I have been reading about the WTO conference recently and not knowing much about what has been going on, I decided to do some research. I've been on all the relevant government department websites, political parties, think tanks etc. I didn't quite believe all I was being told so I decided to look here. I feel ashamed that I haven't done anything before. The fact that all these farmers are being so ruthlessly exploited and these "3rd world" citizens are being kept in abject poverty is being kept from the rest of the world. This is ridiculous in our consumer age, and, quite frankly, disgusting. Who can blame people fleeing their country to come here or other "developed" countries if we force them to live in conditions like that, never mind the civil wars or western inflicted 'freedom'. Because our governments, with their subsidised, protectionist policies FORCE these adults and children to live in conditions that we, in Britain, would lock people up for if they kept children or animals in (if there was an end to agricultural subsidies £300 billion would be added to the global incomes by 2015 and 144 - that's 144 million Third World farmers would be lifted out of poverty) . I know that I can no longer feel complacent that having a Labour, "for the people" government, that doesn't move a finger without the biggest isolationist nation in the history of this worlds say so, will have a hard time believing that this can change with current self preservation, vote winning policy. Issues like this need people like us to make a fuss,more exposure of the facts, do something, not leave it up to others or assume someone else will do it. The WTO conference at Cancun isn't another Seattle. Do you know why? Because all the peasant leaders (from Bolivia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Cuba, Thailand, India and Haiti) were refused a visa. Here's to our world wide democracy, thanks Tony.