Sacré Booze!
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If it's so damned good, then why does it need a subsidy?
Be sure to ship all that wine over here in those new Airbus 380's that the Eurocrats are also subsidizing.
Notice also that there is no mention of the "Don't Buy French" movement in the U.S. Maybe it had an impact, maybe not. I'm not a wine drinker and don't follow such things.
And, yes, let the record also reflect that the U.S. isn't much better with our own atrocious farm subsidies.
While the whole world gets fat -- and drunk -- we still cling to the notion that, somehow, "food is different" when it comes to basic economics.
Sacré bleu!
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The French government is to hand its struggling wine industry 70m euros ($91m) in aid to help it battle falling sales and damaging overproduction. The financial package is aimed at assisting vintners in financial trouble and improving how its wine is marketed.
The French wine industry, the world's second largest, has been hit by declining consumption at home and the growing popularity of New World wines.
Wine makers, however, claimed the support did not go far enough.
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France fell behind the "New World" producers of Australia, Chile and the United States for the first time in 2003 in terms of exports.
Be sure to ship all that wine over here in those new Airbus 380's that the Eurocrats are also subsidizing.
Notice also that there is no mention of the "Don't Buy French" movement in the U.S. Maybe it had an impact, maybe not. I'm not a wine drinker and don't follow such things.
And, yes, let the record also reflect that the U.S. isn't much better with our own atrocious farm subsidies.
While the whole world gets fat -- and drunk -- we still cling to the notion that, somehow, "food is different" when it comes to basic economics.
Sacré bleu!
Related Posts:
Franken-Wine's Monster
GM Foods: Hunting the Farmers
You Say "Tomato," I Say "Unconstitutional"
"It Is Large. Very Large, In Fact."
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1 February 2005
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