rcaetano7@yahoo.com (Rafael Caetano) wrote in message news:<94a6da7.0311080846.2033f63e@posting.google.com>...
> "Marc" <box526TR@spamtrap.net> wrote in message news:<ur_qb.102972$275.291504@attbi_s53>...
> > I keep remembering the stories about how foreign rice and 
> > other foods should be kept out of Japan because they have 
> > "high residues of pesticides". Then I read a report in the 
> > Economist that noted that Japan uses among the highest
> > amounts of pesticides per m2 of farmland of any country in 
> > the world. 
> > Well, perhaps it is democracy in action. Foreigners don't vote.
> 
> But what about the Japanese voters and taxpayers, who end up paying
> more for their rice?
>  
> The only ones who are better off are the rice producers.

I agree, but like I said, maybe this is democracy in action.
Apparently the Japanese voters themselves support restrictions on
foreign rice and other food imports, even if they have to pay higher
food prices.