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- Thousands of farmers across Europe have ramped up protests against EU measures and rising prices, with roads blocked in Poland, Hungary, Spain, and Belgium.
In western Poland some 1,400 tractors took part in a protest in Poznan and roads were blocked across the country, while in Spain, farmers cut off traffic hoping to enter cities including Toledo and Zaragoza for the fourth day in a row.
Many of the farmers bore banners saying no to the EU's Green Deal, aimed at bringing down greenhouse gas emissions.
Farmers in Poland and Hungary are also complaining that the European Union is not doing enough to halt cheap imports from Ukraine undercutting local produce. They want the EU to restore a requirement on Ukrainian truckers to obtain a permit to work across the 27 member states.
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In Poland, farmers are protesting under the slogan „Without us, you will be hungry, naked and sober"
😂😂😂...hilarious way to protest...
@@deepaknanda1113 But slogan is catchy
Sober is your slogan.
When the UK farmers protest the bbc wont show it.
Sorry to break your little fantasy bubble, but the BBC have already reported on their website of Welsh Farming Unions threatening to take action.
@@andrewjones-productions no live coverage? maybe put a bit dramatic scene to show support for the UK farmers?
@andrewjones-productions 1:28 reporting on a Welsh website is not the same thing. The comment u replied to mentioned uk farmers & u highlight 1 website. Pathetic.
ENGLISH FARMERS STILL SITTING ON THEIR HANDS
@@andrewjones-productions You just proved Roland... right there. A small article of about 200 words obscurely hidden under BBC/Welsh/Mid before you can even find the article..
The sign on the tractor - No Farmers, No Food, No Future - is so right. Governments often say that their first duty is security and defence, but I would argue the equal to that is feeding the nation, enabled by policy not stifled by bureaucracy.
Dung. Farming is a business, and that business model is being destroyed by the inefficiencies of subsidies, particularly the increased cost of farmland.
In Poland, farmers are protesting under the slogan „Without us, you will be hungry, naked and sober"
why naked tho@@Blido
@@jakislol1111 Who make hemp and cotton?
No farmers no food 🥑 🥝 full support with farmers
NO BOOZE OR BEER EITHER!
Damn right,No Farmers,NO Food.
What about the supermarkets tho? They always have food and even if they do i doubt the local corner shop will have ran out too.
What about fishing or hunting?
@@Happysecret180if you have hundreds of millions of people fishing and hunting everyday every ecosystem would definitely fall apart.
@@Mr.Frunddles there would be some food, which was my point
@@Happysecret180 yeah, for like a day or two, which was my point.
Polticans have never heard the phrase, "don't bite the hand that feeds you" have they?
Politicians don't serve the people, they serve those who fund them in the power/money(money rules the world). It is no coincidence
A professor lying for the BBC AGAIN 😂😂😂
Not even a Professor - an actor pretending to be a professor reading from a government script.
@@user-xg9qz5dr5v nooo way ofcom wouldn’t allow these lies 😂😂😂 CANCEL BBC
Professional propaganda these people getting massive salaries will say whatever is current wef/government narrative
A designated expert.
He is funded by the EU so he is going to lie thay all do,we can't eat politics the EU don't understand eny thing else 😢
Don't bite the hand that feeds. For real.
EU tells farmers what and when to plant? It reminds me about USSR.
Bot is terrorussia
It is the EUSSR
They only get paid to not grow food in the UK
When someone tries to enact control over money in usa or europe: communism!!
It is same in india
Climate activists influence in EU policymaking is a big headache for farmers and ordinary citizens...
until climate catastrophes become the headache
sorry but farmers should get paid more just dont do this. Its not a protest it is borderline anarchy.
@@DarkTempler1 when farmers protests happened in Afro-asian countries west was supportive to them but when it happens in your own backyard it's anarchy...
@@Koshokarfalse dichotomy. You
Are deceived
@@Koshokar food security for ordinary citizens and healthy revenue for farmers is important than climate anxiety of elites...
why is BBC misrepresenting what the farmers are protesting?
Why does your comment make absolutely no sense what so ever
What are they really protesting?
State funded broadcaster obv
@@catmonarchist8920 Think Snow White's apple. The french are throwing UKR produce over the road.
