Trade negotiators promised that “development” of the world’s poorer nations would be at the top of their agenda during negotiations over new trade rules that the World Trade Organization members launched two years ago. They planned to focus on agriculture, since the vast majority of people in poor countries still work the land as small landowning peasants or as rural laborers.… return to article
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Reader Comments (7)Page 1 of 1 pagesIt is pretty obvious that WTO really stands for
Wealthy Tyrannical Overlords. They car not
what or who they hurt.
Posted by chris on Sep 10, 2003 at 3:22 PM Having grown up on a farm for the better part of my life, I can quite fully understand the pain of farmers from around the world.
Both Nafta and WTO should be scrapped or else the power of Big Business should be eliminated along with AgriFarms.
Just what happens to all of us if and when a world wide drought happens and no one is able to farm or produce. It would be chaos indeed and would not take long for the silos etc to empty. Once the farm is destroyed there is nothing to replace it and the AgriFarms could not possibly produce sufficient food for everyone.
Almost sounds like a recipe for the annilhation of a great portion of humanity…..
Posted by Frances Greenfield on Sep 10, 2003 at 9:08 PM It certainly does sound like a recipe for annilihation-and how smart is that ? It seems to me that this is a pattern of short term thinking that is abundant among the current powers that be. They seem to have forgotten that if they eliminate the people with their greed and oppression, they’ll be no one to buy their crap but themselves..
Posted by Kate on Sep 11, 2003 at 8:44 AM When have the working ,midddle class or the poor ever been anything but capitalized by corporate America?greed begets greed.
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