Comments on: Samak’s Garlic Overture – Or The Politics Of Thai Garlic

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:55:54 +0000

Most of the population are clearly bored with the PAD protests.

And what shall a new government solve? The crisis is mainly an external crisis, just to mention the oil price and other inflationary factors.

PAD’s got the completely wrong timing this time. Now they try to save their own face with a grande finale protest … What good comes from that.

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By: Nong

Nong — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:07:34 +0000

Or read this from the FTA Watch Group – Thailand:

http://www.ftawatch.org/autopage1/show_page.php?t=22&s_id=3&d_id=3

Understand the impact of the hastily initiated FTAs under Thaksin? Also read here about former Bangkok senator Kaewsan Atibhoti who’s quoted with: “For instance, the FTA with China has put many Thai growers of garlic and other vegetables out of business due to the dumping of cheaper Chinese imports …”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaewsan_Atibhodi

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By: BangkokDan

BangkokDan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:30:59 +0000

A quick Google search for india + onion + crisis coughs up all the results one may wish for.

BangkokDan

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By: Indian?

Indian? — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:23:11 +0000

Never heard of such a thing in India, though heard of animal feed.

But never in the history of India the PM dared to ask the herd of cows in the country to jointly make “nam prik” to help the people of the animal feed industry.

Here we have a national leader who showed us in “Talk my Way” on how to make nam prik. He even troubled himself and the producer to gather all the ingredients.

Hail Nam Prik (Garlic)

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