@@CricketEngland The BBC are misrepresenting why farmers are protesting because half the report was taken up by a pro-EU professor who is not a farmer. And they let him have the final word.
Scottish farmers never got paid as the SNP Govt took the money for themselves
Delete that comment or I will report you!
@@Spectre10139
Snp are all thieves. Fact
BS,
@@Spectre10139 fr? Why 😂😂😂
Gotta have MPs in campers
Slavery was never about owning another human being; it was about owning the production of that human being.
👍"Slavery was never abolished, it was extended to include all the colors(everyone)" - Charles Bukowski
As for "what to plant and when", just look up something called 'Cash Crops', and why it needs to be regulated in the first place. As for the climate plan over the coming years and decades, it's absolutely insane and will never succeed. It forces home owners to pay for renovations to reach energy rating A by 2050, and this is planned to be implemented gradually with forcing renovations to at least energy rating D in less than 10 years (not sure if it's by 2030 or 2033, but it's one or the other and it's easier to just say less than ten years).
This climate neutral plan by 2050 will never happen. It's pure insanity. They're forcing major costs and losses just for the sake of climate neutrality, that the governments won't shoulder. Forcing major costs on citizens for this, will never be able to be practically implemented, ever.
It will be implemented but not by putting in an unrealistic date, that will make the economics rise to a factor that is unaffordable, and not all the renewable energy systems are viable at present, they are still a work in partial progress, the current politicians will be dead or retired by 2050 and will just be extended, all the stuff that can be implemented without it costing more will be adopted quicker, everything else won't. Europe has a green energy policy because we don't have an independent energy supply, wind, nuclear, solar and grid upgrades in part will give us a majority of energy independence before 2050 and that's the bit that's important, the rest can follow, if the greens want more, make them pay!?!
@@TomTomicMic I'm not saying they won't try to implement it. They already voted to pass it last summer after all. The problem is that it's completely unrealistic. People won't accept it. Even just the part that affects farmers have already made them perform these international protests.
Imagine what will happen when all home owners, including apartment buildings, will need to comply with the new energy rating requirements, and the gradual increase required for it which will keep costing a lot of people a lot more money.
Then there is even more to consider. The average amount of greenhouse gas just for cooling and heating a home per person per year, is 700kg in the EU as a whole. That's just the average, so keep in mind there are those above it too.
Then there are countries like for example in Scandinavia, where the average is around 20-30kg per person per year that's spent on just cooling and heating.
But these energy ratings will essentially affect everyone the same economically. These kinds of issues will also be driving up the amount of controversy surrounding this whole insane plan. People will likely boycott it, across all of EU.
AI will help hopefully
You will have nothing, pay your taxes and be happy! The floggings will continue until morale improves!
and refuse to buy cheap enrgu from russia
It's about time farmers got paid a decent wage for a decent days work.. Farmers = food
and then they employ foreniers who took my work, ruled by supermarkets..
I don't mind a foreigner pursuing a career in my country, so long as they are there legally. Overall, I think that it is so often overlooked that producers are price takers, not price makers. Producers are only able to sell a product for what someone else is willing to buy it for. If they made their own prices then the middlemen wouldn't buy it and you're looking at $5.00 USD for tomatoes in August. If you want to support farmers then buy directly from them.@@user-qp6uk7bw6z
The average farm in Europe needs 4.5 years to recoup operating costs and break even. If farm failures, a dire threat to the human race at this time are to be cut in half, the government will need subsidize education and start up costs, provide land grants, provide equipment etc. If this were done, and it reduced the BE point to around 2.75 years it would double the number of successful farms without affecting compliance with existing regulations or green standards.
The problem here is high land prices, and that were caused by subsidies.
The subsidies created a demand for farmland, and that caused the prices to skyrocket.
And importing costs for cheap food elsewhere?
Fuckin dummies- you can do that with manufacturing all day long but it CANT BE DONE WITH FOOD.
stupid government
Land can be financed, it doesn't have to be paid off immediately, though I do agree it is very expensive to buy land currently. I think that part of this is that it is a scarce resource, one that cannot be easily renewed. @@anotherelvis
It's all by design. The GMO companies are paying the government to do this to farmers
Why isn’t the BBC reporting this on their main news bulletins?????
What’s going on !!!!
Because they want to hide it
The BBC does have a piece on what's going on currently. I am having to research this for my university class and used them as a source as well.
