More farmers , less politicians and their bureaucratic buildings and podiums.

Bravo for Irish man. Bravo for all farmers around Europe. Our farmers, our food , our land , our freedom . Get out the UE parliament and cheap imports form Ukraine

I as a American farmer .... I pray for the world right now

Im from Poland ❤ EU is blocking 4% of YOUR OWN LAND for 2 years. WHAT??? (Now 10%) We should all support farmers.

Support from Hungary! No Farm, No Food!💪🐄

I wish Al Jazeera would let them talk longer

We Must PROTECT FARMING

Farmers are the backbone of all nations🕊

~Praying for all farmers around the world... this is so sad.

No farmers no food

Even the Indian farmers are protesting for almost the same reasons... Seems like the whole political world is against the farmers... Hope good for the farmers across the world 🇮🇳🌾

No WEF

If you want to continue eating, then give the farmers a fare playing field

We all stand with the farmers!

Greens = WEF = money for me, not for you. You walk home and I`ll fly with my private jet

The funniest part was that the green guy from Strasbourg with a ring in one ear truly believes that his powers are justified by some natural laws that supersede most of the direct experience the farmers have in dealing with nature. That guy spends way too much time on his desk and in conference rooms. It should be required for the EU bureaucrats to work every year for a 1-2 months as farm hands, or as harvest helpers, for example, drive a harvester during the end of summer.

Basically most people are protesting. Unfortunately most don't have tractors.

Even the dog chased the Cop car away....

Let the city dwellers and politicians eat cake.

The problem in southern Portugal is that the water is being mismanaged, and is going to golf camps instead of farms.

It is very telling that the European policy analyst admits that competition from growers in Latin America are not held to the same standards as European growers but this is okay because it is "good" for the economy. If the goal is to stop climate change these imports should be banned. Taxes should be imposed based on the distance from producer to consumer to account for the environmental cost of transport. And VAT should be greatly reduced or emiminated on locally proced food. Helping local farmers to produce food sustainably is what is best for the local population. Perhaps the EU policy analysts should start looking at the environmental cost of the perptual war machine and focus efforts on diplomacy.

As usual who is in charge of making the regulations know nothing about what they are deciding about.

Greens policy is turning ridiculous in Europe. You can't push it too hard. In China, we do this step by step while there's still conflicts between groups and regions. The European policy would be a disaster in any region.

I agree with Mr. Fitzmaurice about meat imports. Here in the US, the meat industry is competing against Brazilian meat imports which are cheaper because of a weaker Brazilian currency while reports of BSE (mad cow disease) are not coming through fast enough sometimes (China temporarily embargoed their meat for a little while). We already import a lot of meat from Canada. I get tariffs are low or non-existent because there's high demand for low cost meat but shouldn't countries be protecting their own farmers first? We also have subsidies on most vegetables meant to keep them affordable for low-income families but if governments aren't going to adjust those subsidies while not addressing the higher energy costs, what do they expect farmers to do?

Good for you Irish guy, you make absolute sense, people better wake up to reality 😢farmers are experiencing death by a thousand cuts😢😢

We cannot allow the European Union to destroy small and medium-sized farmers. If this happens, we will have no choice in what we want to eat. Large industrial farms will feed us unhealthy food, or they will cut us off from food at all if we are politically disobedient. We will be subjugated and lose the remnants of freedom. All of us. Therefore, farmers' protests are in our interest and we must support them.

PEOPLE OVER POLITICS WE HAVE ALL HAD ENOUGH.

Never ever mess with the guy that makes your food.

Take a Serious Look at Ecocide No Farms No Gardens

A gazdáknak a legjobbakat mindenhol...Ők etetni minket!

