Quote of the day

Norman Macrae:

We set up a free-trade area in Western Europe and then created a Brussels Commission to turn it back into corrupt protectionism. Brussel's Common Agricultural Policy consists of paying five times the world price to farmer in rich countries and blocking cheaper food imports from more efficient poor countries. We thereby impede the development of farming in poor areas where the main threat to health is undernourishment, while piling up huge food mountains in areas where the main threat to health is obesity.

This, along with a number of other quotes of the day from the past two weeks, can be found in David Boaz's excellent The Libertarian Reader.