Spilled milk

Following the milk delivery strike in Germany, the Austrian daily comments on the plans of Austrian milk farmers for a strike. "Farmers generally are not big earners. Nonetheless, they must ask themselves whether a strike ... like that of their German colleagues ... is the right way to draw attention to their dwindling profit margins. ... When annoyed customers are faced with almost empty fresh milk shelves at supermarkets, they will not be thinking of the fate of farmers trapped between higher energy prices that push up prices for dung and animal feed and calculating chain stores. ... The result of this kind of action will only cause further damage to the farmers' image, because in view of heavy subsidies for agriculture, city dwellers have little sympathy for the farmers' plight. A boycott of this nature would quite literally be spilled milk."

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