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EcoWatch: "Celebrity Chef Jamie Oliver Warns U.S. Food Not Safe for Britain
He has announced that he’s embarking on a campaign to stop the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), which many feel allows corporate interests to trump government regulations and even citizen initatives.
His particular beef? U.K. restrictions on growth hormones and pesticides in food are stricter than those in the U.S. He wants to ensure that food imported from the U.S. meets British standards and that British standards are not lowered to cover U.S. imports.
Oliver told The Times of London that TTIP “has the capacity to be very negative to British public health and British companies and British farmers.”
He told The Times: We don’t have hormones in our meat, that’s banned. But not over there. We don’t have hundreds of poisons and pesticides that have been proven to be carcinogenic. They do. Their laws, their set-up, their safety regulations are nowhere near ours."