tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30408888.post7448751288358268158..comments2023-09-04T08:51:16.091-06:00Comments on Hermano Juancito: Coals to Newcastle: corn to HondurasJohn (Juancito) Donaghyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12711543214465586727noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30408888.post-10532974262337181462015-05-04T07:11:19.638-06:002015-05-04T07:11:19.638-06:00There is a good post on this in Honduras Culture a...There is a good post on this in Honduras Culture and Politics that answers some of my questions and raises more questions. <br />http://hondurasculturepolitics.blogspot.com/2015/05/trading-commodities-for-chicken-progress.html<br />John (Juancito) Donaghyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12711543214465586727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30408888.post-12757812227490135532015-04-30T08:03:51.492-06:002015-04-30T08:03:51.492-06:00A friend wrote on Facebook:
"Yellow corn, Jo...A friend wrote on Facebook: <br />"Yellow corn, John... talk to your friends back in Ames.. .it's cattle feed. These exports serve two purposes: first, giving subsidies to corporate farmers without calling them subsidies (they're "export credits" instead) AND off-shoring a labor intensive industry (and a particularly environmentally unfriendly one... i.e. feedlots) to Honduras. A "win-win" for everyone... except the 99% of us who aren't agro-multinationals. The only absolute losers are the Hondurans whose farmlands and livelihoods are being gobbled up for first world hamburgers."<br />I responded: <br /> I think you are probably right. Yellow corn and soybean meal are cattle feed. But who owns most of the cattle here in Honduras and may buy the feed? A few rich large land owners who use their land for cattle grazing - which not only takes away some of the best flat land but also is environmentally poor in its misuse of hills. Again, the poor suffer.John (Juancito) Donaghyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12711543214465586727noreply@blogger.com