For instance, the growth in the world's population is going to be dramatic, and it's occurring almost exclusively in Asia. Asia is not going to be able to produce all of the food it will need. We are investing in the southern cone of South America because we know that trade policies will allow food supplies to come out of that part of the world. It's going to be five to 10 years down the road, but we need to be getting those investments in place today. So free trade policies allow Cargill to invest for the future.
Trade barriers send the wrong signals and inhibit growth.
They stop people from doing what they know they should be doing. What's going on in China is very interesting. Incomes are slowly increasing. People are doing what makes economic sense rather than the government telling farmers they have to produce a certain kind of grain and ship it to a central point. Farmers understand what to do.