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Farmers’ protests here as well? – There is no tomorrow! Stop the EU, now or never!An emotional appeal from agriculture: Why Mercosur, cheap imports, and political inaction are threatening the existence of family farms – and why there is no tomorrow anymore. Anthony Lee: In the middle of the month, the European Union will vote on whether to ratify the Mercosur agreement. That is the agreement with South America, which would then mean that all food products may be imported here duty-free that do not even remotely meet our standards. I’ve been saying this for years. We’ve all been saying this for years. But apparently politics doesn’t care, and neither do citizens, because morality ends at the supermarket shelf and the main thing is to have something cheap to shove down your throat. That is, unfortunately, the naked truth. And unfortunately, we also have associations that apparently don’t give a damn whether their paying members go down the drain or not. And I am sick and tired of always hearing: Let’s do it tomorrow! There is no tomorrow.
Farmer Arne: All my professional colleagues and I wanted to ask how great the desperation is, the resignation. Do we want to do nothing anymore, do we seriously want to give up now, give in to Mercosur, accept all these imports? Grain – Ukraine, eggs – Ukraine, meat from Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, sugar from sugarcane. We know exactly what that means: sugar factories, prices no longer add up. We are supposed to reduce cultivated land by 10%. Milk is at 32 cents, grain prices have been stagnating for a long time, and potato farmers are also under pressure. Do we really want to just accept all of this? Vegetable growers can’t go on either because of cheap imports. We now need political will to even want German agriculture to continue to exist. We are completely interchangeable. Germany is such a small country on the globe, and the flow of goods just keeps moving. And if it is not politically or socially desired, then we’re finished here in Germany. We can still defend ourselves one more time. We can say: starting January 8, over a longer period and with staying power, we will take action and extend it until January 12. On January 12, the Mercosur vote takes place – basically exactly seven days from now. We still have the chance to do this. We must show stamina. And we may have to turn the country upside down a bit. Nothing bad has to happen, but first we have to show presence, that we are still here. Many sectors have problems. Maybe others will join and say: hey, they’re out there, now we’ll do something too. Other professions are also under pressure. It doesn’t look good. And when agriculture disappears, agricultural technology disappears too, and everything connected to it. Fertilizer plants are closing. We can no longer fertilize sufficiently and become completely dependent on foreign countries. We are constantly being told that the world market is full, that there is so much available. Hunger in the world should have been eliminated long ago, shouldn’t it? Is that really the case? Are people really no longer starving? We are being fooled into believing there is abundance everywhere. But everything depends on transport routes. And if something goes wrong there, if infrastructure is destroyed or supply chains are interrupted, then nothing works here anymore. Anthony Lee: Brief interjection, Arne. Biogas plants in Germany could replace 20% of total German gas consumption. But that no longer matters now, because it wasn’t considered at all. Even though they don’t just produce electricity, heat, and gas – which, if you ask people in Berlin, isn’t exactly unimportant. They simply don’t want it. Arne: And every farm that shuts down will never reopen. An appeal to my colleagues: we all have to take part. It doesn’t look like anything will improve in the foreseeable future. Anthony Lee: The worst part is: my friend Arne is absolutely right. He even forgot the winemakers. German winegrowing will probably no longer exist at all. I remember a video clip of Wolf Matthias Mang: “We have to be careful not to become an industrial museum between the USA and Asia, where tourists from all over the world come. Yes, we are green and poor, but we are sexy because we have Rieslings and castle ruins.” We might still have the castle ruins for a while, but not the Riesling anymore. Doesn’t matter, that’s replaceable too. And I know there are colleagues who are actually making money right now. Anyone looking at cattle or poultry is currently happy about cheap grain. Not everyone, but some. But you have to understand this: even if you are making money now – a year ago it was completely different. Back then, other sectors were making good money and you weren’t. This keeps changing. Coincidence? Conspiracy theory? Whatever. If arable farmers are no longer around and feed for your animals has to come from elsewhere, it will inevitably become more expensive. Or is that illogical? Hardly. Am I afraid of the future? Yes, absolutely. Is it bad to be afraid? No. Much worse is when I am old and frail one day, lying in bed, everything has gone down the drain, and I bite myself in the ass – if I still can – because I did nothing. And that applies to everyone in this country, to everyone in the European Union. We see that colleagues in France are rising up. I assume the Poles will rise up as well. Maybe the Italians too, although Italy has announced it will agree. Let’s see what Italian colleagues will do then. You won’t see this in the media. You also didn’t see that Greek farmers were on the streets for weeks and shut down the airport on Crete. You’re not supposed to see that. I find that pathetic. No, I actually find it antisocial and disgraceful when people keep saying: politics will sort it out. And then they go back to the ballot box and vote for the same crap that made this situation happen in the first place. I stopped going along with this a long time ago. And you should slowly start asking yourselves: how much longer are you going to go along with it? Author: AI-Translation - Redaktion | |
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