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According to the New
York Times, Brazilian beef producers are angry that European leaders have
banned beef imports from Brazil.
One Brazilian cattleman was quoted as saying that Brazilians were being
penalized for being competitive. Analysts state that Europeans would most
likely experience beef shortages.
Beef shortage? That conjures images of gaunt queues full of
hungry French beef eaters.
I don’t think so.
One reason why Brazilian produce is cheaper than that of the
developed world is the amount and the cost of oversight directed toward their
food and those who handle it.
Another is the vast overburdening supply of low quality
products.
Thoughts these days that my nation’s markets belong to
foreign competitors have worn thin. My first job, my main job, is to produce
food for my hungry countrymen.
European markets do not belong to me. Brazilian markets do
not belong to me. If those nations need what I produce and are willing to come
here and buy it, let them. But don’t tell me that in America, I am equal to all
in Brazil who grow food, or for that matter that Brazilian produce should gain equality
in European markets.
After all, how many Europeans in the food business are
employed in Europe, by Brazilians?
Please, please, don’t tell me that foreign producers are
more equal than me on my own shore. It hasn’t worked that way for US exports to
foreign lands, and it never will…..not unless they really want to buy them.
Free trade by today’s definition is about holding a gun to
the head of consumers, saying “Buy it, or else!”
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