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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks: TPP To Be Signed This Week [View all]ancianita
(36,053 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 30, 2015, 09:04 PM - Edit history (1)
because of the global conditions of food, its accessibility, quality and quantity. Access to nutritious, affordable food? Not likely. Our kids/grandkids wont know whats in it or where it comes from.
Hell, if nothing is done on the SCOTUS front to end TPP, and given the new 3rd world level of minimum wage they earn after the next few years, theyll probably stand in lines for government rations. And we all know how THAT looks bags of bean/grains, dairy and meat supplements from whatever wealthier countries didnt sign on to the TPP. Look at how our trading partners' children eat now. That's their future.
They wont afford to eat out, even for family occasions -- IF families arent split up when members go abroad to look for work to pay for their housing's taxes and maintenance -- except at the cheapest franchises, owned by god knows who of the TPP partners, who employ people at pay they cant even spend on the food they serve.
Sure, there will be eateries, but not populated by working America. It will be the cost of living that keeps American workers unable to afford nutritious, SAFE food. The stresses of making a living will take their toll, as TV, Internet become more unaffordable. Maybe theyll stop caring, anyway, about seeing the ads that cater to the 1%.