Food is Different : Why We Must Get the WTO out of Agriculture PDF
by Peter M. Rosset
Part of the Global Issues series
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Why does our global food system gives us expensive, unhealthy and bad-tasting food, where we pay more for packaging and long-distance shipping than we do for the food itself? Why do farmers and peasants from around the world lead massive protests each and every time the World Trade Organization meets?Peter Rosset explains how the runaway free trade policies and neoliberal economics of the WTO, American government and European Union kill farmers, and give us a food system that nobody outside of a small corporate elite wants. This essential guide sets out an alternative vision for agricultural policy, taking it completely out of the WTO's ambit.
Food is not just another commodity, to be bought and sold like a microchip, but something which goes to the heart of human livelihood, culture and society.
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- Pages:193 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/02/2008
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- ISBN:9781848130647
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:193 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:29/02/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9781848130647
