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To: walford
You're not going to find any nation in the developed world that does not subsidize their agriculture. If there is any such thing as "fair" welfare, it is agricultural subsidies - we all eat relatively the same amount, rich or poor and pay less of our income for food than undeveloped countries.
The problems in African nations are multifold - social, political, technical, lack of development capital, etc. It is not, however, GM products offered to them for FREE.
2 posted on 06/18/2003 4:49:27 PM PDT by caisson71
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To: caisson71
The problems in African nations are multifold.... It is not, however, GM products offered to them for FREE.

Actually it is, in the context of billthedrill's post. The EU will ban food crops exported from a country if they think they might have accidently been crossbred/received genes from GM crops. In the same way that meat is banned from countries with uncontrolled anthrax, and now madcow, the EU fears that a crop can accidently cross-contaminate if GM grains are in the vicinity. This is an insidious game they're playing, not based on science, but on an irrational belief system. Very strange for a cultural which considers itself so much more sophisticated that the US regarding "beliefs."

Africa needs to develop markets and not be redlined because of European superstition. It has its problems to be sure, but at some point, it will have a generation that can make it work.

Besides, the EU needs to give up its superstitions and join the modern world.

6 posted on 06/19/2003 2:39:52 AM PDT by happygrl
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