I think I do understand you and the situation you are at, that is part of my job and there is nothing more that I would wish than to support local growers over external ones (from other countries) but that does not fit into the global economy and the trading of commodities. One thing is what I wish and another what reality is.
An example: grain producers receive some subsides but it is just economically un-sustainable and some big companies (beer) are importing their grains because they get them cheaper and some farmers are changing their crops to others crops like Oats for their cattle and other animals and in doing that their return is higher and some are going with conservation of soil practices as well to lower the diesel cost with less tractor work.
Going organic is also paying off, so going green might not be a bad idea to explore. One of the greenhouse that I have talked bout is growing the tomatoes organic and they reduced about 30 % their cost of production and kept very much the same productivity.
I hope you can find some options to improve your production/comercial system.
No doubt, corruption is the biggest problem of many countries (if not all) and their being in economic problems show how their gov have not being able to place their country first but History has cycles and if one country goes down there will be consequences for many other countries.
Should you be more respectful to the Greeks? Since the Queen's husband is Greek, so your possible next King will have half Greek genes, unless I am mistaken.
I have not checked what are the elements that the miners want to get but usually we the public will not know for sure what they are after in those mines.
Either processing the ore in situ or transporting it to other place the hazard residues will not disappear How will those contaminants be treated and how will they be discharged?
I forgot to add that there are successful farmers (about 20 %) and animal keepers as well but they are informed people and they do take the technology to their advantage.
Recently, I had to evaluate some greenhouses and one of the owners was a young guy (30s) and I was happy to see that guy with plenty of knowledge and control of his greenhouse, those greenhouses are certified in food safety (inocuidad alimentaria) and he does export his produce to a few countries but he does the planting until he has a contract for his crops to sell.
Mexico has Free trade agreements with 45 countries and if we want to sell our produce/goodies we must buy from them too, otherwise what for are those Free trade agreements and in the making there will be unfair situations that will make some people struggle and some even will go out of business, usually the less prepared (in both countries) but such is life.
If you are a successful farmer/animal keeper, no doubt you do know your business.
Trading is rather complex and many variables have to be taken into account in order to make an accurate guess of it which goes along with knowing what to produce (by farmers or animal keepers).
The majority of Farmers (here) are usually not educated and certainly not well informed, they do produce what they have known to since many years ago while the markets are very dynamic and going ahead of them is not easy.
Farming is a beautiful activity but one with a "high risk and low return", who in his/her right mind would want such a scenario?
With the globalization of the economy, nothing is fair (nothing has been though) and all countries go to compite for the markets, markets that can afford to buy the goodies being wheat or meat or whatever...
Blaming the governments for the low return in agriculture/animal keeping is rather no-sense, the gov has to care for the majority of people (if they do) making food available to the masses within reasonable prices, so farmers/animal keepers better get informed and make better decisions and the internet can be a very useful tool to do a good reattach on the markets and above all have a sale-contract before producing anything.
If producing wheat is giving me a low return, then I should not produce wheat because the people will get that wheat from Canada/USA because it is cheaper even with the transport cost. Where is the Sustainability in the above? that is another story...
As for the Mexican workers in USA (undocumented) that is another story as well...
Natural orange juice can be made into Jello just like many other fruit's juices.
Just the orange juice has to be warmed (almost to boiling point) to inactivate the natural enzymes and then add the gelatin (disolved or following the instructions of the brand chosen) the longer the juice is warmed the longer it keeps but the less the flavor.
This is (my) pineapple jello (natural of course and some honey added)
Food price controls did work in the past but now with a global economy that is not possible, not even your God Trump can do it.
Commodities/food prices are determined by the supply and the demand. If there is an overproduction of wheat (just a simplistic example) its price will go down but if there is shortage of that food/commodity its price will go up.
The best effort for a country beyond nationalism/patriotism is to develop local economies the most possible.
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