E92: Farming fury - what’s really driving EU protests?

Farmers’ protests have erupted across the EU. In Germany, Greece, Italy and other countries, they’re blocking city centres with tractors, spraying manure on government buildings and pelting officials with eggs. Why? Inadequate compensation, high taxes, red tape and the impact of climate regulations.
Establishment media have dismissed the protests as the grumblings of a coddled group over unfair competition, and suggested that the rallies are driven by the far-right. But others point out that far-right parties are co-opting farmers’ legitimate concerns: those of ordinary people whose needs are being ignored by elites.
What’s really behind these protests? And with the European elections on the horizon, and far-right parties on the rise, what might it all mean?
Our panel, including Yanis Varoufakis, Karin De Rigo and Federico Dolce, investigates. Join us live and have your say!
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[@finianlacy8827]

Surrendering body autonomy to the state is the first step towards our demise.

[@emilysevastou5075]

Farmers are the soldiers of each Nation in the time of Peace .They are essential to every society and they deserve our respect and support!🌻🌹

[@johnbehan1526]

No nations, no farms please. There is nothing more ugly than a fence around land.

[@BinduMavi-rq8zh]

This is matter of food control, not farmer, carporate controlling food, this is humanity vs carporate,

[@GoldSkye]

It’s also a shameless land grab.

[@mariettestabel275]

If Sensible Educated People Were in Charge, War Would Never Break Out Again.

[@atambwalisametana6363]

Probably more to do with corruption and blackmail amongst the political classes than lack of sense among the ordinary people.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

@mariettestabel275 It's revolution. The corrupt system cannot be changed from the inside.

[@dkblack1289]

War will always be there so long as a capitalism lasts. Further, I have come to detest the word of far right which seems to be applied on anyone unless you are in the globalist program.

[@jamesstuart4018]

And yet DIEM25 supports the arming and cooperating with Zelenski & big pharma vaccines, while not supporting big agri nor the protection of the people of the Dombas from right wing politics & EU warmongers

[@advocate1563]

Oh really. The so-called "educated" are the problem. Written by an academic who works with them every day.

[@LarryWebb-gv8dz]

No Farmers No food? Aint this going to starve the people of Europe ?

[@GoldSkye]

The EU is pushing imports. This is part of the scam.

[@ferenckoncz4129]

Still... cannot understand how and why did the price of Olive Oil went up from €5 to €15 (per the same brand of 0.75 l bottle) during the past 3 years?? Daylight robbery!

[@pedroghirotti]

Me and my wife are small organic farmers in Brazil, and here we experience exactly the same reality the Europeans are seeing now. The large corporate for export farmers, mainly growing soy and corn, get billions in subsidies. While the programs that existed 10-15 years ago to help small family farmers, who grow mainly vegetables and fruits for the home market, have pretty much all ceased. Yannis did a very good analysis of the situation in my opinion. One thing I would like to point out: the environmental regulations are restricting to farmers, and I say this as an certified organic farmer for 20 years now. Every year it gets more difficult and more expensive to maintain the certification and the paper work required. Brazil has much less farming regulations than Europe in general, and I can just imagine the hurdles Europeans farmers are experiencing. I disagree that the environmental complains of farmers in Europe are just a “political ploy” of right wing politicians. The Left has to listen to the farmers and find equilibrium. It brings me and back the Gilet Jaunes who refused to pay the environmental fuel tax. If the left wants to win the fight against the right and neoliberalism they have to have farmers, specially the family farmers, on their side. Again Yannis was spot on with his position on this. I’m a hard core left winger socialist , but sometimes I do think there’s a large section of the Left worldwide, mainly urbanites with college degrees, who think that the left should be more concerned with “woke” issues than focusing on the main problem that has not been fixed yet. The economical system!

[@balderdashery1]

On point.

[@rossawilson01]

Nailed it.

[@MrBallynally2]

The farmers do get hit fr all sides. They can't do everything at the same time in the shortest time. When i hear ' far right politicians' then i know im hearing a biased view. It seems to me that there are limits to the current system that are actually aggravated by environmental policies. DiEm is trying to gloss over that. Being a diehard socialist you run constantly against reality walls. I used to be like that, but unlike people on this channel including Yannis i am too much of a realist to understand you cannot reach the socialist heaven by peaceful means. But we know what destruction lies on the other side.

[@bengilkes7676]

These farmers are actually animal farmers and the protests are because the new laws are trying to stop animal farmers from killing the planet. All you meat eaters are pathetically dishonest. As a hard core, left wing socialist I'm so sick of hearing the word 'woke' because everyone has their own definition and moaning about it doesn't help anything because none of you know what the other one is against anyway. When I ask what it means, all I get is "if you don't know, you're part of the problem" - which is pathetic. Another time, someone told me that 'woke' is "spastics on TV" because in the UK we have a children's TV presenter with Down's Syndrome and some of the children who come on as guests are in wheelchairs or have other problems. What is the world coming to?

