a comparative advantage in any thing agriculture is a big one and as long as you have these incredibly unequal subsidies when it comes to agriculture it's not. for the first thing is the e.u. budget is really really small it's not the budgets of all the e.u. countries the second thing the other thing with rice this is against any subsidies right anywhere in the world especially in europe but the stuff we're subsidizing is basically maize to make ethanol to put in it put in our cars i think that's awful too but it's not not harming africa we're not subsidizing cotton growing which is harming egypt we're not always the sudan we're not subsidizing cocoa beans which might be. we're not even subsidizing the production of flowers kenya. prior to this. probably grown in kenya and then supported here with zero tariff so so c'mon we not knights in shining armor we're not the devils we're sometimes