Comments by "Aaron Okeanos" (@AaronOkeanos) on "German farmers strike: A sign of wider dissatisfaction? | DW News" video.

Brits are not known to protest easily but I seen similar arguments and discontent before Brexit. And almost all agricultural sectors voted for Brexit and now regretted it because the problems are not caused by the EU or even governments the problem is the food industry itself. It's monopolized and centralized and the money farmers get no longer reflects the work involved. It's not even a problem of the price for the consumers but the sharing of the profits is unfair because most is skimmed of by the corporations to enrich shareholders not farmers. Consumer are unhappy about high prices and farmer about bad revenue so someone has to syphon off the wealth in the middle.
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There is no other way to maintain regional food production. Without the external tariffs and subsidies to farmer enforced by the EU the markets would be swamped with low-cost low-quality mass-produced stuff from America, Australia and South-America. We would get dependent on trade routes and prone to weather disasters and political conflicts or even simple ship havaries in cannels.
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@ernstschwaig4667 Of course they need subsidies. Having regional food production is essential or you get a critical dependency to trade routes (see ship blockades or the canal havaries recently) with life-threatening consequences. And to be able to compete with the mass-producers who gives a damn about monocultures and environmental protection. Those who will be affected by climate change first. If we are not careful we going into a disaster only 2nd to Mao's policies in the 60/70ties.
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Food is different. You can survive without a Tesla but not without food.
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@Wolfcamp555 Insurances already refuse to insure houses in Florida for high risk of storms. How long do you think insurances are willing to insure farmers? And even if. It is another cost which further reduces your income and/or raises prices and just feeding another middleman.
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@axelvetter The EU is a little bigger than New Zealand. Can you break it down to "per farmer/field/ton of food" to define "too much"? And I noticed the imports from the US to New Zealand risen to almost a billion. Exactly what I was describing.
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@sncy5303 Simple reason: Europe has not the free spaces you have in America or Australia to do mega-farming. The country is much denser populated and developed you stumble over a street constantly.
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@matheusferrao When you can pass the sanitary and phytosanitary checks by the EU border and adhere to EU regulations and rules probably not. But once this is not checked anymore quality instantly plummets. Need proof? Watch the UK these days.
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Tell Putin to return to Russia, give all invaded territories back and retire. The sooner this happens the sooner money can be used for other purposes.
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I hate to break it to you but without EU subsidies for farmers the situation would be far far worse. Ask British farmers about it they feel the consequences right now.
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@turquoiseowl For British farmers it is too late. For what would they protest? Rejoin the EU? ^^
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@JoshuaStringfellow1 The US is using subsidies not to self-protect but to enrich wealthy donors with stocks in the food industry. The money is used to pump out cheaper products for export, to make profits and to be able to use this lever for political influence. It is clearly misused there.
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Not everything but almost all protests are undermined by right-wing groups for a couple years to spread anger, hate, division and discontent because it is bringing right-wing parties and movements more votes.
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Almost ironic they stop the traffic which is using the Biofuel they pretend this protest is about (end of the subsidies for biofuel).
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@subject_7 Yeah I know. The abusers excuse "they made me do it." Sorry but this doesn't wash anymore.
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@subject_7 No because it is not correct english you using.
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