[@andrewcheadle948]

Don't hold your breath that the left are going to suddenly become sane and rational. That's not going to happen any time soon. Here in the UK we have had a "conservative" government in power for over a decade, who have had the left wing element of their party running the show. That has lead to devastating economic and social issues, that will take decades to reverse. Our "leaders" wrote in to law for the UK to be net zero by 2050. Their own estimate for that is 1.5 trlion. Of course in reality, if we're dumb enough to persue that lunatic agenda, would be a minimum of 3-4 times that figure. Servicing the interest on the national debt (2.5 trillion costs roughly as much as we put in to our health service! On top of this we have mass net migration, mass illegal immigration, record numbers on benefits! A health service not fit for purpose (because it's a socialist system), strikes across the board. A cost of living crisis, a police force who have forgotten what policing is, so crime figures are through the roof. Shoplifting is now rife. A broken education system, councils going bankrupt.... And an endless list of other issues, which would take me too long to type out.... My question to you, is do you think we would have these issues, along with similar happening in Europe, and other parts of the world, if we had strong right wing leaders, instead of weak woke left leaning "leaders"?

[@JabelldiMarco]

We still have quite a lot of small, family owned farms in Germany and a lot of those are managed part-time, because they don't make enough profit from farming even now. And we aren't hot on the Gates of the world buying our farm land, controlling our food supply and forcing us to feed on their GMO, fab-produced, crap from shreddered bugs. We've seen their strategy in India and now Africa and are NOT interested.

[@joeldwest]

You speak truth. The German people are correct to resist those bad gene-spliced poisonous "food" crops. I believe much of the health problems in US are poisonous foods.....so many unhealthy chemicals, additives and unhealthy agricultural practices.

[@carolberry2239]

besides they are environmentally terrible in all ways

[@andrewwilson6085]

It is the same in Britain. Small farms provide top quality food, usually efficiently. It seems that the globalists want us to transport food around the world or eat garbage!

[@alicianieto2822]

Yup. Here in Spain grain is being bought at the same price it had in 1980, according to producers. We don't get the same price in the cities, that is certain

[@selfpreservationsociety]

Working class heros,

[@lizmarron3999]

Yanis is exactly right and has eloquently defined reality of the disconnect between low level farmers and oligarchy farmers. We see this in the US as well, in addition to other industries. The inequality in the US is the highest in all of The Industrial countries in the world. The people are fed up, and we see this everywhere. Fortunately we see many uprisings in the US protesting and forming unions and getting better pay. It is a movement. This is essentially class warfare. History, one’s again is repeating itself. Our Congress is broken and we the people are sick of the failed establishment. God bless Europe wand the US and all countries are out the world and working class.

[@erikeparsels]

I've said it for years, the EU project was to a great extent shaped by a desire to not only subordinate Europe to the United States, but to remake Europe in America's image, with all the American-style problems that has entailed.

[@m.woodsrobinson9244]

Absolutely! And what's even more horrible, in the UK, they voted to leave the EU via Brexit only to install a government that's doing the same thing! Literally everything Brexit voters complained about has gotten worse, - and both the Tories and Labour are in on it, just like Democrats and Republicans in the States. 😢

[@user-js1vq9gc7d]

I think you mean left wing politics in Europe. The centrest and Right wing politics is taking over, generally now called fictitiously "Far Right", instead of plainly Conservative.

[@robwashers]

I think you make the mistake of confusing EU subsidies going to Farmers - It goes to the Land Owners who more often are not the farmers of the land receiving the subsidy

[@Camcolito]

How can you pay for agricultural subsidizes when you have to pay the bills for Ukraine?

[@joeldwest]

The US does such things by letting more and more of their people become homeless, freeze to death, by having poor quality dangerous schools for their children, no healthcare, letting people sicken and die, infrastructure failing, poison water, a slave-labor prison-industeial complex. US prison system is true SLAVERY. DO NOT DO WHAT THE US DOES OR WANTS.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Hello von de leyen!! Unelected war criminal

[@guayabapapayaeco-gourmet1861]

REmember that in Europe there are a lot of Eco-Bio agricultural producers....with not help at all

[@antondalemma5484]

The destruction of the European small family operated farm is what 80,000 family farms in Canada faced in early 80s as entire northern continent sacrificed post 30s economic "full employment" models for "0 inflation" neoliberalism (and all its mechs ensuring property rights over human rights). Today its little more than large scale (massive land holdings) industrial chemical farming and meat factories ... much of it carried out by extremely low paid "guest worker" programs.

[@MrBallynally2]

I used to be a Socialist bit ever since they married the extreme environmentalists we have parted ways. Both parties want ever increasing wider, worldwide compliance mechanisms. They are fascists by another name, just like the corporatists. Constantly running into reality walls. Im almost always disappointed in Yannis. I recoqnise many elements of my former thinking. It is flawed and running towards a dead end. The ONLY way is to decouple and let countries make their own plan. The EU has gone from free trade to fascist. That is what power does. It never stops eating..

