[hedgetrimmer]

Its a trend for even American agriculture to be outsourced.

Its a demand for the "free traders" at the WTO, which our home grown "free traders" are eager to comply.

There is a demand to eliminate high dollar agriculture in the US by these freakin' globalist 'economists'.

A key demand of African cotton producers was met by the commitment to end cotton export subsidies by 2006, though the U.S. would have to do this anyway as a result of losing the recent WTO panel ruling against the cotton regime.

Now no African cotton producer should have so much sway over US producers, d'ya think? Especially since our government is supposed to protect individual rights, not kowtow to the globalist soviet style politics of the WTO. American citizens may decide what they want with cotton export subsidies, but NO OTHER COUNTRY should be able to make demands like this and set the time table to boot.

[junta]

But it all depends on cheap transportaion. It is said that the average food product on the shelves travels 1500 miles before it hits the consumer, but I doubt such arrangements will work out as well in the throes of Peak Oil. IMHO Agribusiness in this country is a huge joke. Its having farmers stand in line for a subsidy payment which they then turn over to a creditor which then constitutes a profit at the Fortune 500 level.