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Monday, 18 August, 2003 |
KickAAS stands for Kick All Agricultural Subsidies.
It's a new blog that clearly wants to abolish all agricultural subsidies:
"Eat the last free lunch in economics. Everyone gains. Abolition would save Western governments over $300 billion a year (equivalent to a cashback of over $200 for everyone) while giving a huge boost to agriculture in developing countries. Poor countries could sell products - like sugar, cereals and skimmed milk - they are much better suited to produce. At the moment they are being undercut even in their own domestic markets by subsidised Western produce. Sometimes trade is better than aid. And it costs nothing."
But prices here and over there would go up, surely. However, that would be a good thing to fight western obesity, which in its turn would reduce health care costs.
Farms would become bankrupt and disappear too.
This won't be easy. Anyway, this is an interesting Guardian initiative.
1:08:11 PM 
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© Copyright 2003 Hetty Litjens.
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