[@KlausRiede]

Seems you never experienced fascism - suppose you do live in the EU?

[@user-wn1wv1uy5y]

I personally know small farmers in northern Germany who struggle in a way that half of the family has to take other jobs so they can still do their farming and keep the land. You can't say that all farming in northern Germany is done by big agriculture. Big agriculture is all over hte planet and the smaller farmers suffer. The real problem are Monsanto/Bayer. Nobody really wants to eat their gen-manipulated "food". I am with Vandana Shiva. There needs to be a possibility to not buy from the big Agrochemistry.

[@joeldwest]

Yes. Vandana Shiva is a big hero.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Totally agree!

[@KlausRiede]

no GMO in Germany but even so problems 4 small farmers

[@awakeningthespine]

what is DiEM25. Starting to educate myself about upcoming elections. I need some pointers. I want URSULA out.

[@_jake_doran]

Democracy in Europe now! We need common sense representation, and after listening to this, another eye-opening public forum from DiEM25, it's clear the influence of media across Europe on misunderstandings of basic elements of our shared frustrations

[@awakeningthespine]

I am looking at the parties which are on the website for voting. not sure what diem25 is. we need to do something. because the zionist occupation of countries like France, Netherlands, Sweden is insane. even bulgaria. completely zionist. @@_jake_doran

[@LuisAldamiz]

It's a pan-European socialist party which has only representation in Greece, historically led by Yanis Varoufakis, who was already a well known economist and blogger before being the Minister of Finances of Greece during the very hopeful but dramatically failed first half-year of the Syriza government (2015), famously exposing the authoritarian nature of the "Eurogroup" (EU council of finance ministers) as being led by the IMF and the ECB (and being literally expelled from one of their meetings as result). He was also one of those in the government or other positions of power to resign after Tsipras reneged of the huge "NO" ("OXI" in Greek) vote of Greece against the degrading imposition of a new memorandum by the so-called "Troika" (IMF, ECB and EU President), which effectively rules the EU at least in terms economic (back then it was Lagarde, Draghi and that Luxemburgian corrupt drunkard called Juncker, nothing has improved in all these years). So in terms of credibility, at least if you're eco-socialist and Europeanist (in spite of all), they're fine in principle but they are a small party and most European left wings (very battered in general terms) tend to organize in national dimension (be it state or stateless nation), so for example here in the Southern Basque Country we have several formations, mostly degraded Syriza-style (EH Bildu of Basque dimension and Podemos/Sumar of Spanish dimension) but also a neo-leninist one that has been emerging in the last years (Socialist Movement) but is untested electorally (the will not take the seats anyhow), DIEM is effectively non-existent (I sympathize but not a member and will probably vote for the Socialist Movement if they run or whatever list in that spectrum or radical and revolutionary socialism). It may still be an option on other countries where there is no or just awful radical left options, for example Italy, but in general I think people in that line will cast "useful vote" for one of the main national options (say La France Insoumise or the Wagenkneght list in France and Germany respectively). I'll vote DiEM25 in my Spain electoral district but only if Mugimendu Sozialista, the CUP or some other formation I know they have a real physical existance over here (and are radical and revolutionary, even if small) run. Once I know which lists do actually exist, I'll make up my mind but I hope that the alliances that the Basque Socialist Movement is building across Spain and elsewhere (they are more focused on class war than separatism, which is an aspect I like) fructify in some decent locally based list that can at least express my anger and desire for radical change.

[@JabelldiMarco]

Everybody but the Misters Gates, Soros, Biden & Co. want Ursula the Unelected GONE.

[@jamesstuart4018]

Neo liberal Zelenki fans who support NATO & Phiser

[@joeldwest]

Small agriculture is better for the planet and people

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Small is Beautiful- EF Schumacher

[@danielbtwd]

The future. Everyone will have work and independence and healthy food.

[@bethstrenkoski2311]

Thank you! Listening to this as a long time small organic farmer, who also eats and drinks “weeds” in diet on a regular seasonal basis! Here in Japan. We need our local weeds! What about incorporating and teaching food classes on high quality seasonal edible “weeds” and ways to regularly cook them. That can also be in the farm budget for highly nutritional local organic food.

[@BCSTS]

Yes.....can you volunteer for this....? I would love it ! 🤗

[@danielbtwd]

We're I live there are regular walks teaching and identifying wild edibles, then a lovely meal with these ingredients afterwards.

[@DanielBarber-mo2en]

Bio cyclic vegan agriculture is a way for , make way for new forests, wood chips can provide great fertiliser, we need land enough for this , that's one reason for vegan way?

[@cheri238]

Thank all of you again. Great discussion!!!! Yanis Varoufakis.

[@TheTruthwillOut442]

Very interesting information. I didn't realise what farmers were up against until recently.

