Rhetoric and demagogy. I owe my readers a few explanations. On 18 June 2002 I wrote about the FAO Summit in a way that stands out with regard to most other commentators, and I have argued on several occasions that fully opening the EU's borders to farm products from other continents would not help solve the problems of starvation in the world in the slightest, but would only make the situation worse. These ideas require some explanation and I will attempt to justify them in the simplest...