Steam rises from a copper vat as a woman uses a wooden ladle to prepare a traditional fondue savoyarde near the Eiffel Tower during an educational presentation, November 25, by French farmers ahead of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting next week in Seattle. Farmers from France, one of the 134 member countries of the WTO, will be present in Seattle to defend rural agricultural interests which they consider threatened by global agricultural business interests.

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