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Headlines : CorporationsDuty-free U.S. corn imports force Mexico GMO debate
Although subsidized U.S. corn exports have been flowing into the Mexican market for over a decade, January 1 will see the lifting of any tariffs that still exist post-NAFTA. As this dispatch implies, the imminent ruin of Mexico’s campesinos at the altar of industrial agribusiness is being used to push GMOs on the wealthier amongst them.
It’s not unlike being force-fed GMOs at gunpoint. Either take the plunge and hope for higher yields, or stick to traditional methods and drown in a flood of corporate corn. Or you could look at it like a pincer-movement – Cargill coming on one flank and Monsanto on the other, with the generals of high finance rubbing their hands in anticipation.
Either way, it’s going to be traumatic. If the protests from early 2007 are anything to go by, it could fuel anger at the Mexican political elite and NAFTA itself. Let’s hope so.
[Posted By Szamko]Republished from Reuters
Cheap U.S. corn will flood into Mexico in January when trade barriers are lifted, pitting local farmers against each other over how to protect the crop that has fed Mexico for thousands of years.
Mexico is to scrap import duties of U.S. corn on January 1, under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, in a move that will allow the world’s No. 1 producer to expand its market in the country that claims to have discovered corn.
Mexican growers are debating whether to turn to genetically modified strains of corn to resist the U.S. challenge, or to mechanize production but keep local corn strains GMO-free.
Posted by Szamko
Just tries to tell the truth.
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“imminent” ruin?
Mexico’s small farmers need to form a consortium with the world’s organic farmers to seek out markets in economies willing to go GMO free by law.
It could happen. Now is not the time to get discouraged.
Off the top of my head I can think of 20.
Zimbabwe’s the only stretch.
Everyone else is in the Caribbean and the High Andes.
Don’t build the platform on Economic Justice. Focus on the links with impotence and stunted growth
Severe food shortages, price spikes threaten world population
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The FAO’s food price index rose by 40 percent this year, on top of the already high 9 percent increase the year before, and the poorest countries spent 25 percent more this year on imported food. The prices for staple crops, including wheat, rice, corn and soybeans, all rose drastically in 2007, pushing up prices for grain-fed meat, eggs and dairy products and spurring inflation throughout the consumer food market.
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Wheat, rice, corn and soybeans. all GMO. FN guarranteed. It’s a huge global market just waiting to be stolen and milked. You can bet the values and pricing on the Global Commodities Index are just as inflated as the ones in Real Estate. It’s the same coked out operators.
It’s the same speculators — shifting to the Commodities. Prices are soaring because they’re freaking out about FUTURES.
And it’s all being used to facilitate tax free capital flight.
Add grain-fed meat, eggs and dairy products when you estimate the size of your target Real Markets for potential investors.
Humble farmers who are productive buy stuff they need. All we gotta do is connect das dots.
Remember : China and India aren’t “developing” so much as they are laundering vapor profits. Cuidado.
Factor for this and this while building your models.
These are costs that are going to have to be met and mitigated.
Here, look at this in light of that :
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Australia and the Ukraine, both significant exporters of wheat, have suffered extreme weather that damaged crops. A prolonged drought in southern Australia has curtailed farming to such a degree that many farmers have sold their land.
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No wonder the hyper-Industrialized states have been “showing interest” in the issue of climate change. It’s quite possible it’s their favorite cover story.
I’m not saying Global Warming is a Myth — just that it’s variables are starting to manifest some rather startling qualities worth considering in more detail.
So, for instance, “effects” that scientists are getting ready to attribute to climate change — like higher infertility in livestock and lower dairy yields — may actually be courtesy of Monsanto.
Beware of writing things off as Acts of God.
How far-fetched could it be that these perverts are selling the cause as the cure?
Bolivia has dispatched the military to operate industrial-scale bread bakeries.
Evo just keeps on rocking. What are ya GONNA do?
On December 17, speculation on wheat and rice for delivery in March 2008 forced prices to historic highs on the Chicago Board of Trade. Wheat jumped to more than $10 a bushel on projections of worsening shortages and inflation. This level is double the $5-a-bushel price of wheat at the beginning of 2007.
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Japan is the largest wheat importer in Asia. Mucho dinero carinos.
Soybean and corn prices have also been pushed up to 34-year and 11-year highs . . .
it’s all GMO. Brand it and leave it in the dust.
One of the things driving the cost of food up is the wonderful new biofuel “idea”. And GW, bless his little buttkuss, has just signed a bill mandating a five-fold growth of the US biofuels market over the next 15 years.
Whadja think? Do these guys know on which side their bread is buttered?
Uh oh Shazam, what happened to your blog? LOL. Lo siento. Really.
Thanks.