RE: POLITICS: Agriculture subsidies

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 01:11:36 MDT


At 10:23 AM 6/16/02 +1000, Colin wrote:

>Or is there some strategic need to prop it all up that isn't obvious to me.
>[We need our farmers to make unsellable stuff
>because..........BTSOOM]

Leaving aside the influence of the very rich (in this case agribiz) upon
those who make political decisions:

The agrarian mythos?

Some hangover from a folk sentiment that a nation should at least be able
to feed itself?

Damien Broderick



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