MS. DELMORAL: Can I ask a question first? Mr. State, who are you? Who do you represent?

MR. ACETO: State Department. I'm sorry. We were introduced earlier today.

MS. DELMORAL: Okay. Vermont is not -- but that's not the State Department, that's something else.

MR. ACETO: That's the State Department in Washington.

MS. DELMORAL: Okay. Great. With all due respect, I would like to speak to the audience. I think that --

MR. ALLBEE: Would you identify yourself?

MS. DELMORAL: Andrea DelMoral. (inaudible). The agricultural policy the WTO practices is destructive to the class of citizens of the world. (inaudible) in the community, in a country's GNP, gross national product, or a company's annual report, but it has value. It cannot be measured in today's economic terms. (inaudible) Trade organizations don't consider the aspects of the economy that affect us as human beings. The only elements of life that matter there is a corporate buck.

On July 5 David (inaudible) director in charge of members of the WTO and formerly the GATT have made a major contribution to the eradication of the earth.

MR. ALLBEE: Could you just turn sideways so both people can see you? You can address both at the same time.

THE WITNESS: I'll start over with this quote. It's a good one.

MR. ALLBEE: Would you just turn toward --

MS. DELMORAL: Members of the WTO and formerly the GATT have made a major contribution to the eradication of poverty through their ever moving barriers to trade. If poverty is measured in terms of the GNP, then I suppose David Hartman is right. It's too bad that GNP is generated by the IMF and world bank offering them money on the chance (inaudible) and dump chemicals on their fields. These practices have (inaudible) millions of people all over the world including here in our own country of self sustenance.

We are dependent now on food distributors to bring us our more basic necessities. Contractors who in the glorious name of free trade manipulate countries (inaudible) all this supposed wealth coming into a country goes to paying off interest and buying expensive imported food, both expenses that were non-existent before. Free trade (inaudible) and puts it in the hands of transnational corporations. The WTO is an organization made up of these influences. Dan Glickman, the head of this fine regulatory body, the USDA, told the press on July 13 in his so coherent speech, (inaudible) has enormous potential to help combat hunger. Biotechnology will not feed the world. Even biotech companies including Monsanto are not foolish enough to claim this any more. They have already removed it from their web site.

The technology is used in a system that has more products growing for countries where labor is cheap, unorganized, expendable, exploitable and plentiful and then where environmental laws are also (inaudible) sold to north America and Europe at a high price. No matter the monetary cost benefits, the social expense is devastating. History shows us that as control over local interest moves outside a community, that community begins to deteriorate. Instead of having food --

MR. ALLBEE: Will you conclude?

MS. DELMORAL: I'll skip that because you guys know that the solution is to move towards locally running things and distributing. If we are going to (inaudible) the WTO in any form is contradiction to the most of humanity. No amount of lobbying and testifying or letter writing is going to result in a good WTO or (inaudible) in any form. The corporations rule, governments police, and people are imprisoned by the structures. We can't let the trade organizations or any type of hierarchy fix our problems. We have got to start looking to each other.

(Applause).