It is important to note that the powers-that-be built a system and infrastructure that demands petroleum and petrochemical products. Capitalist markets push farmers to grow in size or get out -- more machinery, more land. This, when it has been shown that small family farms are the most productive. Regenerative farming increases productivity even more -- when nutrition and the long term wellbeing of the inhabitants, the land, and the planet are taken into account. Earth is largely a closed system, what you put out there gets everywhere. Producing food should, IMHO, be uncoupled from profit; it creates perverse incentives.Cheaper is not better

I am a lorry 🚚 driver picking up milk from farm to farm 🚜 in Ireland, i really support the farmers they are doing a great job,without them we are nothing,,South Africa

There was a farmer that won the lottery, asked what he would do with the money he said "Guess I will keep farming until the money's all gone". Small Farmers do need to adapt and diversify their income streams, farming alone isn't enough. Add solar energy production to crop fields, some plants like strawberries produce higher yields with partial shade. Farmers in west Texas have added Shrimp & Fish farms, seafood can be grown in large tanks almost anyplace. Bioreactors are easy to build to grow algae as protein source for human & livestock consumption, algae uses photosynthesis to convert CO2 & water into oxygen and carbohydrates (which algae uses as food), some algae types produce fuel oil. If anything, politicians might just create the incentive for farmers to ADAPT, those that can't adapt will die off.

Fight fight fight

Thank you grace x ue

Francisco don't have any idea what's going on in the world

Enviromental standards are absurd.

Farmers are allowed to protest in every way they can think of and they're never considered radical or violent. But, people who stand up for human rights or the environment are silenced and heavily critized. The commission could've given funds for the farmers to be more sustainable instead of simply scrapping the plan for a better future, but of course, Ursula von der Leyen couldn't care less about us, our environment and our health. All she cares about is the June election so she can stay in power.

Everyone should live free on the free land!

I say we need more farmers than politicians.

According to the BBC, the farmers are protesting because our tory government signed trade agreements with countries outside the EU ! 😂😅

yea let free markets control food and water. what could possibly go wrong 😅

In south Portugal the problem is, turism, they use many water on golf fields, swiming pools. They lack water dams. It is not climate Change.

That dog is a fierce protester!

If polish farmer hate so much EU, then why they take billion of euros from EU?

Why isn't the government investing in alternatives for pesticides and chemicals?

FREE PALESTINE!!!!

The Europen Union idiotic politician's should be blame for the situation in the EU they spend famers money to Ukrine war to please uncle Sam.

If I see one more politician bleating on about Climate Change I swear I'll lose my religion.

Francesco is nuts!

Instead of throwing away money in weapons, fund clean local farming. It's not so hard.

EU should keep their standards and ban everything that is below that standard. Also pull all the subsidies because there is a market that can support this.. People need and want to eat. If you want to eat garbage, everyone in the EU can poisen their own food to meet their lower standard.. People are educated in ways that they can't even live without a supermarket or restaurant to get fed.. The problem is so much bigger then what is discussed here. It's a waste of time to watch this video.. Become less educated and more wise.

Interviewer cuts off the guts of it

why not ?

Why doesn't KZfaq send me these videos when I have subscribed to all?????

Hi from Norway 😊.

Putin called this literally word to word 😂

Food should be grown for free all over fertile Earth! Free food everywhere!

Big superannuation fund are buying up prime land here in Australia.. and climate policy is taking up land for wind farms ..and solar .. this is how we have food shortages not because of climate change..

You should not increase the cost of local farming for environmental improvement, yet allow low cost food from abroad. Eliminating pesticides is a good idea but the farmers should be compensated for lower yields.

Of course VDL will pprobably be greatly assisted in her re election as there probably will only be her on the ballot. AGAIN! Don't you just love EU democracy!

Kisaan Ekta zindabad. No farmers no food.

What is the difference between a farm corporation and a farmer?

Did you forget to invite the adults to this discussing? Oye 🙄 Great topic to address, i found it interesting over here in Canada. Our small farms are all being absorbed by big boys.

The Tamil Philosophical literature Thirukural says - உழுதுண்டு வாழ்வாரே வாழ்வார் மற்றெல்லாம் தொழுதுண்டு பின்செல் பவர். They only live who live by the plough. The rest must stoop and trail behind eating what they give.

Bruh that dog in the beginning was almost meat 😢

EU is doing a spread: on the one hand trying to implement environment legislation and on the other hand supporting agriculture (agrindustry) that is the most productive, as the market is becoming dominated by US and BRICS. Selfsufficiency of Europe is asking too much, but yes, we need future access to staple food and energy. So we need at least enough own production to be able to barter with our core business - industry. This can be done IF farmers are getting paid for what they produce: much when grown sustainable and less when grown industrially. EU should be Adam Smith's 'market master' and dress up a price system. They don't now because of agribusiness lobby and confusion/dividedness.

