Despite the agreements reached in recent days, farmers remained mobilized in several regions of France. Nearly nine in ten French approve their protest movement, while 81% of them are willing to pay more to buy meat and french milk.
The crisis breeders will have had great interest to create awareness to the public and policy makers of the seriousness of the situation. According to a BVA-Orange-iTELE poll released Friday, the French farmers support: almost nine out of ten French (88%) approve of the protest movement of French farmers, mobilized for several days to protest against low prices of meat and milk. And they are willing to help: 81% of respondents also state “ready to make a financial effort” to favor the French milk and meat. However, they do not trust (78%) to the government in order to improve their situation.
This crisis is also not complete. Free tolls and highway operations snail, verification of the origin of meat in many supermarkets …. Despite a series of emergency meetings and agreements this week to raise the price of beef, pork and milk, breeders remained mobilized this Saturday in parts of France. They say they want to ensure that the promises will be kept or deem them insufficient results.
Update on movements recencés this Saturday in France:
• In the South-West
In the Ariege, dozens of farmers burning straw and tires and spilled manure to two supermarkets Leclerc and Intermarché Pamiers. In other department stores, controls helped to find “a lot of meat from the Netherlands, New Zealand and some of Spain” at Lidl and Leader Price, said Rémi Toulis General Secretary local FDSEA. Several meat wagons were intended for Restos du coeur.
In the Lot, other farmers have imposed toll free at 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 operations and toll free also took place on the highway, said Gilles Resseguier, deputy general secretary of the FDSEA Lot.
Protesters, about fifty tractors, are then directed to the Leader Price stores, Lidl, Intermarché and Leclerc to check the provenance of the meat. “The car was spotted” in front of Leader Price and LIDL, “who do not play the game,” said Gilles Resseguier, adding that old tires dump trucks, pallets, stones, cans, etc., were dumped there. “There is a risk to be a little nastier the next time,” warned Gilles Resseguier. Other supermarkets were visited elsewhere in the Lot. Again, the origin of the meat is “not very clear” Leader Price and LIDL, said Dominique Clamagirand, the FDSEA.
In the Landes, the FDSEA and the Young Farmers (JA) targeted on the night of supermarkets in five localities, drowning under the straw carts parks Carrefour, Intermarché, Leclerc and Leader Price . “The FDSEA and JA require the distribution link clearly plays the game of local production. All signs are now being monitored! “Warned the FDSEA-Landes.
• In the Central West
In the Deux-Sèvres, dozens of farmers blocked the four centers Leclerc department and have hired discussions on the price and the origin of meat, as well as the price of milk.
• In the West
In Calvados, a fifty breeders have carried out an operation at Cerza zoo near Lisieux, “to make visitors aware of the difficulty of French eating meat,” said Sébastien DEBIEU, general secretary of the FDSEA of the department. Briefly blocking the crates, they controlled cold rooms of the two restaurants, where they say they found “Italian meat and Ireland”.
In Morbihan, Leclerc centers accesses were blocked Valves and seven other cities with a total of some 250 farmers, according to the FDSEA.
• In eastern
In the Aube, between 200 and 300 farmers have filtered access to supermarkets Leclerc, Carrefour and Géant Casino de Troyes, while allowing customers to walk there. “Our action is part of a vision with consumers we do not want to penalize, as this should be a win-win relationship,” said Benoît Leveque, the FDSEA. Farmers intend to “give 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.
According Beulin Xavier, president of the FNSEA, the voltage remains very strong, “we have listed another twenty next Wednesday by punch operations”. The problem for farmers is primarily European. The bosses of German and Irish farmers federations also called Friday a Brussels financial support for their dairy farmers, while many marched in northern Germany against the price too low milk. “It is unacceptable that our farmers endorsing the economic consequences of a political crisis between Russia, Ukraine, the European Union and the United States,” wrote in a statement Joachim Rukwied and Eddie Downey, head of the federation respectively DBV German and Irish IFA, after a meeting in Berlin. A European Council of Ministers of Agriculture on milk will take place on September 7
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