Farmers feeling pain and frustration head to Dublin to protest.~cr
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Farmers shut down busy parts of central Dublin for a second successive day on Wednesday by parking dozens of tractors in the streets to protest against low beef prices and climate change initiatives they say are unfair.
The farmers arrived on tractors from all over the country on Tuesday for a planned protest in a cordoned off area but instead parked their vehicles in the very center of the city and refused to leave until the agriculture minister met them.
Some slept in their vehicles overnight, many parked outside the luxury Shelbourne Hotel on the corner of St. Stephen’s Green, one of the main bus routes into the city.
Police warned commuters that a number of the city’s main thoroughfares, including Kildare Street, the seat of parliament, were closed to traffic. The city’s bus operator told passengers to expect delays on all routes.
The grievances are clear and they made them known
“It’s the only thing we can do, we’re gone if we don’t do this. We can’t stay producing food below the cost of production and we can’t keep getting blamed for climate change. This is about the death of rural Ireland, it’s dying on its feet as we speak.”
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Some of the farmers protesting on Wednesday also complained about climate change measures, including plans for carbon tax increases. Hughes said sentiment on the issue in Ireland amounted to “nothing but farmer bashing”.
Agriculture Minister Michael Creed said he met demonstrators on the street and in his office, and he hoped that could clear the blockage in the city. Protesters said they wanted him to sit down with a delegation from the group.
HT/Willie Soon
Maybe the Irish farmers would benefit from establishing a group like “Farmers Defense Force”, which was established in The Netherlands, after it took the police 10 hours to get animal rights activists out of the stables on a pig farm.
The Protests aren’t limited to Ireland. They are also in France. The key is “Newsflash: By Allowing the Government To Control the Food, Energy and Healthcare Sector, the Government Owns the Individual. There Is A Reason The Progressives Target These Critical Industries, They Want To Own The Individual.”
French Farmers Descend On Paris In Fresh Revolt Against Globalist Regulations; I’m Beginning to Notice a Pattern
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/french-farmers-descend-on-paris-in-fresh-revolt-against-globalist-regulations-im-beginning-to-notice-a-pattern/
Farmers bring central Dublin to a halt with tractor protest
https://co2islife.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/farmers-bring-central-dublin-to-a-halt-with-tractor-protest/
Absolutely. Correct. Spot on.
This sort of thing usually does not end well for those who wish t bring about this level of control.
XR is a great name, can we accelerate their feared outcome and very especially be totally clear on the outcome for them.
Maybe millions will die of starvation in 10 years…but for the opposite reasons that XR and the Greta fawns are yelling about. Oh those unintended consequences….
I ask myself: who is controlling the media (msm). Lies, warped information all of which seems ok with politicians!
What are politicians? Me,me,me etc. To hell with the public to whom we owe our position to honour.
Why do people think it’s is going to take so long for civil,unrest, already here. Just needs a leader who will come.
Our News paper group here in New Zealand STUFF publishes many daily news papers around the country.
They announced yesterday that they are pulling out all stops and going full retard on climate change.
I wonder how history will judge this period of time when the world went crazy with no proof that the weather that we are enjoying is caused by CO2.
Is it the madness of crowds,if you do not conform with the consensus and has no one learnt any thing from history .
The Medieval Warm Period and the little Ice Age .
These events are dismissed as though they never occurred.
People in cities have become very isolated from farming and have little idea how food is processed and gets to the supermarkets.
Here in NZ farmers are receiving good prices for meat because China has lost most of their pigs to African swine fever and they need protein so are paying great prices for old ewes and bulls .
The population of the world is still increasing and is projected to pass 9 Billion by 2050.
I wonder if people in high places are deliberately trying to disrupt the worlds food supplies by introducing and including biogenic methane emissions from farm live stock .
It is an attack on food producers for no reason that I can see as Methane from livestock does not add ONE ATOM of CARBON into the atmosphere .
All forage that farmed animals consume has absorbed CO2 from the air and during digestion a small amount of methane is emitted which is broken down into CO2 and water vapour in around 10 years
I have farmed all my life and I still are involved and have family on the farm.
Here in New Zealand our climate is reasonably mild because we are surrounded by the ocean .
Our farmers export food to feed over 40 million people around the world and we earn most of our foreign exchange that the country needs .
We have a very unsympathetic government as they are in a coalition agreements with the greens who are clearly anti farming and introducing Zero Carbon Bills .
Farmers have already driven tractors to Parliament to protest the fact that pine trees are being planted on good farm land and small towns are declining as far less people are involved with trees than farming .
AND YOU CAN’T EAT TREES
Graham Anderson
Proud to be a farmer helping feed the world
Stuff used to be balanced about 20 years ago.
Or so it seemed. Might be worthy of a review to see if tricks were done.
commieBob
I read the link to Conrad Black’s article. Everyone here should have a look.
The Irish farmers protest was solely a anti-trade protest. Nothing to do with climate, everything to do with stifling competition.
They are no allies to the climate realist movement.
Some of the farmers protesting on Wednesday also complained about climate change measures
While most of the protest is economic, the economics they are protesting are largely the result of misguided “climate change” policies that greatly affect the rural farmers (while, often having little to no effect on the urban city dwellers).