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The protesting farmers have been blocking highways with their tractors and lighting fires containing asbestos (also on / near highways). You could argue that th
by Thiez 3y ago
The protesting farmers have been blocking highways with their tractors and lighting fires containing asbestos (also on / near highways). You could argue that the former should be allowed as part of a protest, but the latter moves you squarely outside the "law-abiding citizens" category.
- Simon_ORourke 3y agoEuropean farmers appear to be a singular career category where the government(s) will pay you to be a failure.
- olliej 3y agoThat’s the case in the US as well. What do you think agriculture subsidies are? If you want countries that don’t subsidize agriculture that has been Aussie and NZ since the 80s iirc. Though I haven’t lived in those countries for a decade or two now and Covid and various financial panics over the last decades resulted in a variety of corporate hand outs so it seems plausible that those businesses have got some government support since then.
- doktrin 3y agoWhat makes them a singular category in this regard? Genuine question. Virtually all agricultural sectors enjoy some form of subsidy, for what I think are obvious reasons. Likewise it's not like the idea of government money going to less-than-optimally-productive labor is unheard of.
- PeterStuer 3y agoIt's a group that by the nature of their production cycle is very exploitable (you have to sell the harvest or it litterally turns into manure), and yet they are extremely essential to a population's survival (unlike e.g. hairdressers, no food ruins your month in a way an overdue trim can't match). So you want to keep farms up even in times the market wont.
- coldtea 3y agoNo, that's major US finance companies...
- fransje26 3y ago> The protesting farmers have been blocking highways with their tractors Yeah, that's kind the idea of a protest. If you don't create enough inconvenience, than it will be, at best, a small line in a newspaper. "10 thousand farmers gathered in an abandoned meadow and drove around in protest." Yes, cute. They are going this far because, obviously, they have the feeling they haven't been heard, and/or because they feel decisions are being made that are not taking into account the reality of their profession. > lighting fires containing asbestos This sounds like nothing more than a dubious scaremongering claim to discredit whatever concern they are trying to air. It -might- be something that happened anecdotally and accidentally, but to describe it as something done deliberately while also putting their own health in danger requires quite a bit more proof than hearsay.
- Thiez 3y agoHere, a recent source: https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6300928/aangehouden-demonsterende-boeren-mogen-strafzaak-in-vrijheid-afwachten.html https://www.nu.nl/binnenland/6300928/aangehouden-demonsteren... It has happened regularly at farmer protests, so speculating that it might be accidental is absurd. They deliberately burn garbage containing asbestos. They are criminals that deserve to be behind bars.
- fransje26 3y agoCorrected, I stand. Straight to jail with the two of them.