[governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd World

[Jeanette Hofmann]

> So here's a practical question: Looking in my own refrigerator just now, 
> I have noticed most of a pack of chillies (cost £0.50) from Morocco, 
> expiry date 22Mar and they have indeed grown some interesting looking 
> mold. But I can't eat chillies quickly enough. So what should I do - not 
> buy them again (smaller packets not available in that shop), 

You should freeze them. That way they last for many months without 
losing their flavour. You defrost them within less than a minute by 
putting them under hot water.

and who
> should public policy seek to protect - Moroccan farmers, or Moroccan 
> consumers - in the event that the UK market for chillies reduces, taking 
> with it the wholesale price.

Aren't Moroccan farmers also consumers? I wonder if this is really an 
either/ or situation. Besides, there might be good reasons to produce 
and buy food locally even if this implies higher prices. Avoiding long 
distant transport, might be one, desirable qualities such as taste or 
organic production methods might be reasons and poverty is certainly 
also one.

jeanette
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