DB: NAFTA allowed the dumping of corn, meat and other agricultural products in Mexico at low prices by huge corporations whose costs in the US are subsidized by the US farm bill. They did this in order to take over the market, and today one company, for instance, Smithfield Foods, sells 25 percent of all the pork in Mexico. That made it very difficult for Mexican farmers to grow crops or raise animals and sell them at a price that would pay the cost of producing them. When they couldn’t survive as farmers, they had to leave home looking for work. truth-out.org/opinion/item/18937-neo-liberalism-plays-key-role-in-economically-forced-mexican-migration-to-us
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 01:29:34 +0000
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