How can anyone -- yeah, you America-firsters, intolerant of dissent -- hate a newspaper like the Guardian, when it launches a campaign like this. The Guardian, with an editorial and a kickAAS website, is tilting against the barriers the developed world puts up against free trade in farm goods. It's the banner that globalization protestors, if they really cared about the poor of the developing world, would carry. Trade barriers and subsidies in the US, Europe and Japan cripple sugarcane growers, cotton pickers, and millions of other farm workers in Latin America and Africa. It's a crime, against free-market principles, as well as global justice. And the Guardian, whether or not one agrees with their stance on the war, at least has the moral passion and intellectual consistency to identify the root cause: Western governments' craven surrender to the farm lobby.
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