I cannot believe the woman at the beginning claiming that as farmers they take care of the soil and animals, provide food, and take care of our health while objecting to environmental safeguards. I do not see that it is beneficial for my health for more pesticides to be used or continued reliance on methods that harm the soil, air, water, and animals - including us. I realize this is not the only concern of the farmers, and I think farmers should be supported by the governments to deal with all of these issues: and neither the farmers nor the people should bear the brunt of EU - and US - support for the stupid war in Ukraine. What will be the consequences to all of us of denying reality and refusing to change? BTW: a) there is no such thing as free trade; and, b) I do not always support the Greens. Get over it.

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Fransesko: how is eu demokratic?

if more farmers in there own countries around the world would be row crop farmers and growing more food for people instead of millions of land to grow corn for biofuel the world would be all right

boss sake

They have seen how well we are doing outside of the twenty seven ,and would like some of it. Our farmers are simply aremoaning,

EU just tired of eating food.

What is the dog protesting?

Farming from the start need funding and due to natural disaster and climate change it hit hard on the farmers now that they have competition from outside it's worse

Protectionism may be backfire when normal citizens have to pay higher prices for products. Protectionism causes inflation.

Francisco talks and doesn't listen. He is a liar.

Looks like the good times are really over world wide . Reminds me of a Merle Haggard song , the good times are really over .

Food prices are high enough in Europe, esp. when wages, esp. in Southern Europe, are low. If they give into their demands on trade they sould end the subsidies and also require all farms to pay the national minimum wages! Moreover, subsidies should only be used for transitions, expansions, repairs, & only for small farmers, not agribusinesses.

Wealthy people are criminals!

I think it is much better for EU to be disbanded because of political conflicts and economical differences. Many European nations are suffering greatly due to the oil sanction on Russia.

I love how in the first 5 min he brings up how maybe these people are lobbyists lol nah bro theyre just angry farmers

Leave EU. They set their standards too high but also doing double standards every where

We don't want any more Food Masters!!!

The Italian and Dutch intterviewees are being very disingenuous in their arguments. They contend their countries don't have a say. They do, but the democratic process makes it so that they don't always get what they want. Shame on those two representatives.

Yes too many acronyms by far.😅

War !

This Irish farmer is brilliant. Green mp gets the thumbs down from me. We NEED small farms growing good food. Maybe the green mp should do some research and look deeply at un, and wef websites. He’s the one giving misinformation.

If you cannot compete on the open market, you shouldn't be in that business.

Id recommend for all of you concerned about nature preservation, climate change and food security to try farming. Just for your own needs. It will teach you a whole lot and give you a understanding of life. Take wolfs for example. If id live in a city, sure wolfs are cool, why would you want to limit where they roam? Live in the country side and raise sheep and you will see it quite a bit different. The thing is its not a one or the other. The thing is you get a perspective when farming that its a matter of balance. I grow sheep, does it create greenhouse gases, apparently but it also conserves and maintaines local ecosystems that have developed for thousands of years in tandem with animal husbandry. Do i kill and cause suffering to animals. Yes but, i also allow them to live a fulfilling sheeps life where they get to express their sheepness to the full. And safety, you dont want to come to the barn or meadow to find 10 savaged and badly injured sheep and having to put the down. But thats what wolfs do. I have nothing against wolfs. But common sense states that you have to limit where they roam. Just like Ursula wonderlion had to experience first hand, sadly. All im saying is get perspective.

Are these the farmers for Zimbabwe? They received 3 billion in relocation payments this should have been spread around who is in charge of the money?

India Farmer protest is back again as well.

well give me back my shares you stolled and every thing goes away cubic farms

I'm down with protecting farmers, but I'm more down with sustainable agriculture because with climate change we need regenerative practices. I don't understand why they are complaining about climate issues but also complaining about not wanting to do the things that will help. It's the whole capitalist system not green policies. No one should be protesting over not being able to use pesticides they are toxic. Can't complain about climate change and show up with tons of tractors..sounds like right wing stuff. Even pope is against populism

The green party sucks the big one.

Ukraine buys oil from Russia 😂

Stop feeding the poor.

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It’s hard to sympathize with farmer’s incomes when Palestinian children are dying.