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"In any case, since India signed up with the global trade game in the 1990s, it has again taken to foreign food imports and credits.30 What makes the World Bank an expert on aid or trade, with a record like this? And what makes it an expert on the free market, when its stated goals are straight out of the Soviet Gosplan? "The Bank would prefer to ... base its financing on a national development program, provided that it is properly worked out in terms of projects by which the objectives of the program are to be attained," states the Bank's own annual report." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Before addressing these alternatives, we need to deal with one further issue: food imports. Pathogen Reduction: HACCP applies to domestic food production. The countries from which we import fruits, vegetables, and other foods do not necessarily follow such rules. Because food imports are influenced (if not governed) by international trade agreements, methods to ensure food safety must also take such agreements into consideration. IMPORTING SAFE FOOD: THE POLITICS OF FOOD TRADE We live in a global economy with a global food supply." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"Within a decade, the Cuban diet rebounded to its former level without food imports or the use of agrochemicals. The Cuban experience shows that agroecology can form a viable basis for agricultute without industrial methods or biotechnology. Unintentionally, the U.S. trade embargo turned Cuba into a nation-scale experiment in alternative agriculture. Some look to the Cuban example as a model for employing locally adapted ecological insight and knowledge instead of standardized mechanization and agtochemistry to feed the wotld." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The agency also must deal with food imports, which comprised 40% of the country's supply of fresh fruits and vegetables and 68% of the seafood in 2000. The FDA's budget allocation for inspection purposes was just $283 million in 2000, minuscule by any standard of federal expenditure. It is not surprising that the FDA conducted only 5,000 inspections annually, visited less than 2% of the places under its jurisdiction, and inspected less than 1% of imported foods prior to 2001 when threats of bioterrorism forced improvements." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.) "Because food imports are influenced (if not governed) by international trade agreements, methods to ensure food safety must also take such agreements into consideration. IMPORTING SAFE FOOD: THE POLITICS OF FOOD TRADE We live in a global economy with a global food supply. If we insist on having fresh strawberries and tomatoes in January (beyond those grown in our southern states), we have to buy them from countries with warmer climates." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

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