Protesting Mexican dairy farmers demand farm subsidies [or they'll migrate with their cows]

Canada.com ^ | 6-16-04

[hoot2]

"OK, I'll bite, you spotted an elk with a small rack in Mexico? "

yes. but they taste like "beef". who knew?

[hoot2]

... forced to migrate to the United States with their cows ...

[hattend]

Short-Horned Spotted Elk

[I_saw_the_light]

give every illegal alien a cow as soon as they enter the country

ROFL!!!

[Congressman Billybob]

Is our southern border so pourous that even cows can make it through? Holy cow.

John / Billybob

[Iberian]

That is hilarious. LOL

[Iberian]

You are right. Both goverments F45k the farmers. The farmer, the true American, the ultimate frontier before a dozen or so control our food.

They produce our food for God's sake.

[Iberian]

That works. :)

[FITZ]

They do have a right to be angry --- that's for sure --- many of the millions of illegals now in this country were done in by NAFTA --- a decade or two ago, they had jobs and incomes in Mexico --- after NAFTA their only hope is to become cheap servants in the USA.

[FITZ]

has been demanding the Mexican government control milk prices to no avail, Solis said.

Poor campesinos --- they haven't caught on yet how deliberate this was, it was all meant to destroy them. The Mexican government never thought NAFTA would help them --- Salinas --- the corrupt president of Mexico who signed NAFTA spoke of how 25 million campesinos had to be gotten rid of. They knew full well the millions of farmers would be destroyed but that was the whole point of NAFTA.

[gubamyster]

ping

[A CA Guy]

Looks like we are going to be shooting ourselves some steaks on this side of the border.

[Iberian]

Great point FITZ.

[Old Professer]

Oh goody, now we won't have to pay shipping costs for the Listeria.

[Happy2BMe]

HAVE A COW (at the border) - ping.

[junta]

"Creative Destruction" bttt

[The Old Hoosier]

The problem for them isn't NAFTA--NAFTA should have helped them. The problem is our farm subsidy program. It gives American farmers an unfair competitive advantage.

[FITZ]

The Mexican government knew all along about the farm subsidies and it knew the campesinos were also at a very high disadvantage because they weren't mechanized like USA farmers. NAFTA was meant to destroy the campesinos. Salinas de Gortari himself --- a signer of NAFTA discussed the need to get rid of 25 million campesinos.

[The Old Hoosier]

We promised to abolish our subsidies through Freedom to Farm. Unfortunately, we lied, and now we're back on the old regime of subsidies. NAFTA is not to blame for the Mexicans' woes--it should theoretically help them. The problem is our domestic farm subsidies, which hurt the whole rest of the third world as well.

We could stop sending foreign aid to these places altogether if we'd just stop undercutting their crop prices with our subsidies.

[FITZ]

If we broke our promises so that we're destroying millions of Mexican farmers --- which we are doing I realize --- if their government had their best interests in mind, it would break off with NAFTA and let the farmers get back to their farms.