Re: Poor nations protest farm subsidies.
<I didn't realize the subsidies had the effect of allowing US companies to "dump" their products on foreign countries.
True, and I've known it for a long time. Mexican corn growers sometimes have trouble competing with imported American corn when they are selling it just to the Mexicans in the town down the road. Although some of this is indeed due to subsidies, a lot is also just productivity, or the fact that the American farmer can just produce one hell of a lot more for less money.