You're dead right, Farm Bill Girl. Small farmers in these countries have had it tough, and have absolutely been driven into the ground. It's no accident that Haiti has been forced to become a food importing country.

Eric Holt Gimenez over at Food First has taken these ideas and put them into a broader context. Check out his website early tomorrow for more on this. And yours is a point I've made in an article that'll appear in the Observer this Sunday. It turns out that much of the world is now bound by similar kinds of trade agreements.

But you're right. With the world treating Haiti as its whipping boy for over centuries, it shouldn't come as any surprise that they've got it tough. The wonder of it is that there are still people fighting back. Check out the Haiti Action Network for more.