article_snippet: Jamie Oliver has warned that a new trade deal with America will open the door to inferior food, including beef pumped up with growth hormones, banned additives and pesticides.
article_snippet: The campaigner and chef held talks this week with Business Secretary Vince Cable to outline his ‘massive concerns’ that a new trade deal with America could seriously undermine British food and farming.
article_snippet: Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver has held talks with Business Secretary Vince Cable Business Secretary Vince Cable about Jamie Oliver worries that rules to protect food in the UK and Europe could be lost with a new free trade pact .
article_snippet: Campaigner: TV chef Jamie Oliver has long been an advocate of quality food and ingredients and has expressed 'massive concerns' over the potential of a new trade pact with America .
article_snippet: However critics like Jamie Oliver fear Jamie Oliver will expose British families to inferior food and drink which does not meet the higher health and welfare standards that exist in this country and Europe.
article_snippet: Balance: Business Secretary Vince Cable, pictured, told Jamie Oliver Jamie Oliver fears were unfounded .
article_snippet: Writing on Instagram, the chef told followers the chef had been to see the Business Secretary ‘to tell the chef my massive concerns about any possibility of the UK’s and Europe’s Food standards being compromised’.
article_snippet: the chef said: ‘We have fought long and hard to get where We are today and
article_snippet: ’ Mr Cable and the chef officials reassured Jamie that the chef are unfounded, but the chef went on to say: ‘Food is still on the negotiating table and that does mean technically anything can still happen.
article_snippet: However, Adrian Bebb, senior Food Campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe, said: ‘This trade agreement is a Trojan horse that promises jobs but will threaten our food safety, environment and farmers.
article_snippet: A BIS spokesman said: ‘The British Government and European Commission have The British Government and European Commission been clear that food safety standards are not up for negotiation in TTIP and the high standards we enjoy in the UK will never be compromised.
highlights_snippet: Chef spoke to Business Secretary Vince Cable about 'massive concerns'
  US farmers often rear beef on vast factory farm feed lots rather than fields .
  