Farmers pour milk on a field

Angry farmers protested against low milk prices in a number of European countries on Wednesday. Above all they criticise the EU's plans to scrap milk quotas. The daily România Liberă writes: "For several hours streams of milk flew through a field chosen by protestors in Belgium. … The motives for this protest are well-known: European milk producers are on the brink of ruin because the selling price on the wholesale market often doesn't even cover the cost of production. … For the average consumer, unaware of the farmers' plight, this ritualistic destruction of milk is blasphemous. … These people who poured three million litres of milk onto the field yesterday are farmers for whom 'not throwing away food' is a tradition because it is 'sinful'. … So we can imagine how desperate they must be to commit such a sin."

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