Follow us this live dedicated to the new day of action organized by Aveyron farmers who denounce the draft Mercosur trade agreement under discussion at the G20 which has been held since Monday, November 18, in Brussels.
Why do farmers fear this treaty?
Farmers explain that it would open the way to a flood of meat from livestock champions like Brazil and Argentina, without respecting European health standards. The agreement provides for export quotas of 99,000 tonnes of carcass equivalent and the removal of all customs duties on some 60,000 tonnes of meat imported from Mercosur.” Another fear put forward is “environmental or food safety standards.
What is Mercosur?
Mercosur is short for Southern Common Market. It is a neoliberal common market located mainly in South America. It was created in 1991 with the objective of allowing its member countries to be able to exist and compete on the market of the global economy when each of them could not have done so on its own. So, its South American countries decided to form together a trade bloc called Mercosur.
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Gatherings planned in Occitania
This Tuesday, November 19, several actions are planned in Occitanie. As detailed in La Dépêche du Midi (see map), in the Gers convoys will converge towards Auch; the farmers of Hautes-Pyrénées could join them; In the Tarn the tractors will reach the prefecture before reaching the city center in the evening;
Already in January 2024
The Piton had already been invaded by farmers during the demonstrations last January. The day of Wednesday 31 was notably marked by a huge mobilization in the city with many tractors coming to show their discontent: the Place d'Armes had been stormed, just like the surrounding arteries.
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The planned route in Aveyron
On its networks, the CR12 calls to meet you ” with your tractors, dump tractors, and telescopics “, with a rallying to Cassagne from 9 a.m. The procession indicates that it will cross the Grand Fuel Bridge at 9:30 a.m., the roundabout Arugula at 9:45 a.m., The Rock et The Primaube at 10 a.m., the Bourran roundabout at 11 a.m. and finally the prefecture at noon.
Tractors converge on Rodez this November 19
Rural Coordination takes over this Tuesday. Several processions of tractors will set off, including one from Cassagnes-Bégonhès from 9 a.m. The goal is to converge on Rodez and its prefecture at midday. A procession made up of 70 tractors is then mentioned.
Hazard lights lit everywhere in Aveyron and in France Monday November 18
This Monday, November 18, it is the farmers of the FDSEA et Young Farmers from the Lot valley sector who first invested in the Espalion roundabout. With the submarine from the diving museum next to it, as a symbol of the sinking of French agriculture. “The anger has never stopped,” says one of the farmers straight away, putting up a “No to Mercosur” banner and lighting a fire. Hazard lights, this is the name of the operation carried out by the first agricultural union in France.
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In Aveyron, at the call of the Rural Coordination, this Tuesday, November 19, 2024, a new action is being carried out to denounce, among other things, the draft Mercosur trade agreement discussed at the G20 between the European Union and the southern member states -Americans.
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