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Aug 07, 2011 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
How many people are aware that almost all US farming, including that of cotton, sugar and bananas are subsidised by the state?
That is why, about twenty years ago, a company called Fyffes Chicita went around the Carribean and Central America trying to set up contracts to buy several country’s crops at a very low price which they would have then sold at the world market prices which were about three times what they were offering, having been set by the US.
Almost all US crops, including sugar, cotton, fruit and meat and petrol/diesel are heavily subsided by the US government. This was why UK and Europe created ‘Fair Trade’ to try to give growers a reasonable price for their crops.
Here in the UK chicken is about £7.00 per kilo (about $1,047GUY per pound) beef is about twice this. Petrol is now £1.95 per LITRE ($641GUY).
I know that newspapers tell people from other countries that British people get paid over £250 ($82,300GUY) per week but this is very few.
For example, my rent is equal to $26,860GUY per week then we have to pay for water, gas, electricity, sewage, street cleaning, police and insurance before we start buying food.
In the UK most people just manage, like they do in Guyana while in the USA and Canada things are very different.
Don Johnson
Wallasey, UK

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