The CAP and American farm Subsidies are responsible for the collapse of the Doha round of the world trade talks. Basically the west was unwilling to give up subsidising farmers. The resultant dumping and consequent low-world prices for agricultural products are responsible for this:



Free trade works for everyone, but if poor countries are expected to open their developing industrial and service sectors, then they must be able to benefit from the West's agricultural markets in return. In short, they must be allowed to do what they do best and cheapest, just as we in the affluent West are. That way trade is fair and poor countries' citizens benefit from cheaper goods and access to markets for their primary goods, allowing organic investment in infrastructure, eventually consigning famine to history. Unfortunately in their charge that the west abuses free trade to the detriment of the world's poor, the green-haired rock-chuckers are bang-on.

The Europeans are insecure, socialist wankers who don't beleive in free trade and cannot be expected to grasp this. At least the EU position is consistent. The Americans do know better and therefore are killing Africans for mere domestic electoral gain - pork barrel politics paid for by millions of Africans' lives. Something which will go down in history as the worst piece of cynical hypocricy since the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact.