NFFC president Jim Goodman appeared in The Progressive recently, advocating for a global food economy that protects local food producers and consumers. The current U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement enriches multinational corporations at the expense of farmers and fisher folk.
It is no secret that those agreements, negotiated between governments, are heavily influenced by corporate lobbyists to ensure that the regulation of pretty much everything—such as labor, food safety, the environment—will favor corporate profit above all else. And that, in sum, is the problem with free trade: a greater concern for making money than for the wellbeing of people, on both sides of the deal.