Free Republic

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. For decades, the American farm lobby has been duped by the Big Business lobby and "free trade" ideologues into supporting trade agreements that have opened the U.S. market to foreign rivals and that have allowed transnational corporations to shift factories and jobs overseas. Farmers have been content to watch their neighbors in manufacturing devastated so long as their own position was protected. Now, it is the farmers' turn to be thrown to the wolves in the Doha Round of negotiations, which hinge on the 'liberalization" of international agricultural trade and the...