMer]

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you . . . LOL :shark:

This is real

http://www.allgov.com/news/us-and-the-world/world-trade-organization-rules-us-cannot-use-dolphin-safe-labels-for-tuna-151128?news=857950

but as usual, there are nuances to the story. The Mexican argument was that the US standards for labelling tuna as dolphin-safe were so low, that the label is kind of meaningless, and therefore they shouldn't enhance the competitiveness of US tuna brands vis-a-vis the Mexican ones. Kind of a lowest-common-denominator thing rather than working to keep the dolphins safer.

http://www.ictsd.org/bridges-news/biores/news/tuna-labelling-and-the-wto-how-safe-is-dolphin-safe

[Spindrift]

Sounds like a giant mess :(

[Echidna]

People here have been fighting against the TTP agreement for years, but we are powerless to do anything in this dictatorship posing as de-mock-cracy.
I begin to doubt there ever was a more corrupt and screwed-up time in history.

WTB ticket off this planet, please.