[@gerardbiddle1808]

Seize the day 👍👏🙏⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🙏

[@uncleshamus3451]

Chemical farming is crazy

[@user-js4sb4qq2h]

Huge conversation that we have to have and it's happening in the US where small organic farmers are having to go to Mexico in order to evade US policies and still make a living to sell back into the United States. Farmers markets, local farms, local permaculture, and even community and school gardens are blooming everywhere as a result. Before the pandemic I resumed gardening and I've been doing so ever since. The price hikes and price gouging is atrocious. I remember paying $4 for a 12 oz bag of coffee before the pandemic and now the same product is $8 so prices have doubled. Gasoline prices in Los Angeles have been above $5 a gallon since the pandemic.

[@matmcdonnell]

With respect coffee isn’t food

[@seamusrenrut1499]

Over $7 a gallon here in the EU and the median worker here takes home half the disposable income of a US citizen! Your food prices haven't doubled and according to all the data I've read, American workers are the only workers in the world who's real wages are higher than they were in 2019. The average US citizen consumes 200% more than the average EU citizen. Nothing personal but In fairness, you won't get much sympathy from the rest of the world on this one.

[@Quasime42]

Increasingly difficult to even hear the voice of a farm worker let alone farmer in Britain. Jeremy Clarkson missed the point on so many fronts.

[@soxxy8588]

I'm pretty sure that this is what Klaus shwarb meant when he said "we have to prepare for an angrier world"

[@michaellamont2605]

It's OK, the WEF have an army😂

[@josephdibello846]

I take exception to the comment of one of the speakers near the end of the broadcast who called for the elimination of animal agriculture. Animals on the land in a “regenerative” agricultural system are an important component of sustainable land management, healthy soils and a wholesome diet. The problem is the current model of industrial agriculture, and the excessive use of pesticides and the subsidies that enable it. Great summation at the end by Yanis and many informative points made by all the guests.

[@BCSTS]

I took exception also....regenerative farming....great hope for the future of soil, food etc....relies on animals.....but just like crop farms.....it must be done with intelligence & preserving the land & our water! When the speaker threw in the idea to get rid of animal agriculture....I said to myself "He must be vegan or vegetarian"

[@danielbtwd]

It has been proven that one man working 40hrs per week with hand tools on a 1000 square meters of land, using sustainable techniques can generate a turn over of 35000 Euros per year. This study includes time for administration and 4 weeks holiday. Industrial agriculture is completely unsustainable. 20 calories of energy to produce one calorie of food. 8 tons of soil destroyed for every ton cultivated.

[@Hands2HealNow]

Thank you for validating my instinct that individual rights for the aake of corporate power is the force of chaos.

[@peterking5372]

Brilliant ❤reporting love it

[@user-js9dq4we4j]

The world is undergoing rapid change today and multitudes are being left behind. GMO crops are ubiquitous and farmers are affected as well as diets worldwide. Farms are now factories owned by multinational corporations. Yet farming is a sacred endeavor that few Americans at least value. US lifespans have been shortened by junk food. Yet when one considers history farming has always been responsive for sustainability and growth. Nutrition has enabled many peoples to become taller for example yet fresh produce has become a luxury food today. Will artificial intelligence feed us? One of the latest is the invasion of Israel in historic Palestinian lands when settlers cut down olive groves. I'm 77 years old and that makes me glad because I don't want to be around when food comes from machines. I used to visit the village of Chenalho in the Chiapas highlands frequently and US evangelists came with food for the community that was GMO food that to me tasted like Top Ramen. I saw tall hills that ringed the community and my friends urged me to try the evangelical's food because it was "free." Corn, beans and squash became GMO "food" that I found inedible. Today beef barons are invading these towns and destroying the traditional way of life that sustained communities for centuries.

[@alanritchie8890]

Food, don't you just love it. Support the farmers. FFS

[@LuisAldamiz]

I understand that the protests are of small farmers and they did not begin in Germany at all, as said in the debate: it has been raging for some time, first in Netherlands (where the Farmer List got 15% of the vote after many months of protests), then in Poland and Romania (most affected by the Ukrainian dumping) and only then moved to Germany before it spilled over into France (where it was already going on in some ways, remember the farmer murdered by the cops in Brittany for protesting the "mega-basins"?, that was months ago!) and strongly linked to the many years old Yellow Vest movement. Then it has also spilled into other countries like Belgium, Italy and even Malta. There have been some very good insights anyhow, I liked especially the French lady's exposition and also the first one by Federico Dolce, Yanis was also largely correct although he got me perplex with that attribution to right wing ideals of Nordic farmer, which I don't believe are a generalized truth (rather there's a lot of de-ideologization and manipulation of every segment of the worker class).

[@bigbarry8343]

Polish farmers have been protesting against Ukrainian dumping for at least 18 months now.

