>Why should
>it be surprising that resistance to capitalist/imperialist globalization
>in agriculture might come in the first instance from peasants in the
>more "advanced" countries?
Bove makes a fragrant Roqeufort (there's a pic at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/SeattleMonday.html>). I'd hate a world in which McD's squeezes out high-end cheese. But that's not really the whole story in ag trade. It makes a lot of sense to me that Japan and Korea should import grains and other bulky staples - their land isn't really friendly towards growing that sort of thing.
By the way, there's more than a touch of Poujade about Bove too, isn't there? I didn't think that socialists had much in common with the reactionary petit bourgeoisie. As Robert Graham wrote in the FT's obit for Poujade:
>It has found significant echoes in both the stance of Jean-Marie Le
>Pen, the leader of the extreme rightwing National Front, and the
>support base for Jose Bové, the anti-globalisation activist and
>leader of the radical small farmers' organisation.
Is this wrong?
Doug