mrbungalow

Mike, if what you are saying about the government, this agriculture-legislation in Iraq, and the companies using nazi-methods to push GMO on other countries & continents holds water, someone should sound the alarm.

In my country, agriculture is disapperaing. Heard on the news today that there are less than 50.000 farmers left. Remember, farms in Norway are nothing like the ones they have in the US and Canada. Here they are small and more traditional. In food-production, fish-farming is dominant here.

According to the facts of international trade, all countries can benfit from trade, as long as they produce what they are good at. Still, the thing with food is that it''s too important to mess with. It's one of the primary needs. Every country should have their own varied food-production. You should atleast be able to choose.

BTW, who do you guys think is northern europes largest banana-producer? Iceland, actually!

I've lived in the United States for 6 years, and have noticed some differences in several types of food. I think the chicken in america doesn't taste anything really, and is probably 3 times as big as the ones in Norway. But the steaks in america tastes better and are superior to the ones they sell in Norway - atleast in terms of taste. America are said to only have had a very few cases of mad-cow disease, while England and France have had way too many. So you must be doing something right "over there"!

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