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French Egg Producers Smash 300,000 Eggs and Demand Government Action to Raise Prices

- Mish - Global Economic Analysis

"... the European directive had forced him to spend about €2m on infrastructure adjustments for his business of 100,000 hens."
That is 20 Euros per chicken. Ain't democratic agricultural production in Europe just grand?

What you Norte Americaners best understand is the majority in NA are of European decent and subject to the same mass hysteria/hypnosis.
So ... coming to a farm near you sooner that you think.
You didn't think all those government-backed Ag loans, subsidies and programs came without bureaucratic strings attached, did you? The farmer doesn't really own the crop they produce. They really don't own the farm either.

Count me among those who understands the anger rising amongst the ag producers. Before you ridicule farmers, play in the game they've been forced to play and find out how ridiculous communitarianism is when it comes to production of tangibles. There is no opting out for the farmers other than to quit producing completely. Damn few have the courage/foolishness/assets to play "Atlas Shrugged".

I rated this as a 2. Your entire "Collective Insanity" section demonstrated just how little you understand about the Agriculture sector and how the bureaucratic/communitarian rabble has seized control by manipulating the Ag markets to artificially hold food prices down. Remember that "Arab Spring" event that was directly tied to food costs? If a government lets food prices rise too much, the natives will go on the warpath. There are plenty of foreign countries that will export food to the US to keep our food budget far lower than it ought to be in a free market. NAFTA and the plethora of other trade agreements ring a bell? Why do you suppose there is so much US government involvement in certain ag products that are heavily exported? Why can I buy Georgia peanuts cheaper overseas than in the US? Why is US sugar so high? Why, why, why? Because the government and communitarians, in a public/private partnership, seized control of agricultural production and marketing for our own good. It is easy to starve producers into compliance.

Perhaps that 2 was a bit generous.

To paraphrase Marie Antoinette, "Let the bureaucrats and communitarians eat cake."

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Beginning of the headline :Farmers in France are on an egg-smashing rampage in protest of low prices. Farmers in northwest France have vowed to escalate an egg-smashing rampage they began this week in protest at low prices and rising production across the EU. The protesters say a 2012 European directive, which obliges egg producers to improve the wellbeing of hens by increasing the size of their cages, has forced them to invest millions of euros to cover the upgrade. On Tuesday night masked members of the informal colle... Read More

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