The WTO: Have We Traded Away Our Right to Protect Animals?

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The WTO: Have We Traded Away Our Right to Protect Animals?

 

The WTO may have been great for free trade, but as far as animals are

concerned, the WTO is the single most destructive international organization

ever formed. WTO rulings can reach any animal, anywhere, and at any time.

Nothing is sacred in the eyes of the WTO, so regulations on handling,

slaughtering, and care of animals as well as those governing trapping,

pollution, and habitat destruction are all fair game. And whenever a nation

has challenged an animal protection regulation, the WTO has ruled that

regulation to be an illegal trade barrier. The nation that has enacted the

offending rules must either change its law or pay a heavy financial penalty.

The nation usually prefers to change the law.

 

http://www.hsus.org/wto/index.html