How far are the French farmers prepared to go? | DW News 

It seems like WEF has not thought about this...

When a man with everything to lose lose everything, he becomes a man with nothing to lose. That simple. Beware a man with everything to gain!)

Well, you answer that.

A man with nothing to lose. Now all he wants is to make you pay. 😅

They're farmers lol. They have tons to lose.

Would you say that about ISIS "protests"? I'm sure they have their justifications as well.

Corporations will own it all. Including humans. Back to feudalism. Merciless greed and corruption by our global corporate over lords. All of Earth will become a prison once Elon can make his get away to Mars. Surprise! he doesn't care about you either.

They are subsidised into staying in business.

Like every industry, the farmers must adapt or go under. The EU have specific quotas for each country, Unfortunately for French farmers, it is the Spanish farmers that feeds the whole of Europe with vegetables. If the French farmers cannot adapt or diversify they go under like every other industry. Someone will buy the land and make it profitable. The French farmers are taking the easy road, complain instead of doing. Sell up and go do something else.

​@@bricktop7803Well when all the farmers throwing the towel, you have to grow your food yourself and go hunting yourself. Are you ready for this?

So you want communism?

@@ll-eb2rt How U guess so ??

@@hinddanoda5962 these farmers are millionaires protesting for continuous government handouts

@@ll-eb2rt Ground realities just differ from your expectations.

Right? What a scummy reporter, first downplay their demands and say they just want higher income, then link them to some mystical far-right.

What do you mean "even farmers"? Plenty of farmers are far right. That's what happens when you live among animals and don't read much. If nothing else, the South and middle America should have proven this long ago.

@@aes0p895 You mean, that's what happens when you live in the real world and close to nature, instead of being incessantly pumped full of cultural decadence and social delusion.

@@aes0p895 at least farmers know what a woman is, unlike city people

​@@sinnerseekingsalvation779 well if that's what we're calling it, then being far right is a long tradition of people who are "close to nature". 😏

Not really. I live in Antwerp and there are short-chain-supply stores here and they are often cheaper as well. The farmers are right to be pissed at politicians tho

Short rope tie me think

You're too narrow focused, this is bigger than 1 politician or 1 party...

Indeed, Macron needs to go. He is demolishing France. His record is catastrophic, chilling.

​@@nurulhudavijapurwala4936they were right you can see that their is no lathi charge etc on farmers 100 times better than bjp

​@sagartomar3461 so those farmers can use swords ?

@@nurulhudavijapurwala4936 You are wrong, the global elite is the enemy. They plan to make food so expensive that they can control us.

its not new, its been like this since the Romans

@@simriths.s5976 no one used sword unbhakt stop watching godi media

They can but they don't want to.

no, Davos

yes, the ones led by the Austrian.

you should probably watch videos about the german protests, then. duncecap

You nailed it. The farmers cannot compete on the global agriculture market. They need the government handouts to survive. It never works out well and is not unsustainable in the long term.

@@morriselee mechanized , industrialized agriculture country shouldnt fail to compete with manual agriculture . Problems is the rules and regulations in competitions with no rules and no regulations.that is like a completely natural athelete competing against a heavily doping athlete , back in the days, German doped female athletes broke all the male olympic records.

@@morriselee Well here is the crux, its not the global ag market but the stores that they cant compete with. Imagine this> I grow sheep. I can not sell to you because eu reg. It would have to go to a regulated butcher. a sheep is worth some 200 e for the farmer, approx 20 kg of meat. if i send it to the butcher and they send it back its aprox 100 e for butchering and packaging. So now i can sell it to you, for 300 e. great you get sheep meat for 15 e per kg. great, if you go to the store, guess what it costs. 30e kg. The thing is, if i as a farmer grew just a 100 lambs a year, it would be quite difficult to find a 100 ppl to buy those sheep. If I sell to the markets I get 3/6 e a kg. So for me to do it in scale is not feasible. Its true that food imo should not be subsidised, but the sad truth is that whiteout it, the food price would soar. As I do it for fun and for my own meat, I dont care. Sure its nice to get eu money for doing nature conservation on the side, but for it to be feasible in scale... It becomes problematic. Personaly I think they should be protesting the monopolys of food networks, but since they own the only realistic infrastructure for the farmers to sell the product they got them by the balls. Id recomend to get in contact with local farmers and deal directly with them, and to do it for the long run. then it will change on your personal part. But the regulation of banning farm butcherd meat is ridiculos, half of europe dont care and the other half dosent have the prion diseases so its... imagine if I could butcher the animal myself, get an extra 50 e and youd get it for 50 less. that would be something.

@@inotaarto8719 Thanks for the very insightful comment! I learned a lot.

We serve only to be counted by the bureaucrats, they know everything about us.

