French farmers gathered in droves on the outskirts of Paris on Monday in a staged protest against government environmental regulations.
Nearly two months after French farmers dumped 300 cubic meters of fertilizer in front of the state capital of Cahors, hundreds of tractors and haystacks have blocked the highway leading to Paris. according to ABC. The paper argues that French farmers are over-regulated and forced to compete with lower-cost food imports from countries without similar onerous regulations.
According to ABC, the farmers pose a “crisis” for Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who has been in office for less than a month. “We came to protect French agriculture,” said Christophe Rossignol, 52, a farmer and protester. “We go from crisis to crisis.”
The beginning of the siege of Paris by the peasants.
Eight highways leading into the capital have been blocked indefinitely by hundreds of tractors.
Farmers from several provinces are expected to come to shore up the dam within the next few days.
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France is the EU's largest agricultural producer, according to Reuters. Protesting farmers say they are not being paid enough wages and are being held back by environmental regulations. Protesters are outraged by the fact that the EU has chosen to import food from Ukraine and South American countries where environmental standards are not respected. Farmers also face new demands to keep 4% of their total farmland fallow, the report said. (Related: French President Emmanuel Macron sparks controversy by suggesting unvaccinated people are 'no longer citizens')
How can you not love this French peasant?
They are literally throwing fertilizer at government buildings to protest high taxes in the agricultural sector.
This is in front of the DDTM building in Quimper, expressing general contempt for the government that is trying to keep them out… pic.twitter.com/MJA5VsqjGF
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“It's too much. I'm really fed up,” said Geraldine Grillon, a 46-year-old farmer. Said Reuters blamed President Emmanuel Macron and the European Union.
