On 7/11/2014 1:51 PM, sf wrote:

>>
> 30 minutes into the documentary: Thanks to farm subsidies, our sugar
> producers are guaranteed 22¢ lb while the world price of sugar is 7¢
> lb and there is no competition. The price of sugar in Canada and
> Mexico is one third the price of sugar in the USA and when we have a
> sugar surplus, the government buys it at the high price. So in
> effect, our government is making the rich richer.

Many cany companies moved production to 'Canda or Mexico for that
reason. Subsidize the farmer and put the candy factory worker out of a
job.


>
> Go to 33:30 and you'll see where the Fanjuls found their workers and
> how their workers were treated. It's shameful. As a result of being
> closely scrutinized, they mechanized sugarcane harvesting and
> eliminated most of the work force. Where do people who were poor and
> uneducated in their original country find work after being a sugar
> cane harvester? They don't.
>

They send their kids across the border now.