"We Made a Devil's Bargain": Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that ... - 1 views
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Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year or so when we started rethinking it, that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era. It has not worked. It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake.
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you just can’t take the food chain out of production. And it also undermines a lot of the culture, the fabric of life, the sense of self-determination
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We should have continued to work to help them be self-sufficient in agriculture.