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
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
THE US, 1935
A truck loaded with milk is thrown in the river during the Milk War around Wisconsin, US circa 1933. It all started in the early 1930s with the Great Depression, when some independent dairy farmers started agitating for a better price for their milk. The milk trucks were pushed into the river by striking farmers that were unhappy about the decreasing price of milk products
