🚀 go-pugleaf

It seems that pressure from WTO means Australia is going to overturn its 
90-year ban on importation of NZ apples, not because the dreaded fire blight 
has gone away, but merely due to the trendy globalisation of trade (Free 
Trade).
   Australia's 1,500 orchardists are not happy of course, not so much about 
increased competition, but that they may be wiped out by the disease.
   Why does New Zealand need to export its apples?  Probably to increase 
national income, or, at least, the income of their farmers.  More profit.
    Certainly, every nation should try to be agriculturally independent - as 
Britain found during WWII when German "wolf packs" were sinking merchant 
shipping.
     But while the internal national market should suffice, there is greed 
for profit, which makes every nation vie for markets overseas - spurred on 
by over-production.
     Action Man is everywhere, which is one reason the oceans are being 
fished out: we can't leave anything alone.
     While Australia's fore-fathers, in their wisdom, set up strict 
Quarantine regulations, of which banning NZ apples was one good case; should 
this now be overturned solely on basis of some Free Trade mantra?  Has fire 
blight been eliminated?
      Alright, go ahead.  But if a class action is subsequently launched, 
against both WTO and NZ, then where is the profit?