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Article #5240Re: pesticides
From: dgreen
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1987 08:27
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1987 08:27
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In article <3635@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> walton@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Walton) writes:
>It isn't that simple. We have food surpluses in the EEC and the US
>precisely because we've shown the rest of the world how to grow more
>food, and they can do it more cheaply now than we can, yet we continue
>to subsidize our farmers. Irrational, yes, but not the cause of
>hunger.
Like everything, farmer subsidization isn't that simple either. Like
domestic oil production, domestic farming has some national defense
value. Independence from foreign oil and foreign food means we aren't
as interested in mucking with other countries' affairs, and likewise,
they don't have as much control over us.
Dan Greening Internet dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ucla-cs!dgreen From: dgreen@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.bio,sci.misc Subject: Re: pesticides Message-ID: <7764@shemp.UCLA.EDU> Date: Tue, 18-Aug-87 04:27:48 EDT Article-I.D.: shemp.7764 Posted: Tue Aug 18 04:27:48 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Aug-87 07:24:13 EDT References: <4960@ihlpa.ATT.COM> <246@etn-rad.UUCP> <7952@mimsy.UUCP> <10850@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <1452@terminus.UUCP> <3635@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Sender: root@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: dgreen@CS.UCLA.EDU (Dan R. Greening) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 17