Reply #83: We also have destroyed the only income for Mexican farmers

[Judi Lynn]

right in their own homeland. We've bankrupted them right where they live. They are being destroyed by U.S. greed at HOME. How bad is that?

At the same time, Mexican farmers are in dire straits, due in large part to NAFTA. Since 1994, U.S. corn exports to Mexico have increased eighteen-fold as U.S. producers dump massive quantities of cheap corn on the market. The drop in corn prices caused by this dumping has crippled the 15 million Mexicans who rely on corn farming. Another 10 million farmers have been similarly devastated by the collapse in prices for coffee and sugar.

U.S. taxpayers are directly funding the crisis in the Mexican countryside. U.S. agribusiness giants like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill are able to dump corn on the Mexican market because of the massive subsidies they receive from the U.S. government. Such subsidies enable U.S. farmers to produce corn and wheat well below production costs—an advantage not enjoyed by Mexican farmers. While Mexico gives about $720 per year to each farmer, the United States spends $20,800 per farmer. Last year the U.S. Congress approved a $70 billion increase in farm subsidies over the next 10 years.
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http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v18n2/danaher_on_the_run.html

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I read that they had destroyed the livelihood of Mexican sugar cane producers years ago, then later I learned we have also destroyed their corn income. Now I see we have removed their wheat crop incomes.

Taking away their only means of survival leaves them where?

I appreciated reading your comments.