“So we’re cool now, guys, right? No more messy, unfortunate, noisy demonstrations?” isn’t the bigger story today the target for 90% cuts in emissions by 2040? While I agree on the edges you have green measures that are being scaled back, the direction of travel remains amazingly ambitious. I think “rolling back” is a bit […]
BOUSSY-SAINT-ANTOINE, France — Truck driver Jeremy Donf understands French farmers are struggling and he wants to support local food producers. But like many consumers, buying French produced food isn’t always an option. Farmer protests across Europe this week have highlighted how farmers and households are both hurting these days because of multiple factors, including persistent […]
As to the climate cultists, if they were planning on going anywhere near Brussels today, it might be a better idea to stay put. The figurative sacrificial chickens for your cult haven’t come home to roost on the streets surrounding the European Parliament building – the literal ones have. European farmers began descending on the […]
PARIS — France’s two major farmers unions announced they would lift country-wide blockades Thursday, shortly after the prime minister introduced new measures aimed at protecting their livelihoods that they described as “tangible progress.” However, farmer activists who have snarled traffic along major highways around Paris said they would stay put at least another day to […]
PARIS — Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales. The farmers say their protests aren’t a moment too soon. Grievances have long been brewing in the European Union‘s leading agricultural power. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused painful economic […]
Food is an essential human need that requires ongoing production in the modern world. Agriculture — organized food production — represented the first vital steps toward human civilization, making possible permanent settlements and specialized trades, enabling culture to flourish. And it will be humanity’s last steps — without food production, we would descend into anarchy. […]
Truckers, farmers, construction workers, and others have had it with Klaus Schwab and his cow-killing, insect-cookin’ klymatt chainje codswallop. FACT-O-RAMA! I have to purposefully misspell klymatt chainje so that the cloud-hugging flunkies in the mainstream you-know-what will not demonetize this article. The worldwide plan to monitor, censor, and enslave us has begun. This, as they […]
MIDDLESEX, Vt. — Since catastrophic flooding hit Vermont in July and waterlogged crops, some farmers are trying to figure out how to get through the next season. Water washed away seeds planted in the summer at Bear Roots Farm, which grows about 20 acres (8 hectares) of mostly root vegetables at a high altitude. Farmers […]
PARIS — Spreading demonstrations by French farmers against low wages and other grievances were hit by tragedy Tuesday when a woman was killed and her husband and daughter injured in a traffic collision at a protest barricade. A car plowed into straw bales that demonstrators had placed across a road, hitting the three people before […]
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