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Quiet Epidemic of Suicide Claims France’s Farmers
- JPLeRouzic 9y agoit is a sad story. It recalls me the discussion about Portugal and Angola. I was born in this part of France (Morbihan) 60 years ago. Young people of my generation, flighted away from the work in farms. Their parents were just forced to retire early, by state decision. The folks that stayed at home became exploited by the "coopératives", a nice word for a hugly reality. "Coopératives" took all the easy gros profit, while letting to farmers the hard work, the business and health risks and the cost of investments. Banks like "Le crédit Agricole" were really happy to lend money to farmers. As said in the article, farmers debts are huge but they earn much less money than the minimum revenue. However nowadays a subsidiary of "Crédit Agricole" called "Amundi" is enough rich to buy France (the whole France) if it wants!