Anti-Competition The U.S. dairy industry complains that the EU’s effort to codify geographic indicator (GI) protection for its various cheese products is an effort to dismantle competition and erect barriers to trade. In many respects, the merger of food and technology provides a similar benefit to producers. By using biotechnology, material science and other approaches, the food industry creates products that are more impervious to competition due to their high cost of entry and reduced comparative products. Thus, Brussels tries to keep out new technology products by arguing they are unsafe, while Washington promotes technology and tries to defeat GIs.   Wrong Places Country music performer Johnny Lee sang about looking for...

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