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New CPA YouTube Video - Sickening Chinese Imports

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New YouTube Video - Sickening Chinese Imports

June 28, 2007
 
The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) released today a YouTube video, "Sickening Chinese Imports," narrated by longtime investigative reporter Vince Wade.  The video describes globalization's impact on food safety, and the need for country of origin labeling.  The video also reveals House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson's service to food industry lobbyists attempting to prevent consumers from knowing the source of their food.

The web address for "Sickening Chinese Imports" is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rht3Q5pV-rQ .

The Coalition for a Prosperous America is a coalition of farmers, ranchers and manufacturers working for new and positive trade policies that serve the U.S. economy and its citizens.
 

 
CPA letter on Dept of Commerce proposed China trade regulation

June 25, 2007

The Hon. David Spooner
Assistant Secretary for Import Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce
Central Records Unit, Room 1870
Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20230
   
Re:  Federal Register Notice (May 25, 2007 – Volume 72, Number 101) – Regarding Antidumping Methodologies in Proceedings Involving Certain Non-Market Economies: Market-Oriented Enterprise

Dear Mr. Spooner:

The Coalition for a Prosperous America is a diversified coalition consisting of companies, farms and farm organizations, trade associations and individuals that are based in the United States and committed to a fair trade agenda.  The coalition spans the interests of manufacturers, farmers, livestock producers and others who have become energized to change the unacceptable path this country is taking in international trade matters.

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CPA study of Mexico/China food safety
Ames, Iowa
June 21, 2007

The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) today urged all Americans to contact their state’s congressional delegation and demand that our government take emergency action to protect our nation’s food supply from contaminated and potentially deadly food imports.

“This is a matter of Homeland Security at the most basic level. Our increasingly globalized food supply chain, where anything goes in order to make a buck, is putting our entire nation’s health at risk,” said Fred Stokes, president of the CPA.
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Congressional Testimony
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