On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Gar Lipow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems overwhelmingly mainstream economic opinion that Japanese rice > protection is without justification, with huge costs to Japanese > consumers and no benefits. Is this a case where the mainstream is > right, or are there legit food securit and social welfare arguments to > be made for being able to produce a staple locally? It is always > interesting to look at the poster children for the conventional > wisdom.
Isn't there a strong environmental sustainability argument for growing food locally? In the case of poor countries there is also a strong argument to be made for food self-sufficiency for national security and stability. -raghu. -- The first Christian gets the hungriest lion. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
