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Ethan Zuckerman’s Weblog : Antiquated, illiterate, destructive and indefensible<\/a><\/p>\n

Ethan, vey eloquently, puts into words something that has been on my mind for years now. The dire effect of western agricultural subsidies, on the fate of the developing world. I won’t bore you with my rendering of the issue, just read Ethan’s instead<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Suffice it to say that this is bad in so many ways, it makes me sad<\/p>\n

It gets truly surreal once you look at the cows. European Union dairy subsidies average out to $913 per cow per year. That’s almost twice the income of the average person in sub-Saharan Africa: $490 per year. Now, the EU doesn’t just help cows – they also give to international development. In fact, they give $8 per African person per year, slightly less than 1% of what they spend on their livestock.<\/bq><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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