>Alexandre wrote:
>
>> Good article, Doug, but I think there are many other aspects that
>> arenZt being taken into account... Let the rich countries defend
>> their own agriculture while we will protect our industry and
>> services. This is a better arrangement.
>
>I'm with Alexandre on this one.
I don't see why rich countries should "defend their own agriculture." They're doing plenty of that already, and vast, non-nourishing, deflation-inducing surpluses are the result.
>Those "inefficient" peasants - and the recently pauperized
>urban ex-peasants - are way more than half the world's population.
>If there were the slightest fragment of global democracy, their
>interests would take precedence over _everything_ else.
Did I say anything that contradicted that? What I said was:
>South Korea isn't an impoverished country whose population is
>dominated by a peasantry that would be ruined by opening up to food
>imports--it makes cars and cell phones. Why shouldn't South Korea
>import food?
Doug