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To: goldsnow who wrote (16747)	7/3/2000 4:08:42 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 17770

Re: José Bové. I think a crucial challenge for Jose Bove lies in decoupling his anti-international-big-business creed from plain anti-Americanism.... Jose Bove keeps pledging he is no Yankee-basher, however, his favorite targets are US multinationals --he still has to vandalize a Sony Corp. outfit or a Daewoo plant or a Deutsche Bank subsidiary or.... you name it! Jose Bove coined the (French) catchword "mal-bouffe" which can safely be translated as "junkfood" --epitomized by the "infamous" McDonald's. Well, as far as I'm concerned, I bear in mind that most recent food scandals were perpetrated in EUROPE, not in the US: the mad cow plague resulted from British wrong-doings in processing cattle foodstuff; the dioxin poultry scandal revealed Belgian agribusiness' aweful corruption, etc. And EU technocrats have yet to come up with the equivalent of the US's Food & Drug Administration. Over here, Bove is branded as the anti-mondialisation hero, yet, Mr Bove has not elaborated an alternative to globalization's positive outcomes. After all, France is one of the main beneficiaries of big business' FDI. McDonald's currently employs thousands of young French workers and gets all its foodstuff supplied by French farmers. Bove has yet to tell us how he plans to turn them all into Roquefort cheesemakers or into neo-Luddite shepherds.... On the other hand, his political agenda remains appealing: today's unleashed globalization creates as many social havocs and economic hardship as it props up social progress. Hence his call for a "worldwide citizenry" makes sense. The Trilateral Commission, the Bilderberg Club, the Davos fair, etc. all demonstrate that big business and big money can stick together on a worldwide basis --bankers of the world unite! It's probably time for the people to follow suit.... Gus.