Farmers need to realize we are in a climate crisis and the good life of the 80s and 90s ain’t coming back unless a miracle happens. Maybe in 2200, when we will have found a solution to not only stop but actively reverse/stabilize climate change, then we can talk about it.
is there really that much farming in malta anyways? would’ve assumed not much due to their tiny size
Damn, if only we knew why
Nothing new. The most subsidized profession of Europe complaining again..
What is it with farmers?
How much farm land even is in Malta?
Malta has farms? 😲
Probably protesting that they can’t pollute completely crazily anymore. Only pollute a lot.
Good for them and shame on the elites for trying to destroy our food supply.
The Onion headline, haha
Farmers have nothing to do in winter
“There are dozens of us! Dozens!”
Farmers when you tell them they can’t dump poison into the water supply
They want there to be more land to farm on Malta
and what is ‚some reason‘? maybe add more context?
Nice tractors!
monaco & liechtenstein should jump in too
That’s a lotta Lamborghini’s
Use of the island as a money laundering hub???
Malta has farms?!
Since fückin’ when?
You guys are talking like the products EU imports do not follow the same rules. Of course, it might be easier to do fraud or circumvent them in the process of importation, but this is a problem of fiscalization, not rules only existing for european farmers. The problem is that European farmers are producing in Euro and selling in Euro, one of the most expensive currencies in the world. If a farmer somewhere else produces in a currency 10 times weaker than the Euro, they will incur massive profits selling in euros even if severely undercutting the european produced products. This also means that european farmers can only realistically sell in the internal market or other countries with some currency parity, like the UK or the US.
The whole issue with the EU – MERCOSUL deal for example is precisely that the south american farmers would sell way cheaper than the european farmers under free trade. The south american farmers already adhere to EU regulations, it is no wonder that they sell you guys the best produce they can make and internally, sell the scraps you would not accept.
Either the EU further especialize their farmers, so that they can produce luxury crops or they keep the protectionism policies to keep your farmers competitive. Saying that the farmers in Europe somehow are suffering under rules meant for enviromental protection and food safety while the rest of the world isn’t, is completely missing the point of the problem. If that is really happening in a large enough scale, then invest in fiscalization and either deny or tax the products that do not comply.
What’s the reason
I’m surprised Malta has farmers
You just have to watch clarkson’s farm if you want to get an idea how hard gamers work for such little pay.
Supermarkets make much more money than farmers
You guys don’t realize, they’re protesting because there isn’t much farming land in Malta. Because of that, there aren’t that many farmers, so their votes don’t really matter to politicians, so they don’t care about them, so the farmers protest.
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https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/farmers-gather-second-protest-two-weeks.1084000
Farmers need to realize we are in a climate crisis and the good life of the 80s and 90s ain’t coming back unless a miracle happens. Maybe in 2200, when we will have found a solution to not only stop but actively reverse/stabilize climate change, then we can talk about it.
is there really that much farming in malta anyways? would’ve assumed not much due to their tiny size
Damn, if only we knew why
Nothing new. The most subsidized profession of Europe complaining again..
What is it with farmers?
How much farm land even is in Malta?
Malta has farms? 😲
Probably protesting that they can’t pollute completely crazily anymore. Only pollute a lot.
Good for them and shame on the elites for trying to destroy our food supply.
The Onion headline, haha
Farmers have nothing to do in winter
“There are dozens of us! Dozens!”
Farmers when you tell them they can’t dump poison into the water supply
They want there to be more land to farm on Malta
and what is ‚some reason‘? maybe add more context?
Nice tractors!
monaco & liechtenstein should jump in too
That’s a lotta Lamborghini’s
Use of the island as a money laundering hub???
Malta has farms?!
Since fückin’ when?
You guys are talking like the products EU imports do not follow the same rules. Of course, it might be easier to do fraud or circumvent them in the process of importation, but this is a problem of fiscalization, not rules only existing for european farmers. The problem is that European farmers are producing in Euro and selling in Euro, one of the most expensive currencies in the world. If a farmer somewhere else produces in a currency 10 times weaker than the Euro, they will incur massive profits selling in euros even if severely undercutting the european produced products. This also means that european farmers can only realistically sell in the internal market or other countries with some currency parity, like the UK or the US.
The whole issue with the EU – MERCOSUL deal for example is precisely that the south american farmers would sell way cheaper than the european farmers under free trade. The south american farmers already adhere to EU regulations, it is no wonder that they sell you guys the best produce they can make and internally, sell the scraps you would not accept.
Either the EU further especialize their farmers, so that they can produce luxury crops or they keep the protectionism policies to keep your farmers competitive. Saying that the farmers in Europe somehow are suffering under rules meant for enviromental protection and food safety while the rest of the world isn’t, is completely missing the point of the problem. If that is really happening in a large enough scale, then invest in fiscalization and either deny or tax the products that do not comply.
What’s the reason
I’m surprised Malta has farmers
You just have to watch clarkson’s farm if you want to get an idea how hard gamers work for such little pay.
Supermarkets make much more money than farmers
You guys don’t realize, they’re protesting because there isn’t much farming land in Malta. Because of that, there aren’t that many farmers, so their votes don’t really matter to politicians, so they don’t care about them, so the farmers protest.
Massey Ferguson on the front line ✊🏻
Have they run out of birds to shoot?