Trade ideology is dominating everything. Bove is rarely alone these days. Even at 35,000 feet, Bove's words are news. One magazine reporter noted that during the flight from Washington, D.C., to Seattle last week, he could not even ask Bove a question without a television crew's camera capturing Bove's every word. After a speech at Benaroya Hall yesterday, four photographers and two cameramen leaped to the stage to capture Bove's picture and the crowd giving him a standing ovation.
Celebrity carries a price.
His wife chose not to come to Seattle. The cameras, he said, are always fixed on him, and that makes enjoying a new city difficult. His schedule is full anyway. Bove and other members of the French farmers union, Confederation Paysanne, visited organic vegetable farms on Vashon Island on Friday. They also are participating in a farmers' strategy meeting.