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Spraying manure and throwing beets, farmers in tractors again block Brussels to protest EU policies
AP ^ | 3/26/24 | RAF CASERT and MARK CARLSON

Posted on 03/26/2024 12:33:26 PM PDT by DallasBiff

BRUSSELS (AP) — Farmers threw beets, sprayed manure at police and set hay alight on Tuesday as hundreds of tractors again sealed off streets close to the European Union headquarters, where agriculture ministers sought to ease a crisis that has led to months of protests across the

The farmers protested what they see as excessive red tape and unfair trading practices as well as increased environmental measures and cheap imports from Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: agriculture; eu; europe; farmers; protest

Oh my, cowpies thrown in the faces of those who want us to eat bugs.

1 posted on 03/26/2024 12:33:26 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Spraying manure slurry is a nice touch.


2 posted on 03/26/2024 12:36:44 PM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: DallasBiff

The farmers should pump that liquified manure into the EU headquarters buildings until it spills out of the topmost windows.


3 posted on 03/26/2024 12:37:09 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: DallasBiff

“… agriculture ministers sought to ease a crisis”

LOL…the EU / WEF people are stealing farms everywhere, forcing production cuts, throwing farmers out of work, curtailing fertilizer use, artificially raising fossil fuel prices (BIG fossil energy in ag), telling us to eat less, and to devour big protein.

I wonder how this “crisis” started? There was no “crisis” when EU and WEF stayed in their lane, but, no, tyrants gotta be tyrannical.


4 posted on 03/26/2024 12:40:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: billorites

5 posted on 03/26/2024 12:46:45 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Charles Martel

This is the way.


6 posted on 03/26/2024 12:52:54 PM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Centralize and control agriculture production said Joe Stalin.


7 posted on 03/26/2024 12:59:09 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: DallasBiff

Why beets? They should be throwing brussellsprouts.


8 posted on 03/26/2024 12:59:12 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: DallasBiff

Belgium is a nice looking country but those people can’t drive worth a darn. Luxembourg looks more like a Country Club than a country, amazing. I think it still has the highest per-capita income, which I assume is due to it being a world banking center.
I was in Luxembourg City on New Year’s Eve in a huge crowd and it felt perfectly safe, no misbehavior at all, just thousands of happy people. Tiny Luxembourg also has over 300 monuments to Allied soldiers, by the way. I was present for color guard ceremonies at some. Watched old men and women crying over American soldiers, unforgettable.


9 posted on 03/26/2024 1:06:03 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: Bonemaker

THAT looks much more efficient than the manure spreader I grew up with.


10 posted on 03/26/2024 1:30:11 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: DallasBiff

this could be a fantastic opportunity to get rid of Brussel Sprouts


11 posted on 03/26/2024 2:31:49 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

I’ll eat them, with some butter over them...Yummy!


12 posted on 03/26/2024 2:32:50 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Go Farmers!


13 posted on 03/26/2024 2:33:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Patton is buried in Luxembourg.


14 posted on 03/26/2024 2:35:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Well then instead of brussel sprouts they could use fresh choice’s rock- hard avacados as artillery shells


15 posted on 03/26/2024 3:34:14 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: billorites

They had thought they had won earlier but they hadn’t. The Euro Fascists wanted to reduce fertilizer use by 50% but relented after the protests. However, they contacted the Obama/Biden Fascist government and had them reduce the amount of LNG being shipped to Europe which is used to make fertilizer. So fertilizer will be reduced by 50% because the US fascists have stopped LNG.


16 posted on 03/26/2024 5:19:29 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: dfwgator

“Patton is buried in Luxembourg.”

Yes, along with 5 or 7 thousand others, can’t remember. Attended a ceremony there for American veterans, his granddaughter was there, she laid a wreath on his grave and then we (My dad and I) attended a dinner and she spoke and interacted with the vets there, giving them all the “card” that Patton had given out with a copy of the prayer he
credited with stopping the rain so the Allies could advance. My dad still had his card, showed it to her and she was shocked to see it.


17 posted on 03/27/2024 6:57:31 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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