Milk Burn
There is something which almost looks artificial (or even slightly Photoshopped) about this picture – I don’t really want to explain it or put it in context but lets be honest, if your gonna riot this is perhaps the best way.
In Brussels this week angry European dairy farmers ‘rioted’ over low prices for their milk, this did also include pouring milk on the streets, (Cat’s must have loved it) hurling eggs at Police and other non identified objects (fence post anyone?)
This was in return to the ‘emergency meeting’ which agriculture ministers attended in an attempt to sort the issue out for the farmers, the sting was that all the meeting achieved was the introduction of a ‘committee to produce a report‘ for the EU in 2010, June to be precise.
There’s a very serious crisis in the milk sector. We didn’t take any decisions today, but we identified areas where the future policy needs to concentrate on
Said Eskil Erlandsson who headed up Mondays meeting.
Get this for perhaps the coolest organisation ever – The European Milk Board, have said that more then a 1,000 tractors and 5,000 people took part on behalf over more then 80,000 affected dairy farmers.
The group said milk prices are below 75 percent of production costs. Another European farm union organization, Copa-Cogeca, says that milk prices have plummeted 30 percent in a year and that dairy producers will lose up to 14 billion euros before the end of the year if nothing is done.
