"Nothing to lose!"
For more than ten days, this heartfelt cry has resounded from the tops of tractors and in farmyards.
It illustrates the agricultural malaise, which has been creeping quietly through the countryside for several months.
Stacking of green, health and climate standards, low remuneration, unfair competition within Europe itself, contradictory injunctions on agricultural practices, denigration of farmers... The multiplicity of causes, some of them old, has already been widely commented on .
But the speed with which this agricultural anger has spread throughout the country also points to another inconsistency.
Politics this time.
For months, the executive has been pushing hard to ask the various players to bring down prices in supermarkets: to distributors, first, through the anti-inflation quarter, then to manufacturers, by asking them to lower their prices.
Not without reason, because the 20% increase in food prices in two years has increased…
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