No this is global history economy rises and collapses but this one is 100 times bigger globalization collapse and us dollar ponzi system has no saviour like 2008 china did but they want to use India but we won't work like chinese slaves

Not the pandemic, but of the governments covid mandates is what destroyed the economy.

we don’t have Russian cheap oil and gas so…

We already paying for subsides. So we pay double.

Farming is the most heavily subsides profession. Even if they cut subsides in half it would still be so. We regulate plenty of sectors without subsidising it. Imagine if the bank sector said the same and wanted subsides for their wast number of regulations 😂

Regulations don't make things more expensive, they make things less expensive. You just need to look at the whole picture.

Subsidies are not being cut in France.

@@pomperidus i am big fan of subsidies of French government as i am not french and will benefit from cheaper food prices in eu market without paying for them. Not eu sumbsidies tho.

Oh yes they are eating popcorn and having a good time watching incapable European politicians destroying Europe.

No. They are protesting because foreign farming imports are undercutting them. USA used to make a lot steel. Now it doesn't. There are many areas of production in many countries across the world that were replaced with imports. Farming is no different.

Without all the government/ EU BS? Can the farmers also do it without my tax money paid in subsidies then?

@@katarn999 seriously, they don't seem to understand that farmers are essentially govt employees. Personally I don't have a problem with subsidies, bc we need farms, but the image of the defiant anti govt farmer needs to be exposed as theb silly nonsense it is.

@@aes0p895 Fully agree!

Well, we saw the dangers of being dependent on Russia for oil and natural gas. And I guess we also realise the danger of being dependent on OPEC for oil. The question is, do we want to be able to feed our people from local resources, or do we want to be independent? Should food independence be part of the national defense? Maybe the EU subsidies should not be counted as agricultural subsidies but as part of the military budget?

@@JanBruunAndersen Very good point. Food security for core products has value.

I know a bit of French History and it was not the case in 1968, it was not in 1871, it was not in 1848, it was not in 1830, it was not in 1793, and it was not in 1789. Prior to 1750 more than 75% of the population was rural, made mostly of peasants and some small artisans, of course they did the rebelling, now farmers are 1,5% of the population. Industrialisation first saw factory workers become the new 'dangerous class', and now most poor workers are service employees.

@@pomperidus then you don't know the history well enough, because each of those the farmers started getting rowdy first.

Zero output? Pretty much every tool farmers use was created, developed and produced in cities. But sure, let them build their own machines, pesticides, etc.

You don't have the slightest idea how a modern society works, do you...? 😆

p.s. People think.... what could you live without, when live get's hard.. a war.. or something bad... your electronics , you car, even your heat... or no more food.. look at the EU do they want to take out all farmers.. for climate reasons.... or do they (like WEF members) want to control what you can get to eat... if farmers are gone, and there are some (WEF memebers) that control all and everything like their modified seeds, that can't give fruit or seeds to multiply... They all support those big insect farms... look to what those "members" are investing in.. what are they planning... follow their money.

​@@Rene046 Make a self-check on conspiracy theories. I think you are infected by those... 😆

It depends; quite a statist country even by European standards, but it has been governed for long by the right. Regarding farming subsidies, the reason France is the first beneficiary is not due to any taste for subsidies, but simply because a lot of PAC funds are granted per hectare, and France has the largest agricultural landmass in the EU. (France is still a net contributor to the EU budget, though, and by far). The current far-right has shifted to a more 'social' stance and promises to maintain most of the redistribution of wealth and public services, that are now also seen as a part of the French identity and symbols of an idealized past. This is a recent shift, the FN used to be all about less taxes and les government spending. So yes even the far right does adopt some historically leftist economical stances, leading to a lot of discussions about the horseshoe theory (far right and far left complaining together about Macron or the EU being 'neo-liberal', declinist oulook on the state of public services).

The Germans could... more than once actually...

@@katarn999 yes, they do that sometimes....

Utter rubbish. UK's crisis is homemade, and a big part of that is indeed brexit. Ignore it at your own peril...

Maybe the presenter is American (by birth), since they pronounce it that way.

They don't, ua can't sell most of their food produce here.

@@insolencePL seems their grains all through out you food now though?

@@ChrisMurray-iw9ij I am not sure i understood. But, yeah its not legal, whole controversy half a year ago was about the fact that substential amount of grain 'slipt through' it was sused mostly as animal feed.

According to the plan yes. The catch is many EU countries go actually further than the EU minimal recommandations, so the local government and EU can always blame each other (French gov: yes I write harsh rules but at least I do not want to import too much brasillian beef or soy, EU and concerned countries: we do not impose more to you than to south-american imports, please accept Mercosur).

If your sensibility is pro free market you will blame selfish French protectionnists and if you hate the EU you will find a perfect opportunity to blame its bureaucracy, wonderful to polarize the issue. I wish fun to everyone debatting this issue.

France is a socialist country? 🤔

Actually where I come from, there's a whole party for farmers. How do you think the farmers got all those subsidies in the first place? 🤣

You would be hungry without your farmers...respect for hardworking people