[@LuisAldamiz]

@@bigbarry8343 - I did mention them. But it must be said that the strong protests with road cuts have been only in the last half year or so. The question is: is this only or even mainly about the Ukro-dumping? Nope: that may be a trigger, the big big problem is the CAP (PAC in Romances, not sure in Slavic) and how it favors big destructive latifundia at the expense of generally more sustainable (both ecologically and socio-economically) small, family-sized "yeoman" or even cooperativist farmer. A farmer is not a farmer, property size matters a lot.

[@user-js4sb4qq2h]

Your work is so exciting!!!!🎉😂❤

[@gavindavis1693]

Farmers do not receive subsidies as we sell in a global market but are forced by law to buy from a very protected market. I ask, who pays the cost of the "labour market regulations" that force wages up from regulation? The answer is not we pay towards that cost is a lie. Farmers are not included in having their income regulated up to inflation. This means we are excluded and hence pay the cost of the "labour market subsidies", alone. As an Australian farmer, I did the research over 20 years ago and what's happening now was a prediction made in 2000 to happen before 2030. Let's look at the so-called "fuel subsidies" that are a return of the "road tax" applied to road-using cars and trucks. As we don't drive on roads, then returning the "road tax" is not a subsidy but a "rebate". Happy to debate this anywhere and if farmers want to win, the demand must be for all regulations to be "inclusive". this means our income is regulated up with inflation as wages are urban businesses do as urban business retail pricing is the "inflation rate". The better way would be to treat urban business and wages the same as farm gate pricing. This means global exposure 100%. As an Australian grain grower, my costs to farm rise between 10 to 20 times faster than farm gate income. Someone explain how that is normal?

[@carolberry2239]

Farm Subsidies have made Europe un-competitive world wide and has made them dependent on the subsidies and do not look outside Europe for markets. They are being paid to NOT farm..hence land barons sit on un-farmed land while being paid subsidies to not farm. The Euro has also been too strong to compete. This has suited Europeans in other ways (services, tourism) but not farming. much agricultural products coming into Europe and to possible markets comes from developing countries whose currency is undervalued. Kind of a systemic failure of unfair capitalistic practices used for YEARS to enrich Europe. Unsustainable and now coming apart at the seams.

[@cultureclashmusicvideo4545]

The being paid not to farm situation sums up the senseless nature of EU policies. Together with migrants not being allowed to work, but at the same time receiving money from the government. It is so absurd it’s a complete failure of common sense.

[@Rebekah347]

Excellent analysis.

[@louismaritz6536]

No one has the right to tell another what to plant or what not to plant. Or how to behave or not behave. Especially how not to bring up your Children in a Christian environment.

[@AlessandroZir]

thanks, this sounds critical enough and indeed convincing!!

[@banjojohn1489]

For a pack of lies and half-truths, it does indeed sound convincing....

[@angelafloodgate4437]

In for less gouvernement less subsidized measures,less taxes. Let people spend that money on higher foodprices.

[@MrBrownstick]

Serious food shortage is on horizon

[@joeldwest]

I see that too. Commercial agriculture ends up sterilizing the soil. Soil health effects human health. I can't believe how greedy-stupid this is, this horrible practice.

[@lizmarron3999]

You can thank Russia for that.

[@MrBrownstick]

@@lizmarron3999 thou is funny

[@cultureclashmusicvideo4545]

@@lizmarron3999 Why thank Russia? It’s the EU and their technocrats that are responsible for these ridiculous policies and corrupt laws.

[@anna-marthott5058]

Max Hastings draws parallels between the tumultuous 14th century and contemporary global challenges. Reflecting on Barbara Tuchman’s insights from “A Distant Mirror." Any comments from the panel?

[@KlausRiede]

Meanwhile we have some tech gadgets and giants distorting the parallel

[@josafia5647]

Thanks

[@allrounder7003]

FFS it gets worse and worse. I notice none of the correspondents were broadcasting from their fields. Yanis is generally quite good on economics but he knows fuk all about agriculture. He thinks anyone with more than 3 goats is a large scale farmer. Why does nobody address the crux of the problem? Just as with housing, land has ceased to be a means of production and is now an investment. I'm glad I bought mine before it was a major impediment, even though I had to go to France to do it.

[@staninjapan07]

Thank you,

[@chesleymesher1913]

Hound dogs keep on the warm track seize the day... from Quebec la Belle province

[@minoudude]

Bonjours, heureux de trouver un autre québécois ici !

[@jimbob-robob]

Thankyou for your efforts... 👍🖖✊️

[@gowrypara3184]

Thank you for this discussion. 😊

[@dmitrievnax]

The environmental policies haven't been implemented yet? What about the 3000 farms buy out in the Netherlands? 😐

[@an67481]

CORRECT

[@jonathanravenhilllloyd2070]

That would be an interesting project for the EU Agricultural Budget to fund: Genetic Modification of Crops with a focus on continued plant fertility (seeds can be gathered and will grow true) And resistance to the coming climatic collapse. Crops that can cope with unpredictable dry spells and torrential rainfall; surprise winter warm spells and then frosts etc.

