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Despite there being a very serious, pretty widespread ruckus directly from the French farmers.

There's really not a lot of coverage about it, as you said even in France when we spoke before.

I think a lot of people are going to be unaware of this which is

surprising considering the amount of damage and actual activities you could

call them that these farmers have been doing against the state.

Let's just start with what are they doing and why are they doing it?

So this all started around mid November and it started with farmers all across Western France, Central France and

South Western France turning signs of their cities upside down, protesting

against new government regulations and laws that were voted, which then turned into government buildings being, you know,

the entrance to government buildings being scattered with animal waste and agricultural waste and all that stuff and and then also in some places in Brittany supermarkets were also vandalized against the

that was the process against the massive margins that supermarket chains were making off of local products and also stoning of police cars in one place.

And, you know, yeah, just lots of different places, because it's a very,

a very broad protest, it's happening everywhere in rural France so these farmers sort of get

together and plan out what they can do in their sectors but they mainly staged protests by driving

tractors into towns and just sort of stop traffic and also poor and cover public buildings, government buildings with waste.

Right, they're literally dumping manure like piles and piles and

manure outside

government buildings and so some of the some of the reasons it's quite

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