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Us- Eu Food and Agriculture Comparisons
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Proctor, Kevin Mclarney, Carolan |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This paper gives a comparison about how the United States and the European Union use different risk assessment processes for approving the use of biotechnologies in their food and by their agricultural industry, and how this has impacted their trading relationship over the last 27 plus years. Food and agriculture products are an important part of trade agreements because it allows countries to benefit from their comparative advantage, where they might be able to produce food products more effectively and efficiently and at lower costs compared to other countries. Effectiveness in food production can be achieved by increasing access to global research and biotechnologies, and efficiencies can be achieved by gaining access to global regions of the world where different climates allow crops to grow at different times of the year. Cost savings can be achieved from being able to produce crops in countries where farmland and labour costs are cheaper. The concerns with producing food and agricultural products more efficiently, effectively and cheaper are that some biotechnologies used in one country may not align with a trading partner's social values and religious beliefs, notwithstanding, the environmental and health concerns that may occur. There has been many trade disputes between the EU and the US about food and agricultural trade. This paper explores the reasons for these trade disputes from both the EU and US perspective, and goes into some detail about the EU's ban on growth hormone-treated meat and their moratorium on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), and how they have worked through their differences. The main reasons for their differences are the inputs the US uses to produce their end food and agricultural products, which are growth hormones and GMOs. The paper ends with a review of how agricultural and food trade relations between the EU and US impact Canada's food and agricultural trade relationships with both countries. The key considerations are the impacts for using biotechnologies and how their use can impact trade relationships. |
| Starting Page | 84 |
| Ending Page | 103 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.garph.co.uk/IJARMSS/Jan2015/10.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
