Don’t tamper with food trade

SURELY world leaders will not be stupid enough to turn the global food trade on its head at a time when high prices are threatening hunger in the world’s poorest countries.

Irish farmers fear a World Trade Organisation deal would cost them at least €2 billion, with the loss of the suckler cow herd.

However, tampering with the food trade is a matter not of euros or dollars, but life or death, for millions around the world.