[@an67481]

If voldemort needs a stuntman, Yannis here is it #twins

[@KlausRiede]

Sidenote: agriprotests in Brussels were not mentioned i german prime news - despite of transmitting from Brussels featuring Orban

[@uncleshamus3451]

Grow your own✌️if you can✌️✌️

[@mariettestabel275]

💯 right! .

[@Notfunnysam]

I call it sabotage..

[@martinjanecek4950]

get vaccinated

[@Notfunnysam]

@@martinjanecek4950 I've been vaccinated....

[@bernizuigzoen5602]

Why the hell do we keep using far right it just right and are RIGHT

[@stephensampson9208]

Greaks greats son go green ...please

[@CommunistConsensus]

Nothing a public option for every product and service of necessity wouldn't mitigate.

[@stephensampson9208]

Agric Banking Co.operative .. Cap it ..........eh

[@jas2429]

Please, how to vote for you? When are the EU parlament elections (I'm from Croatia) and by what name to find you on the list?

[@casteretpollux]

The EU used to be about food security and peace . Now it is about food insecurity and war. Avreements between the EU and Ukraine along with lack of regulatoom in Ukraine has led to agricultural crisis and EU farmer blockades. Ukraine, in a bumper harvest year can crash grain prices and wipe put farmer incomes in the rest of Europe for a year. In the first week of the war Ukraine changed its laws to allow ptivatisation of farm lands into the hands of US Corporate investment firms including Blackrock and Monsanto. Commodification of food is a potentially disastrous and relatively new aspect of capitalism.

[@cultureclashmusicvideo4545]

It’s a nightmare coming true!

[@Hands2HealNow]

Forgive me for saying so but why dont you have a farmer explain these dynamics?

[@pitpalac]

because most farmers, let's say 90% of them, hate or don't believe in leftist ideologies and solutions. This is a simplistic, lazy and unintelligent answer, or that is not based on any sociological research. Considering how the dynamics of things evolve on the European Socio-Political-Economic scene, for me it is a simple choice to make, as an old communist who aspire to become a farmer, i will take the agriculture tools and migrate to the South, to work as slave for the people of Africa, for the rest of my short life. On the other hand, those who are right-wing farmers and others from other social categories will take other type of tools, the blunt or violent ones, and "migrate" to the East to destroy the agricultural lands of Ukraine and Russia, as well.

[@stephensampson9208]

Farm Banking Co operative ..Cap solution .....eh

[@kimongrigorakis2512]

What is the ressistance to mass agricultural supply chains in Greece in 2012 that Mehran mentions in 44:45?

[@dominicmacaulay1227]

😮

[@MrSmegfish]

I can buy Florida premium orange juice in London at half the Florida price A Mc Donalds in Old York UK is about half New York prices.

[@alicianieto2822]

Can we do something ( meaningful) to target the intermediaries? Especially those with de facto monopolies. Specific regulation. As Erick said, they are the problem, if more money from the consumers actually made it to the farmers we may not even need to increase prices, but " a system of oppression" is a vague thing ti fix I am not sure how austerity affects this specific one. I may be misunderstanding, but what is the point of getting more money in the sector if it gets funneled to the intermediaries from both ends? How can the products have a fixed price fir the farmers and not the consumers? ( actual question if anyone can explain)

[@stephensampson9208]

People grow their own food ....village allotment...food fuel fertiliser .....

[@alicianieto2822]

@@stephensampson9208 people in the cities does not have room or time to grow their own food. Village allotment ( of land) would require either the expropriation of private land ( a can of worms) or regulating who is allowed to rent, and I can't think of a way to do/word the second that is not gonna be taken advantage of by the big players or be seen as trade war. There are similar but worse issues regulating fuel or fertilizer access ( I guess u mean access? Or price?). It is just kicking the can down the road without a how to do it. If you have in mind a specific law that will not make things worse or go into authoritarian territory, I would love to read it :)

[@KlausRiede]

Some farmers try direct marketing.

[@vidiad]

Hi all.

[@paddyneville1535]

Why are there no farmers speaking.

[@lacey2450]

Many protests for deciding rights

[@stretchypowers]

I've been waiting the entire video to hear someone touch on this point, until Dusan Pajovic came on and did: for real change in agriculture, some parts of it, animal agriculture, need to be drastically reduced and in time abolished. It's inefficient and really bad for the environment (not to touch on the ethical issues, pertaining to both animals and the humans working there). This is, of course, an unpopular topic, because of entrenched cultural norms, but it's disheartening to see how the problems stare people in the face (like the Netherlands problems with pig farms) but nobody wants to think about the obvious solution.

[@bigbarry8343]

Countries where diets include bugs and very little meat are the epicenters for patoghens and the source of epidemics and pandemics. The supermarkets and mass processed food production should be abolished, with the return to local farming and commerce. This will result not only in better health outcomes but will be much better for the environment as well.