Has the BBC coverage you have observed been any where near RUclipss ? And where did you get your coverage from? Because here in Britain the European demonstrations have hardly been shown!🤔
100% behind the farmers
Good of you to finally cover it.
Farmers have right to defend themselves..
wouldn't we need the farmers to grow more food, if we are letting half of the world into Europe?
True lol
Solidarity with European farmers!
No farmers, no food... no people. THAT'S THE PLAN!
Depopulation for mother Earth ?
They're just replacing the Farmer products with south america ones
EU at its best
They have the same problems British farmers have. The government over here have done s** all as well. Brexit has unfortunately not improved the quality of our leaders.
Congratulations BBC for finding a relevant story 3 weeks after I heard about it while I live in Western Canada. 🚜🚜🚜🚜👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻🇨🇦🍁
😂😂😂💪🏻
This better be sarcasm. Or you're living under a rock.
Extreme weather is not increasing. Saying it is doesn’t make it so.
Please visit us in southern Europe during the heatwave. And they are getting worse every new summer. Maybe it will be more than 40C in UK again, like it was few years ago.
Full of bs as usual😂
“If there isn’t a global ecological and economic disaster, by golly, we ought to create one!” - The EU.
You never mentioned the other 12 countries taking part,typical BBC
"The EU made a concession with farmers."
No they didn't, they simply made a concession with their own bureaucrats.
The world economic forum is the problem, but the BBC would only the public half the problem.
The WEF policy behind this is Reducing the Surplus Population. You know, the thing Scrooge refers to. Look it up…
Watch Wales!
"[...] ultimately the problem is that we expect as citizens and consumers the food to be cheaper than it's possible to produce, so that's the real issue." I disagree with that. Farming is extremely overregulated in the EU and farmers do not have much say in their own bussiness. Despite all this regulation for european farmers there is not that much regulation regarding the middleman prices and the final customer prices. Farmers are sometimes forced to sell to the middleman at a lower price than production costs but despite that the final cost to the consumer is around 20x the price the middleman paid. I would say that the real problem is that all this regulations seem to be elaborated AGAINST the farmers. The farmers, as much as any other trade, should receive a fair payment for their work/products. I cannot believe that it is due to "consumer perception" that a farmer is getting paid 0.11€/Kg of oranges and this oranges are sold in supermarkets at +2€/Kg. All that regulations for what? WTF😵💫
Prayers for all those farmers! They are heroes!
There is no peace in the world since 2019
NO FARMERS
NO FOOD
NO FUTURE
Farmers do what they want, they all go for the most profitable culture, which in turn will mean everybody loses as they inundate the market with the same product, making import of other products necessary. Also they will use chemicals and antibiotics, because that will bring them the most profit. Food regulation is paramount if you want your food to be healthy.
Grow hemp in the unused fields, it will add nutrients into the soil and the hemp can be sold to those who use it for textiles etc.
Ursula should go work in the fields for a month and only then she will be able to comment on this matter.
6:53 It's not up to these "experts" how the market "should" work, it's up to the market. If people like this get to decide things we're really in the soup.
100% support for Farmers. We need to do the same here...and it's coming..just wait. Perhaps if food was a little more expensive, we'd have less obesity, Farmers could make a living, and Supermarkets wouldn't 'rule the World'..thereby helping our strapped NHS?
No farmers no food!
That's what they want
Odd but I was reading a book called " The Man With the Iron Heart" in which Himmler decided in 1940 that the Poles must be reduced to absolute penury.Odd how so many years later the EU appears to have reached the same conclusion and Tusk seems the man to do it.
In Croatia there is 0 news on this. I guess we have no independent media here...
It's absolutely disgusting. Taking into account the fact how difficult it was for Ukrainian farmers to grow this grain under russian shelling and how many Ukrainian farmers were injured and killed by russian landmines in their fields, committing such acts of vandalism and barbarity shows the utter absence of moral values and intellect.
Such incidents of humiliation and inhumanity mustn't be tolerated in a civilized world.
