Religions > Atheism > OT: Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa
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22 Jun 2005 03:27:05 AM |
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OT: Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa |
Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=3D648740
By Maxine Frith, Social Affairs Correspondent
22 June 2005
One is an English aristocrat worth =A335m with 9,000 acres and an 18th
century manor house; the other earns less than =A3300 a year cutting
sugar cane for 12 hours a day in rural Mozambique to support his
parents and four brothers.
The link between the two, and the reason why one has continued to
increase his wealth while the other faces losing what he has, is the
=A31.34bn a year EU sugar regime. Aid agencies are calling for reform of
a system that costs some of the poorest countries millions of pounds
each year in lost trade.
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| User: "Razor 616" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa |
23 Jun 2005 05:17:40 AM |
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On 22 Jun 2005 01:27:05 -0700, "maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa
Yes, yes, it's all our fault they can't support themselves, I'm sure.
But let's not forget who *initiated* and *maintained* those subsidies
for decades.
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#1295
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| User: "muldoon" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa |
22 Jun 2005 10:16:26 AM |
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this is a test
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Bitter harvest: How EU sugar subsidies devastate Africa |
22 Jun 2005 02:15:38 PM |
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"muldoon" <brian9511@dslextreme.com> wrote in
news:1119453386.092337.30160@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
this is a test
Ahhh......but of what ?
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Jez, MBA.,
Country Dancing and Advanced Astrology, UBS.
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
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