What's For Dinner?

Lori Hylton is a Presbyterian Hunger Fellow in the New York Hudson River Presbytery and Jed Koball is Presbyterian mission co-worker in Lima, Peru. As participants in Joining Hands Against Hunger Peru (JHAH-PERU), an ecumenical and democratic network of organizations and churches throughout Peru, Lori and Jed are organizing to halt Fast Track and the multilateral proposed TPP after seeing investor state protections in the bilateral Peru USA Free Trade agreement invoked against Peru. JHAH-PERU documented poisoning of children in the 35,000 person town of la Oroya by a multi-metal smelter run by the Renco Group. It reneged on an agreement to reduce environmental levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic levels and is suing the state of Peru for $800 million of alleged lost profits.