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Why Lactalis, the milk giant, is in turmoil again

2024-02-28T18:45:26.869Z

Highlights: Why Lactalis, the milk giant, is in turmoil again. Since 2016, the industrial group had finally established peaceful relations with breeders. As ties have hardened in recent months, he is a target of agricultural anger. In Laval, on February 21, the head office occupied for several hours by the Confédération paysanne. In Paris, the stand at the Agricultural Show vandalized twice by angry farmers. In Italy, sanctions for “unfair practices” on the price of milk paid to its breeders…


DECRYPTION - Since 2016, the industrial group had finally established peaceful relations with breeders. As ties have hardened in recent months, he is a target of agricultural anger.


In Laval, on February 21, the head office occupied for several hours by the Confédération paysanne;

in Paris, the stand at the Agricultural Show vandalized twice by angry farmers;

in Italy, sanctions for “unfair practices” on the price of milk paid to its breeders… While the European agricultural world has been in turmoil for months, Lactalis has once again become the symbol of the abuses exercised by the giants of the dairy industry on Breeders.

With its dozens of brands (Lactel, President, Galbani, etc.), this giant of 85,000 employees, with a turnover of 28 billion euros, is under fire from critics in France for the pressure it would impose on the 10,000 French farms which deliver their milk every day.

This Thursday afternoon, the world's leading cheese maker, engaged for months in a standoff with its main producer organization, Unell (70% of its milk collection, or 3 billion liters of milk...

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Source: lefigaro

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