Vilsack Pokes At Major EU TTIP Red Lines On GMOs, Hormone Beef

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week staked out an aggressive position on two of the European Union's major red lines in bilateral U.S.-EU trade talks, saying the United States wants to synchronize the approval of bio-engineered crops and strongly hinting that the U.S. will urge the EU to drop its ban on beef raised with growth hormones. The U.S. and EU settled a U.S. challenge of the EU's ban at the World Trade Organization with a 2009 memorandum of...