[plazul]

Do you think food prices would go down in Europe if American crops weren't subsidized and Europe took down all of its barriers? Would you rather have us put *all* of our vast agricultural land into production and let the winner take all? On that sort of *level* playing field the American family farm would totally disappear and big agribusiness would blow European farmers out of the water. Also, the last time I checked France was doing a pretty good job at protecting its farmers.

I think you're talking about genetically engineered crops being an issue in Europe but with world hunger reaching crisis proportions I'm not very sympathetic to that unscientific concern particularly when I hear that distribution of food supplies in Africa is being blocked by food production activists.

If Europe doesn't want it, fine, but don't expect America to bend over for European agricultural exporters if that's the case.

Globalization is affecting us all but instead of pointing fingers at each other we should create international laws forbidding labor exploitation, product dumping, and state subsidization of greedy multinationals.

(btw, is food taxed in Europe?)