Paris, April 27, 2010
Event organized by the FNSEA cereal for the Beauce and Brie came directly from their farms? ... No, production companies grain, for which they work.
A parade of tractors on the highway, weird! Usually, the tractors are still banned from circulation, even for other events in France, access is denied. Today, this is escorted by gendarmes and police, protected in some way. The "boys" of our beloved president who invested, would fear for their investments in these companies to grain production which ultimately represent only five percent of the French farmers but still get seventy percent of the premiums given by the European parliament to help the farmers, all farmers ... well sure, their cause is just because this premium since 1987 is constantly reduced, this will have to be shared with farmers and peasants mountain dairy farmers. Must be reminded that France is the second largest world exporter of grain.
But what about other dairy farmers, ranchers and gardeners. These are not always those who shout the loudest who are the most pitiable.
It is good to know that a liter of milk at forty-one percent of fat is paid to farmers 28 cents a liter (of this title is removed the cream used to make butter and other dairy products) the rest is packaged and sold under the name milk "whole, semi skimmed or lean." One million people in France are dairy producers, yet France can not produce its "rating" (in volume), authorized by the European community. Dairy farmers in Belgium and Germany face similar difficulties. Currently, a liter of milk if their was bought for forty cents, all the financial difficulties would be resolved.
Farmers breeders have more hope for the future. Since the beef (Argentine) and poultry can travel safely, French production is expensive. The addition of hormones in cattle feed was banned in Europe, but the Argentine meat imports to contain and are tolerated by the authorities. More grain prices rises, more farmers are struggling to finance their productions (for ten tons of meat produced in France five tons will feed the men and five tons are used to feed animals) while the premium finance cereal! A tragic desolation
enters rural Europe!
late March, in Poitiers, the manifestation of women living on their farm (dairy farmers or ranchers) bringing together the regions of Poitou, Brittany, Pays de Loire, begun with a minute of silence that morning, a farmer was hanging in his parlor. Dairy farmers have incomes so low that no longer able to support their families. In everyday life, it is often women who manage the accounts of exploitation. The rising price of cereals and processed products coupled with lower prices of raw materials for sale, causes lower farm income of dairy farmers. For 2009, it was counted about eight hundred suicides of farmers ... farmers who talk about?
Marie-Claude Thebaud
(Interview with a couple of French agro-pastoralists living in Britain)
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