Why French farmers are up in arms: fuel hikes, green regulation, EU directives
Briefly

"It is not insignificant that this [the protest movement] comes from the south of the country," said Francois Purseigle, a sociology professor at the French agronomy faculty of the Toulouse Institute of Technology.
Many young people today prefer to avoid self-employment because they would earn less than a farm employee, and this should not be the case, said Yohann Barbe, a cattle farmer in the Vosges department in northeastern France.
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