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SURVIVAL LILLY
https://youtu.be/mWSXX8q5YBQ
VIDEO INTRO: I would like to inform you about some very disturbing news. Today's story is going to be about food security in Europe, which is threatened by wars, prices, and the European Union.
Austria's farmers are sounding the alarm. The Austrian Chamber of Agriculture is currently meeting. and the topic is the tense political global situation, which is putting increasing pressure on farming.
The presidents of the Austrian Agriculture Chambers are protesting against a possible EU subsidy cut and warning of further farm closures. The current global political crisis is a key factor in this. The Chamber of Agriculture reports that Polish cattle farmers are supplying less meat to Iran.
Now, as a result, more beef remains in the EU, driving prices down considerably. As a consumer, I haven't observed a drop in prices in meat yet, but maybe the farmer is getting less. But it's not only just beef that farmers are under pressure from.
They are also currently receiving less money for milk and pork than they actually need. At the same time, the costs for energy and fertilizer continue to rise and also gas for the tractor. Rising costs and falling prices. Although farmers' incomes rose last year, the president of the chamber is saying that farmers are in a tense situation. It has never been like this before because we suddenly have such pressure from all areas.
The Austrian's top farmers' representative is saying that we expect another hot summer, and this is challenging on all levels. In addition to the hot summer, which is resulting in yield losses, there are also numerous crises and war zones around the world making the situation even worse. These changes would affect individual farms and lead to massive cost increases.
While the prices that the farmer gets for the food are still remaining at the same or even falling, the farmers are also far from satisfied with the EU agricultural policy. He feels that farmers could receive up to 20% less money from Brussels in the future. So these subsidies are really important for farmers; otherwise, they could not exist anymore.
Because with the opening of the European Union, a lot of the market got flooded with cheaper food from countries where they have different levels of wages and where they have different protections for the workers. They can produce much cheaper, and of course this is getting on the market here, and this is threatening the existence of our native farmers...
Food crisis unfolding in Europe ... https://youtu.be/mWSXX8q5YBQ
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/mWSXX8q5YBQ
SURVIVAL LILLY
https://youtu.be/mWSXX8q5YBQ
VIDEO INTRO: I would like to inform you about some very disturbing news. Today's story is going to be about food security in Europe, which is threatened by wars, prices, and the European Union.
Austria's farmers are sounding the alarm. The Austrian Chamber of Agriculture is currently meeting. and the topic is the tense political global situation, which is putting increasing pressure on farming.
The presidents of the Austrian Agriculture Chambers are protesting against a possible EU subsidy cut and warning of further farm closures. The current global political crisis is a key factor in this. The Chamber of Agriculture reports that Polish cattle farmers are supplying less meat to Iran.
Now, as a result, more beef remains in the EU, driving prices down considerably. As a consumer, I haven't observed a drop in prices in meat yet, but maybe the farmer is getting less. But it's not only just beef that farmers are under pressure from.
They are also currently receiving less money for milk and pork than they actually need. At the same time, the costs for energy and fertilizer continue to rise and also gas for the tractor. Rising costs and falling prices. Although farmers' incomes rose last year, the president of the chamber is saying that farmers are in a tense situation. It has never been like this before because we suddenly have such pressure from all areas.
The Austrian's top farmers' representative is saying that we expect another hot summer, and this is challenging on all levels. In addition to the hot summer, which is resulting in yield losses, there are also numerous crises and war zones around the world making the situation even worse. These changes would affect individual farms and lead to massive cost increases.
While the prices that the farmer gets for the food are still remaining at the same or even falling, the farmers are also far from satisfied with the EU agricultural policy. He feels that farmers could receive up to 20% less money from Brussels in the future. So these subsidies are really important for farmers; otherwise, they could not exist anymore.
Because with the opening of the European Union, a lot of the market got flooded with cheaper food from countries where they have different levels of wages and where they have different protections for the workers. They can produce much cheaper, and of course this is getting on the market here, and this is threatening the existence of our native farmers...
Food crisis unfolding in Europe ... https://youtu.be/mWSXX8q5YBQ