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In the museum shop I came across a campaign for fair trade. Due to almost one billion dollar in subsidies a year, the European Union still produces excessive amounts of sugar, more than we could ever consume. (this can be said of almost any agricultural product in fact). The surpluses, heavily subsidised and extremely cheap, go to developing countries. These products are literally being dumped on the Thirld World, with disastrous effects. Sugar farmers over there cannot sell their sugar anymore, because their is no serious possibility of fair competition on the world markets. Many of them decline further and further into poverty. The EU-agricultural politics are a crying shame and a grave injustice. Help stop the dumping. Sign the online petition for a world without poverty, where trade is free and fair.