Posted on 08/01/2021 11:03:35 AM PDT by Meah
Supporters say that could reverse years of damage from U.S. trade policy.
Last month, on her first international trip as Vice President, Kamala Harris offered a blunt message to Mexican and Central American migrants considering “the dangerous trek” to the United States: “Do not come.” Rather than quell waves of migration through punitive measures at the border, she said, the Biden administration would encourage people to remain in their own countries by focusing on programs that provide “hope at home.”
The administration’s idea (at least in theory) is to focus on root causes for the departure, rather than crack down on those who are vulnerable—or desperate—enough to risk the journey. But any attempt at genuine reform will need to weigh the impact of U.S. trade policies on poverty abroad, particularly relating to food and agriculture.
Mexico is now the United States’ single largest agricultural trading partner, largely the result of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a treaty enacted in 1994 that eliminated tariffs on the majority of goods produced and traded between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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Root causes? I seem to remember Kennedy’s “Alliance for Progress” decades ago, intending to address the very same issues.
Yeah, the only stuff worse than glyphosate is every alternative to it.
Is there anybody left?
Mexican and Mexican/American obesity is largely because of two things. GMO corn and hydrogenated lard.
Yeah, she found a past idea and made it look like her own.
Isn’t most corn we eat GMO? It’s just been called hybrid for decades.
When are we going tp phase out slow poison as a crop additive?
the next step is for the U.S. to add Mexico (and the other countries who are sending all their people to us) as States. We are going to need more land to feed them.
Tell that to the Cartels’ Agriculture division.
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