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Milk shortage looms for Germany
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by cynthia yoo | June 4, 2008 at 11:04 am
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German dairy farmers have been staging protests against the new EU policies. As a result, German shops are running low on milk.
The German milk industry federation said that blockades of milk processing plants by angry farmers had cost the industry nearly 50m euros (£39.5m).Protesters have also emptied milk tankers onto the ground.
Farmers are demanding a minimum price of 0.43 euros (£0.34) a litre - at least 20% more than the current price.
They say rising fuel and feed costs have pushed up their operating costs but the retail price of milk has not increased correspondingly.
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at 20:50 on June 4th, 2008
ersatzspeiche has contributed a photo to this story.
at 22:00 on June 4th, 2008
Die europäischen Milchbauern haben wirklich keine Veranlassung so freundlich zu lächeln wie der nette Bär auf diesem Foto,speziell die kleineren Familienbetriebe. Sie sollten einen fairen Preis für ihre Milch und für ihre tagtägliche Arbeit erhalten. Es kann doch nicht sein, dass eine Flasche Mineralwasser teurer ist als 1 Liter dieses wirklich wertvollen Lebensmittels.
The European milk farmers really have no cause to smile as friendly as the nice bear on this photo, special the smaller family farms. You should get a fair price for her milk and for her daily work. It really cannot be that a bottle of mineral water is more expensive than 1 litre of this really valuable food.
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at 22:08 on June 4th, 2008
Milk is brilliant ...
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at 14:18 on June 5th, 2008
got milk?
at 17:08 on June 5th, 2008
A photo that I took at a grocery market in Hamburg, Germany.
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at 07:48 on June 8th, 2008
This is how successful the milk boycott was on June 3 at my supermarket's cash register.
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at 11:18 on June 8th, 2008
"Is milk harmless? or is it shameless exploitation?"
a placard seen in the sickingenstraße, berlin wedding a few weeks ago.
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at 01:31 on June 27th, 2008
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