Big Three Trading Houses Regularly Beat Romanian Growers With A Stick

Three of the world's largest trading houses regularly beat Romanian farmers with a big stick it has been alleged.

"The producers are ‘harassed’ into selling the crop at low prices when harvesting it because they have no choice, they have no place to store it and the fact that sales in Romania are made as circumstances dictate gives traders an edge. We made them big with our weakness."

This is in a country where it's 'normal' to take your dancing bear into town with you when you go shopping mind, and half of the tillable area is still ploughed by horse-drawn equipment. These boys are ripe for a spanking.

So that's what happened to Joe Falloon

They could always come over here and rewire my house if they're not happy.

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