> >And against all supposed
> >capitalist free market rules, farmers continue to grow food at an
economic
> >loss.
>
> I'm not sure to understand what you mean. Some farmers have gone out of
> business. Quite a lot over the years as a result of low prices. I don't
know much
> about the US, but why would it only be happening in Europe with similar
policies?
In the US, almost all our "family farms" have gone out of business.
Extinction is inevitable. Big agri-business is heavily subsidized by the
government, which is not consistent with the "free market," but the notion
that capitalism and the "free" market are synonymous has always been
capitalist propaganda. Consolidation of enterprise into monopolistic
organizations is also accompanied by more direct integration with the state.
It's the only way to manage foreign trade. We force Haitians to sell their
rice--which they grow enough of to feed their entire population--as an
export product, then sell them subsidized US rice at anoutrageously
unaffordable price. This is characteristic of imperialism.
None of this changes the fact that when the supply of food falls to a given
aggregate level, then starvation, somewhere, somehow, is inevitable. The
increasing share of food grown through mechanization along with the steady
depletion of petroleum upon which this method of production depends moves us
inexorably closer to an ever more severe disaster when it happens.
Stan
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