Early campaigns had a distinct focus on food safety and environmental concerns, including class action lawsuits against illegal oil industry cartels.
However, we strongly disagree with the editorial’s unsupported assumption that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as it is currently being negotiated would benefit consumers.
From what we know about the TPP text, it would undermine these critical consumer priorities, not promote them.Since 1996, CUJ has been the center of the opposition to genetically modified food (GMO)[3] in Japan, starting the "No!
In what may have been the world’s first protest against a genome edited GMO food product, the GABA tomato, activists from Consumers Union of Japan and the No!
[5] In 2005, CUJ was highly critical of the resumption of imports to Japan of beef from the United States due to fears about BSE.