Our media is pretty silent about it 😢 Greetings from Germany ❤
Here in Americas our produce and fruits are beautified, selected by computers from a standard of shapes and sizes for super markets to be sold and the ugly ones are returned back to farmers field to rot. There are no food insecurity but poor management.
exactly no work for humans
The last guy on this report says that as consumers we should expect the price of food to rise. The issue here however is that the greedy supermarkets take such a huge cut on food that they make it almost impossible for farmers to make a decent living and for consumers to be able to feed their families at a reasonable cost. There needs to be regulation on the supermarkets and greedy elites who are making life miserable for everyone.
All power to European farmers!!! EU bureaucrats know nothing about farming, etc. All they know is how to spend money and live lavishly.
UK farmers are protesting but no reports on that
So a protest in Barcelona has signs on tractors in English??
My support to the farmers, and that's any farmer any where who is facing anything like this nonsense with their governments. This isn't right. BBC, thank you for NOT turning off the comments. Too many news companies are silencing individuals by turning off comments.
Governments, you need to help farmers develop to being able to not use pesticides. And stop allowing GMO BS to control the food system. I don't know about EU, but USA nonsense of punishing organic farmers is INSANE.
Just imagine if Joe was a farmer, he would be feeding Horses to the Hay.
This is about European farmers. Vulgar USA politics is completely irrelevant.
@@andrewjones-productions Like most folk not too bright you missed the point. Well done 👏
Dear Professor Tim Benton: You are full of BS and have you ever heard of weather modification weapons?
Is that AGRICULTURAL diesel that they are using to drive their tractors, often hundreds of miles on public roads ?
Why did the BBC have a "professor" on instead of a farmer? I geuss farmers are not considered "experts".
how could they expect the government to control the prices
Actual government sucks a lot... 😂 ev blah blah for the last for years blah ev Savin the planet I did not see rain in 3 years after ev noonsense kicked in. 😅
Go look deeper buddy. The BBC are not telling you the whole story. Are you aware the Dutch government have bought out 750 farms in the Netherlands and shut the farms down. They plan to do this with 3,000 Dutch farms by 2030, in the name of nitrogen reduction. There is to much to explain here but they want to shut down farming. What happens when they do that?? We are the carbon they want to reduce.
Why is BBC not reporting about the farmer protests in Dover? Bias?
Tax breaks for farmers is a joke.
You cannot get a tax break If you cannot make any income in the first place !
Got to love the harmony the EU brings
First time the BBC reported on it.
The remoaners got anything to say?
Amazing how quickly they will bend over when real pressure is applied. God bless the farmers
Farmers have been underpaid for sure, no doubt. Look at Turkish farmers. They are to be given, as per constitution, 1% of the budget every year, which they haven’t received in years. Their equipments have been repossessed by banks etc. Farmers, despite the fact that they are our literal source of sustenance, have been neglected, also by society. Look how fast ppl left farming in the last 100 years.
Totally wrong. Farmers are getting cents for there product while big box markets are making all the profit.
Farmers are protesting about high diesel costs,extra red tape on goods,fuel emissions targets alk unreasonable set by eu bureaucrats.
It won't let me spell last word correctly with an l before the d, no n.
so the cabbage patch kid protests with farmers who don't want restrictions on the use of pesticides !
has she given up being an environmental activist, has she got over that phase ?
" Reform" to what Tim? Explain why change is needed.
"European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen" - who absolutely no one watching this video had any chance to vote for or vote against. Let that one sink in.
Why use the term ‘gripe’!? 😡That’s so disrespectful and not accurate…the whole situation is a lot more serious and the BBC can’t manage to represent it accurately unless they’re interviewing an ‘expert’. If governments want to improve farming they should allow farmers to write the guidelines.
"Europe farmers?" How do Britain farmers feel about this? I'm sure the Africa farmers are concerned but America, Asia, and Australia farmers less so, right?
It's all by design. The GMO companies are paying the government to do this to farmers
The media in Brazil didnt say noting about this what happebns in europe
It's their problems, not ours
There was a farmer that won the lottery, asked what he would do with the money he said "Guess I will keep farming until the money's all gone". Small Farmers do need to adapt and diversify their income streams, farming alone isn't enough. Add solar energy production to crop fields, some plants like strawberries produce higher yields with partial shade. Farmers in west Texas have added Shrimp & Fish farms, seafood can be grown in large tanks almost anyplace. Bioreactors are easy to build to grow algae as protein source for human & livestock consumption, algae uses photosynthesis to convert CO2 & water into oxygen and carbohydrates (which algae uses as food), some algae types produce fuel oil. If anything, politicians might just create the incentive for farmers to ADAPT, those that can't adapt will die off.
