{"id":163,"date":"2008-07-30T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T12:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2008-07-30T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T12:32:39","slug":"doha-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Doha Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-106\" style=\"border: 0pt none; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Jalape\u00f1o\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/chile_jalapeno_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"50\" \/>World trade talks <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121734618198593583.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news\">collapsed<\/a> this week in Doha over food subsidies.\u00a0 I had previously discussed the potential impact on Switzerland.\u00a0 However, the collapse of these talks, the inability to reduce barriers, particularly subsidies in the U.S., has harmed countries where agriculture is still the dominant export, or would be if such tarrifs didn&#8217;t exist.\u00a0 The question remains: what protections are appropriate, even absent tarrifs?\u00a0 What sort of quality standards must be observed?\u00a0 If they are observed, then does the cost of living and production overcome the cost of transportation?\u00a0 And is the impact of transport on health and environment understood and accounted for?\u00a0 Many millions of lives and lifestyles depend on the answers.\u00a0 Food has to be affordable to all and safe to produce and eat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World trade talks collapsed this week in Doha over food subsidies.\u00a0 I had previously discussed the potential impact on Switzerland.\u00a0 However, the collapse of these talks, the inability to reduce barriers, particularly subsidies in the U.S., has harmed countries where agriculture is still the dominant export, or would be if such tarrifs didn&#8217;t exist.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=163\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Doha Dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,30,4],"tags":[104,106,107,105,86],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-humanity","category-politics","tag-doha","tag-hunger","tag-safety","tag-tarriffs","tag-wto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}