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Monday, January 05, 2004


Lessig's blog pointed to (but didn't have a link for) his January 2004 Wired article

A Taste of Our Own Poison - A modest proposal: Hold Hollywood hostage till we kill farm subsidies

The dirty little secret, however, is that we don't respect the free trade rules that we impose on others. While the US sings the virtues of free trade to defend maximalist intellectual property regulation, we poison the free trade that developing nations care about most - agriculture - by subsidizing farming in the industrialized world to the tune of $300 billion annually. Rhetoric about family farmers aside, most of that money passes quickly to agribusiness. This is not Adam Smith; it is corporate welfare par excellence.

I have a couple more links on subsidies on my page o' envirodoom.