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> "I know it may seem ironic but fish and native staple foods do cost more than turkey tails," she says. > James Sumner, president of the U.S. Poultry and Egg
by zyxley 11y ago
> "I know it may seem ironic but fish and native staple foods do cost more than turkey tails," she says.
> James Sumner, president of the U.S. Poultry and Egg Exporting Council, says his organization didn't realize they were exporting turkey tails to Samoa until he learned about the ban.
> And since the late 1990s, the poor island nation of just under 200,000 people had been trying to join the WTO, hoping to improve its economy with a gross domestic product of less than $2 billion.
It seems like something that's less "abuse" (at least in the sense that anyone's consciously doing it), and more a result of dirt-cheap imported food in a nation where most people don't have much money.