http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=11140

Corporate globalisation: Standing at the end of the road

Corporate globalization, savagely embodied by NAFTA, is not just a threat to Mexican farmers and rural villagers. The economic, health, and social damage created by industrial agriculture, corporate globalization, and the patenting and gene-splicing of transgenic plants and animals, are inexorably leading to universal "bioserfdom " for farmers, deteriorating health for consumers, a destabilized climate (energy intensive industrial agriculture and long-distance food transportation and processing account, directly or indirectly, for 40% of all climate-disrupting greenhouse gases), tropical deforestation, and a rapid depletion of oil supplies.

Mexican farmers take part in Mexico City in a march of hundreds of corn producers protesting against the NAFTA on 31 January 2008 (AFP/Luis Acosta)