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Farmer protests betray a deeper crisis our politicians won't confront (nation.cymru)

submitted 2 years ago by Navarian@lemm.ee to c/wales@lemm.ee

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Protests are erupting all over Europe as farmers feel the squeeze of policies that on the one hand demand that they farm more sustainably and on the other continue to sell produce at prices that struggle to meet the cost of production.

At the same time, the last weekend of January saw the first hunger march in the South Wales valleys in a hundred years against a backdrop of spiralling food bank use and a shocking rise in cases of malnutrition.

In the past few weeks there has been a stream of headlines reporting alarming if all too predictable research pointing to the declining physical and mental health of our citizens, particularly children, as a result of poor diet. In short, if you need to see the evidence of a broken and dysfunctional food system, turn on the news.

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[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And that's all what I covered in my initial reply, you're so hung up that I "offended" farmers with what I said, meanwhile you're basically regurgitating the symptoms to those that are the root causes of all the problems you've listed here. Also let's be objective here, obviously I'm not talking about all farmers, but definitely what seems like the majority.

Food prices affect us all, and I'm not some rich person where these things don't effect me, I realize that the farmers are just as much victim as the rest of us, but farmers in America, England, Poland, everywhere constantly vote and support those that work against them.

Also yes the right wing and right wing foreign entities are stirring this shit up, just like they helped foster Brexit, just like they're fostering every growing rift in our civilization, to be blind to it is absolutely to be ignorant to it.

[–] Navarian@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I see that you've no interest in actually engaging in discussion and just want to say what you feel should be said, so I'll leave it here.