Agree 100% ,. Not keen on your Middle East reporting though.
No farmers no food
The same thing happened in 1930's Germany so it just go's to show what way EU commission is going!
I dont think anyone who is in the cabinet of ministers or on tv can do the job of a farmer, farmers produce food for everyone stop this shit, let the farmers farm!!!
they should have there rights and its there right to protest for there rights
Professor Tim Benton is talking through another part of his anatomy.
It's control that's the problem, not just the price of food.
Europe and the greater expansion overseas has the powers to produce more than any America. Who is stopping it and for what?
Why are they protesting
the garden of tractors 😢
Our EU regulations are important!! I respect farmers and i certainly would vouch for increased support in any financial way... but to ask to make regulations to be dropped is a big nope for me. Without regulations farmers would without a doubt use antibiotics in their livestock feed, continue to use pesticides and other chemicals with traces of heavy metals or even cut cornors in animal cruelty. We should respect the farmers aswell as the food we eat, and therefor another measure is required. I support any protest regarding income because they clearly deserve more but dont go around demanding regulations to be dropped! We have some of the healthiest foods in the world due to our strict regulations and they should pride emselves on this fact.
Regulating farming isn't just about the quality of pest prevention or treatment of livestock. A big part of it is also to regulate cash crops. Regulating cash crops means that a farm can't use all their fields to plant whatever is making the most money at the cost of the nation's ability to feed itself.
And because EU is the EU, that burden of avoiding cash crops for the sake of feeding everyone in the EU, is spread out across all of EU. So one nation's farmers isn't just for feeding their own nation, it's to cover their share to feed all of EU.
If a nation doesn't regulate cash crops properly, and farmers goes haywire and only plant cash crops and follows the trends that way in order to maximize profits, while the nation becomes unable to feed itself, it means while the farmers gets richer, the nation gets poorer because all of a sudden all the food would need to be imported which costs a lot more.
There is also a potential damage to the earth if cash crops doesn't get regulated, but anyway, there are macroeconomical consequences which affects everyone if farmers are allowed to chase profits unregulated.
Farms are businesses that make food. They are not run all by honest angels.
Some regulations should exist but when farmers have to pay for that regulation, ie red tractor and don't get a premium like they used to.
Red tractor asks them to declare how many tonnes they have for instance, why? That has nothing to do with food security. Also they have to have red tractor to trade their product even if it goes abroad.
A few years ago, buy local was a thing but now they seem to want to buy from abroad with all the transport pollution etc, if that's a thing? Co2 makes plants grow!
@@roberthiggins6401 It's a balancing act. A lot of regulation is needed for a lot of reasons when it comes to farming, but at the same time what's happening with the EU's crazy plan, is that it forces too many to pay too much out of their own pockets.
No plan, not even when it's for that green goal in mind, will ever be accepted on this large of a scale, while forcing the costs of it on the citizens.
This plan isn't just going to hurt the farmers. It's going to hurt practically everybody in a significant financial manner.
This is on a much grander scale than just farming, and it'll hurt way more people than just the farmers. The farmers are just the first to cry about it, but more tears will join them soon from the rest of the EU.
@@Joppi1992
I totally agree that what ever is coming will affect very nearly everyone, without a doubt.
Agriculture does need to be reformed to help nature. But farmers need to be onboard and paid correctly. So if that means you pay a little more for food so be it, it’s not like people will be dying of starvation, we’ve gotten too greedy.
dare the bbc not say 'because of climate policies'? propaganda by omission.
Block all food and drink to EU parlament!!!!!
Vem har denna otroligt tråkiga röst ? 🙃
You have to know that.The Poles people its from Poland -Europe not from EU!!!
Support our Farmers!
No Farm No Food No Future!💪🐄💪🐄
The Major Corporations are trying to set their Grip! Please Buy Local from Farmers , Markets and Local Grocers! Fortify your town and people our future depends on this.
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At least they can't blame this one on Brexit, although given time I'm sure a way can be found.
Ukraine is not a EU member.
They don't want the farming to end up like America
How?
bbc now organizes republic day parades with tractors
What's. Stopping. Farmers. From. Starting. A. New. Party. ????