Real Food Challlenge marches against TPP in Baltimore

On the 12th of January, Real Food Challenge marched to the Baltimore office of Rep Elijah Cummings. A delegation met with Rep Cummings, who until now had not made any public commitments concerning this ugly repeat of NAFTA. Asked to take a stand, Rep Cummings told the delegation he was opposed to the TPP or Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. This statement may cost him corporate donations but will win him votes.

On a related note, House speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday, Feb 11 that the TPP would be defeated if it were voted on in Congress now. "I don't think the votes are there right now because of the concerns about what's in the TPP," he was quoted by CBS News as saying at he weekly press conference.