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Colombia. But he says that it should be viewed as a sacrifice, since other sector vulnerable to imports of cheap powdered
industries such as tobacco and coffee stand to gain. "The dairy industry milk. Finally, in 2011, Decree 1880 was passed,
itself is exposed, we cannot lie to the country, but we can't stop signing which recognizes leche popular as both legal
trade agreements with other coutnries just because one sector is severely and essential. The battles are not over, but the
affected," he said. dairy sector is now at the heart of the popular
Many wealthy families are getting into the dairy busienss. For ex- resistance to these deals.
ample, the Ancali dairy farm is owned by Carlos Heller, heir to the Falabella Dairy is the cornerstone in the construc-
family fortune, one of Chile's wealthiest dynasties, with major holdings tion of food sovereignty—whether in the U.S.,
in retail, real estate and transportation. The farm has sixty-five hundred Pakistan, Colombia or Thailand. It touches so
cows and produces almost eight million liters of milk per month. Large many people. About 14 percent of the world's
corporations like Nestlé are purchasing dairy farms in many develop- population depend directly on dairy production
ing countries, consolidating and creating impossible competition for the for their livelihoods. The strong alliance between
people's milk. Workers on these farms do not receive the kind of income vendors, consumers and farmers of Colombia
that goes to producers of people's milk. is an inspiration. Similar alliances now need to
Fortunately, the influx of industrial milk has met popular resistance. be forged everywhere. Milk must remain in the
In Colombia in 2006, a government decree prohibiting the consumption, hands of the people.
sale and transport of unpasteurized milk triggered huge protests across the
country, forcing the government to postpone adoption of the regulation. For the full report, see http://www.grain.org/
Popular opposition did not die down and two years later, with over fifteen article/entries/4259-the-great-milk-robbery-
thousand people marching in the streets of Bogota, the government was how-corporations-are-stealing-livelihoods-and-
yet again forced to push things back another two years. The people also a-vital-source-of-nutrition-from-the-poor.
mobilized to protest trade agreements that would have left the people's milk

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