Comments on: Photos from Belgium Dairy Protest! MUST SEE!

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:55:04 +0000

Woah, 3 Million litres! Surely there could have been a better way to give away that milk! Like sending it to impoverished countries. It’s outragous.

By: Jackie Schmidts

Jackie Schmidts — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:57:03 +0000

Folks, what you see here is the end result of failed government intervention. Open markets, supply and demand will work if left alone. It is very painful to see hard working farmers be led down a path of destruction by promises of better financial health by governments that in the end really can’t fix supply and demand. It is a world marketplace, national industries like dairy have to be willing to be a part of the world market or be left behind. Only those producers that are the most efficicient and competitive no matter what country in the end will survive, consumers demand this out of their products. As General Patton once said “it is not the goal of our farmers to slaughter their cows for their country, it is the to have the other guy’s cows slaughtered for their country.” Adopt economic policies that allow demand to drive production, then produers can decide if they have the business acumen and stomach to be part of the industry or not. If not then government could help train them to find a new career.

By: Theo Kusters

Theo Kusters — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:45:50 +0000

The European government promised a “soft-landing” when they announced the end of the quota system. This picture shows how this looks like! It is a wrong decision to get rid of the supply management system.
Modern family farms can NOT survive without some sort of supply management in this world, period. Governments,retailers,stores,consumers don’t seem to care…yet.
Therefore: although this action seems to be wrong, it is the only way to get the attention for a global issue.

By: Deborah Moreda

Deborah Moreda — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:39:53 +0000

I agree with Melba but we don’t have time to feed the world when we are about to starve ourselves. I think something should be done by the dairymen and if this starts something to prove our point then so be it. Good Job! I wish we could of done something in the United States to help.

By: John Donkers

John Donkers — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:55:30 +0000

This is just another example of how almost all farmers have lost control of how much money they actually receive for their products. Retailers have been allowed, over time to take more and more and governments turn a blind out of stupidity or are just paid off by lobbiest. With very few buyers left in the world its obvious controls are necessary to redistribute the wealth regardless of how wonderful you think free capitalism may be. Wake up world!

By: Brent Robinson

Brent Robinson — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:49:38 +0000

I think this is awesome, finally a group that can get close to unitity. This is great.

By: Melba STeinvorth

Melba STeinvorth — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:52:50 +0000

As milk producers ourselves, we are very upset because of actions like this.
How could you spill this huge amount of milk in the fields while people all over the world are starving to death as for example in Africa, Asia, South America and these days closer to us in Guatemala ???

Instead of this measure, you shold go to the local TV, or to the RED CROSS or inform the WHO about your huge milk quantities and put them to their disposal. There you will create the necessary publicity to claim for a right price and the worlds eyes would have learned about your problem.
Spilling nurtureous milk these days is a terrible mistake and a sinn.

Having lived in Europe myself for many years, I know that the problem of the milk producers there is the subvention they have been claiming from their governments for many years. This is a complete insane practice, every economist knows it, so….let the offer and demand set the price. This is the only acceptable policy for every agricultural activity.
Besides this, make some cheese, some curd, whatever is obviously a better policy than spillin the milk into a field. This is weird.