Going by social media reactions, I’m seeing these street-blocking protests getting praises from both people on the left and the right. I’m trying to decipher what I can by translating French articles on the matter but I’m still not entirely sure what the ideology behind this protest is.
I mean, going against a colonialist government is always based, but I’d feel a little icky supporting the movement if it’s chuds throwing a tantrum that they’re forced to pay their workers living wages, or can’t dump pigshit into waterways or something.
They want to add subsidies to offset skyrocketing costs of production, climate change restrictions on land/input usage, and the ability of imported/industrial agriculture to undercut the prices that unionised smallholder farmers have to charge. It’s an anti-globalisation/anti-free trade/pro-union protest more than anything. Like India they’re one of those countries where there’s an epidemic of farmer suicides because of how much debt they’re forced to go into just to do a job they can’t make a living off of.
Awesome thanks for the explanation