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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] OT Thought Provoking (or maybe just provoking:)
  • Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 22:21:49 -0500

If you don't believe me look what's happened to Mexico since NAFTA. Most of the Florida winter tomato growers are now out of business. Winter tomatoes have moved to Mexico. And was this good for the Mexican farmers (obviously it wasn't good for the Florida grower unless they sold their farm land to build townhouses on)? No, they were forced off their land and the land the family peasant farmers worked has been turned into agricorporations, using labor that is being paid an unliveable wage, even in Mexico.

Leigh - This move actually started BEFORE NAFTA, due to Florida weather becoming increasingly 'unpredictable.' Of course, the multi-nationals must have been psychic, because NAFTA sort of sewed up the value of being in Mexico for them.

I have heard that besides running traditional farmers off from their land that the multi-nationals also received guarantees of 'impossible' quantities of water. Do you know anything about this?

-Allan




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