Dairy blockade is just the start, warn farmers
Dairy processors and supermarkets face the prospect of further protests unless there is a full reversal of milk price cuts, warns James Badman of Farmers For Action. The warning came as hundreds of farmers and scores of tractors blockaded Robert Wiseman Dairies at Bridgwater, Somerset. The demonstration was one of a series of protests targeting dairy processors across the country on the night of 19-20 July, 2012. Farmers fear they face being driven out of business by cuts that have seen farmgate milk prices slashed by up to 4p per litre. Processors claim the cuts are necessary because of a collapse in world cream prices.
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The sad thing is it's going to take climate catastrophe or major war to put the farmer back into the mind of the public. We used to all be farmers and we knew, now that we have pushed people into cites(barns for domestication) and set up democratic votes where larger population centers control resources of smaller communities with less voters and representation. Fuck it's sad, hope it happens soon while the last generation of family farms still exist to save us from ourselves. I don't have my herd any more and I do is cry these days, I see now how the world works since I left the farm and went into mining and I hate it. The cows had my back and I had theirs I am a failure and a sellout.
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Just keep milk prices high and we farmers won't run them down
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The price isn't being reduced due to over production, it's being reduced so processors and retailers can increase their profit margins. It is that simple. Also, farmers do not get paid to over produce. Quotas and eventually the decoupling of farm subsidies was introduced as part of the CAP reform (before anyone starts banging on about subsidies like the guy in Ford Fuels next to the Wiseman site did to me!).
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@488scooby Well said lad , i agree 100% with you!
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keep protestings lads ,fuck the supermarkets,and the goverment,
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