[@19ronin76]

Ahhhh a meat fascist . Simple minds prefer simple solutions. If only we could stop eating meat like "stretchypowers", the planet could be paradise. A very intelligent man from the middle ages once said :"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." So i am eating less than 1kg of meat per week and i pay more than 20€/kg to local producers. I am not gonna except a diet without meat. The only sustainable idea is to forbid meat exports(from EU) , antibiotika use ( that would eliminate the Meat -KZs ) and a max number of animals pro farm. No stretchypowers wants simply that everybody sees the world like him , i would offer you a little bit of liberalism in your world view , it makes the world a better and happier place. We are different in our needs and diet , just imagine stretchypowers world where everybody would eat the same . BORING, isnt´t diversity a good thing.

[@natural.i.s.t.a]

Actually, animals produce the most valuable fertilizer and they are essential for a regenerative agriculture, for repairing the depleted, poisoned and desertified soil. Not animals are the problem, but a poor management of animal farming. Farmers should educate themselves on this subject and change the way they farm. There is no need for herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizer, even at a large scale. Farming animals as tools and polycultures are the future.

[@KlausRiede]

Grazing is important and sustainable...in Spain urgently needed to clean forests preventing #forestfires

[@uncleshamus3451]

Got to get rid of the tractor

[@uncleshamus3451]

Would be enough Togo around

[@andydarbyshire4933]

" Far right" mentioned way too many times in first few minutes. Im out. Sick of these lazy slurs.

[@guayabapapayaeco-gourmet1861]

food safety department is needed. Since most of food production is super contaminated with carcinogenic chemicals And who is to blame? The polítical las that allow cancerigen consumtion of food

[@joeldwest]

Yes, and they should be punished

[@rodrigogarcia354]

The Green agenda 2030 is not under discussion in parliament. European but includes; more taxation cancel supcisions. and extreme regulation of small and medium-scale producers. These measures threaten the control of food distribution. The fight that European producers face is not only against these regulations. It is against a model that ends with producers to give rise to a large agro-industry, where peasant families no longer have a place. This model has been experimented in Argentina since the return to democracy. Taking shape in the time of Menem, hand in hand with INTA and biotechnology laboratories. By design, it was established that small stores would no longer be profitable, due to the cost of implementing new technologies. And little by little, planting pools emerge, which is the financial tool of this great agro industry that is here to stay.

[@holycowpainter]

Today we await Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin....should Russia be a part of Europe again?

[@mariettestabel275]

Make this Man Leader of Europe..

[@happymusicschool-it1qc]

Hello ❤

[@edenmariepeart2450]

does DiEM25 and Via Campesina ...intersect? muy simpatico.

[@holycowpainter]

National Libertarianism or Libertairian Nationalism, either way, You make America,Argentina great again, you make Euro Great again too. MAGA, ,MEGA, The Industrial Revolution came from the Agricultural Revolution, we should do it again.

[@advocate1563]

Clearly farmng is consolidariting. Clearly some interests are trying to industrialised it. At the same time you have NZ advocates trying to reduce meat consumptuon, introduce insect protein, and lab grown meat. Economic, technological and sociological factors are clashing here. Add to that 20% food inflation and incoming food shortages and the population instinctively support the farmers. Food = life. No surprise. Something has to give ... government will give first. Let them eat cake ....

[@BCSTS]

Guess our friend Bill Gates has a following in New Zealand ? 😣 But not only there....probably this has now infected all countries....wherever they can get a foot in the door....in the name of 'sustainable future'......could not be further from the truth !

[@Notfunnysam]

The far right leader of the opposition in canada, Pierre Pouvierre latched right onto this ..and mischarachterizing who and what is to blame. This is his mo... There are books worth of things i could say about this... But i dont want to get all worked up right now.....

[@Tytyfre]

Lost me at environmental catastrophy

[@josephdonahue2996]

The 95% or so of food that is produced conventionally isn't "shit food." It's how the vast majority of food is actually produced. Farmers are not trying to use an excessive amount of chemicals because those chemicals cost a lot. I'm sure in the EU they are ridiculously expensive. A European farmer isn't going to use anything unless they think they really need it. It is not for non-farmers to tell them how to farm. If you want to start out farming yourself and not use chemicals AND charge the exact same price (or lower since you seem to think organic methods are less costly)-- then be my guest(s). If you go back far enough all farmers used what we would call organic methods. There were a lot more farmers back then with even more diversity of operation. They were at the height of sophistication in organic. Even so-- they all overwhelmingly converted to using conventional methods within a short period of time. You can say it was due to "corporate influence" but farmers were generally cautious about practices with which they were unfamiliar. They also each made the decision at the level of the individual farm. To say that they were all conformist fools is absurd. Edit: Take the same variety of cabbage and raise some conventionally and some organically. Then harvest both at the same time, store in the same manner and get them to the consumer in the same timeframe. I daresay you will find very little difference but the price. The conventional cabbage isn't going to be "shit" and the organic cabbage isn't going to be heads and tails better. You probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference in a blind taste test.

