[Willie Green]

The beef industry, meanwhile, is at odds with itself over whether to support the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), which would allow the U.S. greater imports from participating countries without tariffs and open markets in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic to U.S. exports.

The transnational corporations pushing for CAFTA care little about exporting to these minor markets. Their objective is to allow imports to drive smaller, domestic producers out of business so that they can acquire the land at pennies on the dollar.

[1rudeboy]

Sorry, Willie, those subsidies you love so much are what forces smaller farms out of business, since the majority of the subsidies go to the largest and wealthiest landholders.