German Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt cautioned a Washington audience that his countrymen lack confidence in American production practices such as chlorinated chicken and GMOs, but later made a concession regarding his own institute's conclusions. TTIP Divide German Minister of Agriculture Christian Schmidt cautioned a Washington audience that his countrymen lack confidence in American production practices such as chlorinated chicken and GMOs (vis-à-vis the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership [TTIP]). He later conceded that his own institute concluded that neither American nor German chicken is completely safe and suggested that perhaps labeling is the way to address biotech foods. However, he then charged that the u...