Agriculture reformists slam industrialized farming under Angela Merkel
People calling for agriculture policy reform drove tractors through Berlin and renewed their rejection of Germany s ecologically ruinous farm and food sectors.
Protesters demanded species-appropriate farming in a demonstration outside the Chancellery
Protesters drove a tractor over a sign stating, 15 years of CDU agricultural policy leave traces: farmyard closures, price dumping, climate crisis. That tractor was one of 30 that took part in a demonstration in Berlin on Saturday against the agriculture policy maintained by Chancellor Angela Merkel s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) over the last decade and a half.
In addition to protesting against Germany s current farm and food policies, they said they also wanted to get voters attention ahead of six state elections and a federal parliamentary vote coming up in 2021.
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