These laws were made into reality, by ordinary citizens, through a combination of grassroots organizing and public pressure placed upon elected officials. The people involved with the proceedings are hand picked by the heads of multinational corporations and the discussions take place with no mechanism for public input. I hardly consider GM, Sony or the World Bank as important as the United Nations. These guys don't want your opinion for it just might destroy the little fantasy world they're attempting to create for themselves. Nations have been trading with each other for many centuries.
Multinational corporations fear the people of planet Earth.
They are appealing to a self-appointed higher authority, namely themselves, to circumvent any laws aimed at protecting humans, animals, or the environment. When the self-appointed higher beings came West thumping their bibles during the colonial period, the existing laws of the Native People were deemed savage and arrogantly overturned, if not ignored entirely. It has taken hundreds of years for grassroots efforts to put protections of humans and animals back into place. Well, I don't feel savage or unfair when I declare that all living things have a right to exist here in peace. Once these 'laws' are permanently in place, nothing short of a very long, drawn out and bloody revolution will be able to stop them.