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The EU's Beef with US Beef
Posted on November 09, 2004
If you've watched The Meatrix then you know about the serious problems of US agribusiness. The entertaining short illustrates how factory farming is problematic from environmental, ethical, economic and health perspectives.
The Meatrix underscores the dangers of factory farming, including the use of antibiotics and hormones in animals.
The European Union has been critical of US and Canadian agricultural practices for a long time and maintains much stricter regulations on GMOs and other biological technologies. In recent years, the issue has become the center of global trade conflicts — the EU decided to ban all imports of US and Canadian beef because of the hormone levels. In retaliation, the US and Canada imposed sanctions on the EU, and now these sanctions are being contested. Find out about the international trade battle and get the facts about the effects of hormones in beef.