Open Left

If there is not a "food" element to this

it will be the same old thing.  Labor and environmental world standards are needed.  But the guerilla in the room is Monsanto and big AG.  Monsanto bribes legislatures in countries like Mali in Africa to put a law requiring farmers to only buy Monsanto seed rather than the 1000 year custom of using your own seed corn. (See John Perkins' Secret History of American Empire).  This was written into the constitution in Iraq (See Naomi Klein).

A diary here from The Green Fork exposed Monsanto's drive to buy up seed companies.  The documentary "The Future of Food" just aired in the U.S. but has been seen around the world since 2004.  A professor at Berkeley talks about how he has been harassed for studying the negatives of GMOs.

Fair Trade means buying directly from chocolate growers and giving those farmers fair price.  

Fair Trade means not flooding countries with our cheap subsidized pop tarts.  

Let's see what this guy does and let's educate him that we actually know what is really going on.

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by: FeralCat @ Wed Apr 01, 2009 at 10:25:23 AM CDT