The Grim Reaper: Major farmer protests around the world in the past 100 years
The Grim Reaper: Major farmer protests around the world in the past 100 years
One of the largest protests in human history got the world's attention as hundreds of thousands of farmers marched to India's capital and set up camp at its borders to protest the new farm laws. As this visual survey of past protests show, farmers the world over have been trapped by bureaucratic and oppressive government policies, exploitation by landholders, crippling debts, losses on marketed goods, and devastating weather, leading to some significant protests in those countries
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GERMANY, 2014
Bavarian Farmer Johann Huber walks his diaper-wearing cow Doris in a protest in Gmund am Tegernsee, Germany on October 8, 2014. Huber was reacting to an EU regulation he believes would prevent him from fertilising his land using manure. The new EU regulations forbid manure from areas with a gradient of more than 15 percent