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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (2073)	9/23/2002 12:04:30 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) of 3959

Re: Most of what you name are fads, food is serious business. Indeed, and I'd add that for Europe's bloated agribusiness, it's serious MONEY as well.... The point is that I don't buy Europe's worry about health hazards with GM foods --that's just a convenient pretense to conceal Europe's unwillingness to "streamline" its agriculture. After all, just ask environment-conscious Euros about, say, nuclear plants... Ever heard of France/Belgium's powerful nuclear lobby?? guardian.co.uk Excerpt: Oxfam ranks Europe first according to an index which measures protectionism by the world's biggest trading powers, followed by the US, Canada and Japan. They impose the highest trade barriers against the industries of most importance to poor countries: agriculture and textiles. Oxfam estimates that high tariffs and subsidies cost poor countries $100bn (£70bn) a year - twice as much as they receive in aid. [...]

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