Spain, UK, Germany, Hungary also protesting
Maybe for small farmers but I'm skeptical that corporate or big farmers are not raking in profit.Europe has seen massive increases in food prices over the last two years and yet farmers are still struggling. What gives?
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What working with Biden for an extended period of time does to a mofo
Funny anecdote, my local chinese restaurant which specializes in Jiangnan cuisine went from 20€ for two of my favourite dishes in 2022 to 25€ in 2023 and now 30€...Europe has seen massive increases in food prices over the last two years and yet farmers are still struggling. What gives?
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They're not struggling. These people are not humble farm hands or subjugated peasants, they are wealthy rural landlords who want to maximize their share of national income. They claim to be an oppressed, salt-of-the-earth class as a matter of political aesthetics, like how Americans making 200k a year and living in mcmansions go on about how rugged and working class they are and how "coastal elites" could never understand the common folk like them.The farmers simply replace a Ford F150 with a million dollar tractor.Europe has seen massive increases in food prices over the last two years and yet farmers are still struggling. What gives?
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The cost of farm inputs has risen faster. Try making fertilizer and pesticides without natural gas. Try running farm machines without diesel. At the same time the EU basically dropped its trade barriers to imported Ukrainian produce. So whoever competes with Ukraine is pretty much screwed. This whole EU policy is pretty idiotic. One of the pillars of the EU was its farm policy. The EU is supposed to be self-reliant in terms of food production, not import its food from a foreign warzone.Europe has seen massive increases in food prices over the last two years and yet farmers are still struggling. What gives?