in the Basque Country, the Rural Coordination dumps tons of waste and slurry in front of two mass distribution stores

Promocash and Metro are targeted. Farmers criticize them for offering New Zealand lamb for sale.

In the midst of agricultural protests, the Coordination Rurale 64 union dumped tons of agricultural waste and slurry in the night from Thursday to Friday in front of two large-scale distribution stores in Anglet (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), reports Friday, November 22 in the morning, France Bleu Pays Basque.

The demonstrators are particularly opposed to the free trade agreement between the European Union and the Mercosur countries. They fear seeing cheaper Brazilian or Argentinian products arriving in France, whose standards are much less restrictive than their own products. “Farmers have flat cash flow. They don’t know if they will still be there tomorrow. They can no longer tolerate having this unfair competition in businesses near them,” denounces on France Bleu Pays Basque Benjamin Loste, president of Rural Coordination 64.

The farmers targeted the Promocash and Metro brands. They criticize them for offering meat of foreign origin in their stalls and on their website, in particular lamb of New Zealand origin.

Rural Coordination is expecting announcements from Annie Genevard on Friday. “We were told that we were going to have written progress from the Minister of Agriculture this morning. We will be attentive to this progress, and we will advise. If we don't have these written advances, it will start again very strongly”menace Benjamin Loste.