[@josephdonahue2996]

@MrDarkgreen Nope... I own a small farm and did only organic for the first 30 or so years of my life. The same variety harvested and stored the same way will be indistinguishable. Nobody gave me anything.

[@milosjovanic7220]

It is nice to be enlightened by all of the knowledge, that l've just heard from all of the speakers, but we all know and feel that on one way or the other, that the whole world is owned by 1% of people. We all know in the deep of , ours souls, that becouse of all that concentrated welth and power, we really don't live in democratic world and, that we actually have no democratic power to took those 1% people their power away. Janis knows that really well becouse he felt this on his own skin, when Cipras, despite people's will not too, survived to 😈TROJKA. The world is in command by Mafia who owns everything. How on earth do you take power from people who owns police, army, media, farmers, banks, hospitals, polity, the judicial system, all the cloud space, EVERITHING!!. In the end there will have to be someone to pull the trigger, if we won't to take away power from them., becouse there is no other way l am afraid. I'm from Slovenia, my country was born from assassination on an independent president candidate on our first independent democratic presidential elections in 1991. Since than l don't belive and trust in any democracy and justice sistem. Now I'm putting all my hopes in AI to save us because I lost my hope in humans in 1991.

[@richardouvrier3078]

Yannis is the best.

[@scottlittlewood4527]

Climate catastrophe? Crisis point??

[@bengilkes7676]

This is all moot if you don't differentiate between "farmers" and "animal farmers". Dishonest. Animal agriculture is killing the planet and I can't imagine that you don't know that. Those farmers need to get a new job.

[@BCSTS]

WRONG ! YOU ARE LISTENING TO THE WRONG PROPOGANDA ! One of the real imperatives of soil regeneration (needed especially since we have killed the soil) is skilled use of ruminating animals ....as of old.....danger resides however where just as in crop farming INDUSTRIALIZATION BY CORPORATE ENTITIES has raised animals in 'factory farms'.....and fed them 'factory/poisoned' foods which raises the methane level extremely high ! Another case where only Quantity matters (corporate greed) not Quality ! Be a vegetarian if you like, but not everyone wants to/should have to be vegetarian !

[@bengilkes7676]

@@BCSTS I'm not a vegetarian because consuming eggs and dairy is just as, if not more damaging to the environment than meat. Animal farming uses far too many resources which could be put to much better use i.e. starving humans could eat the crops and the water used could probably make a new sea somewhere (joke). Anyway go vegan and stop being selfish.

[@christinapenson9476]

Nothing to do with Far Right ffs

[@MeMe-fg5sr]

Everyone needs to check into one small town. We don't need money. Money is counterproductive to life, liberty, and happiness. It seems impossible at first, to be able to live without some kind of money system. But the more you think about it, the more you realize that money just gets in the way of everything. An educated population, patents or companies blocking incredible new technology because they wont earn as much, etc. The list goes on. Check into it.

[@stuartwray6175]

'check into a small town'? Register upon arrival?

[@oladejikoledade6492]

Europe can not survive without Russia's cheap energy period and Europe has pissed the Russians up but Europe does not want to beg or go back to the Russians. (Ukraine is also Russian even if it is separated from Russia )

[@BinduMavi-rq8zh]

Big city big treffic big plution, costly Food products milk vegetables, 2 hours daily waste in treffic, big loan, 20,25 years loan instalment, life in. Stress taxes, long hour works, so shift in small city, no treffic no polution, clean air water, cheaper property no need big loan, enjoy healthy life

[@Do-U-Know]

thx all from alberta/canada (oil beef land colonized for wheat production ) great global look DiEM25

[@fairymangafanfairytail6644]

How convenient for our farmers to be subversient to Europeans and their own nations cutting farming laws, as well as a total lack of protection for their products on the market so they can make a decent living of it. Making them dependant on monetary help. And then they are cut from those helps and starved out of their lands, the vast majority of it being bought by big farmers company. Almost like the richest elite is trying to buy Europe's food production. I recommend Reporter Whitney Webb take on the Epstein scandal, as she also discuss the 1% richest people in the world objectives, the bankers motives and how intrinsically government, corporations and criminal organizations are intertwined. Her work while mainly based in the US can be applied to Europe as well. It os food for thought, for sure. I recommend it. Let's not sell our world.

[@uncleshamus3451]

Dieting for dollars

[@nickbagnall]

It was difficult to listen to so many deluded individuals in one place. I’m unsure whether they are supposed to be experts or idiots just out of university who like something to talk about.

[@michaellamont2605]

I love hearing Left wing problems Left wing solutions are Hilarious 😂

[@mikeharvey9811]

And look at India. We need world change. Barb

[@jamesstuart4018]

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