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To: Bert Herman who wrote (108907)	5/1/2000 4:40:00 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1576767

OT If I go on holiday to the southern countries and see how the farmers there are working and compare it to our farmers, it's a culture shock. This is probably not a problem you can solve with a few simple tricks. But letting it all over on the free market will be a masacre and will have extreme political concequences and maybe mean the end of the EEC. I'm not saying it has to be done overnight, but a free market should be the goal and steps should be taken to achieve that goal. As for the end of the EEC, IMHO a free market in food (and preferably not just food), would be more useful than the EEC... Tim

To: Bert Herman who wrote (108907)	5/1/2000 6:22:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576767

Bert, OT You can't have it all. A complete free market, no subsidies and a decent food production in every part of Europe. I think European's are paying dearly for for lofty concept as "decent food production in every part of Europe", which just translates to a money grab by the politically connected farmers at expense of everyone else. Who suffers most at expense of the European farmers are the farmers in the poorest countries of the world. Food is just about the only thing they can offer as trade to the rich countries. So these poor countries remain poor. The Europeans send them some pocket change as foreign aid, to make Europeans feel good about themselves, rather than open their markets. The United States are not perfect by any means, but to me, the policies of Japan and Europe are obsene in the area of farm trade. Joe