After a series of emergency meetings and agreements this week to raise the price of beef, pork and milk, farmers say they want to ensure that the promises will be kept or deem them insufficient results. Cheap Leader Price stores and Lidl were denounced in several places for the origin of their meat. Breeders angry did not loose the grip on Saturday, a day during which the shares were carried out across France, while their struggle finds a certain echo in public opinion. According to an Ifop poll to be published Sunday in the newspaper Sud-Ouest, more than one in two French (55%) is ready to buy more expensive its food products to ensure proper income for farmers.
So, this Saturday, in Ariege, dozens of farmers ignited straw and tires and spilled manure before two Leclerc supermarkets Pamiers and Intermarché. In other stores, controls helped to find “a lot of meat from the Netherlands, New Zealand and a bit of Spain” at Lidl and Leader Price, said Rémi Toulis, general secretary of the FDSEA Ariege. Several meat wagons were intended for Restos du coeur.
Toll Free in Lot
In the Lot, other farmers Free imposed tolls Gignac and Cahors South, on the A20 before checks in supermarkets of Cahors. Tractors slowed traffic, while the toll free Gignac was open, said Alain Arcoutel, board member of the FDSEA Lot. Meat trucks coming notably from Spain and Portugal were searched in Souillac.
In Cahors South, snail and toll free operations also took place on the highway, said Gilles Resseguier, deputy general secretary of the FDSEA Lot. Demonstrators, about fifty tractors, then headed towards Leader Price stores, Lidl, Intermarché and Leclerc to check the provenance of the meat.
“We spotted the car park” in front and Leader Price LIDL , “‘who do not play the game,” said Mr. Resseguier, adding that old tires, pallets, stones, cans, etc., were dumped. “It may be a bit nastier the next time,” he warned.
Young farmers to maneuver in the Landes
In Landes, union and Young Farmers have targeted on the night of supermarkets in five localities, drowning under the straw parks in Carrefour trolleys, Intermarché, Leclerc and Leader Price. “The FDSEA and JA require the distribution link clearly plays the game of local production. All the signs are now being monitored!” warned the FDSEA-Landes.
In the Deux-Sèvres, dozens of farmers blocked four Leclerc centers and engaged in discussions on price and the origin of meat, as well as the price of milk. In Côte d’Or, a manifestation of a sixty farmers dumped manure in front of stores near Dijon, police said. In Calvados, fifty farmers have conducted an operation in Cerza zoo near Lisieux, said Sébastien DEBIEU, general secretary of the FDSEA of the department.
briefly Blocking the boxes, they controlled cold rooms of the two restaurants, where they say they have found “the Italian meat and Ireland”.
Control from meat
In Morbihan, access Leclerc centers were stranded in Vannes and in seven other cities with a total of some 250 farmers , according to the FDSEA, while in the Aube, between 200 and 300 farmers have filtered access to supermarkets Leclerc, Carrefour and Géant Casino de Troyes, while letting customers enter.
“Our action is in line with a vision consumers we do not want to penalize, as this should be a win-win relationship, “said Benoît Leveque, the FDSEA.
farmers plan “to put the cover in the days to come if nothing moves because of the agreements, be it on the meat or milk, should not we,” he said.
(With AFP)
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