“France’s protesting farmers encircle Paris with tractor barricades, vowing a ‘siege’ over grievances”
January 29, 2024
“JOSSIGNY, France (AP) — Protesting farmers encircled Paris with traffic-snarling barricades Monday, using hundreds of lumbering tractors and mounds of hay bales to block highways leading to France’s capital to pressure the government over the future of their industry, which has been shaken by repercussions of the Ukraine war.…
A farmer from Tournai in western Belgium, Clemente Glorieux, said agricultural producers are “fed up. At some point, rules and constraints are imposed on us, whether administrative or financial. This has been harmful for a while now, so we’re starting to ask ourselves questions about our future.”…”
It’s amazing how no one cares about farmers yet when they go to the grocery store they complain about prices. They are linked. If the farmers go bankrupt the public is going to suffer. This is not rocket science.