Germany: Farmers and climate activists demand new agriculture policy at Berlin tractor protest
Subscribe to our channel Columns of tractors, farmers, climate, and animal rights activists gathered to demand new agricultural policies in Berlin for the yearly We re fed up demonstration, on Saturday. Protesters first gathered at the Christian Democratic Union party s federal headquarters, where a tractor trampled over a banner reading 15 years the CDU s agricultural policy leaves traces behind, decrease in small farms, dumping prices, climate Protesters later moved to the German Chancellery, where thousands of drawings of footprints of people who were unable to participate due to the COVID19 pandemic were hung on string. Normally the demonstration draws thousands to the German capital but this year s demonstration was far smaller in scale due to the coronavirus outbreak. SOT, Protester (German): What is happening today is for ecological agricultural policy, the problems for agriculture, social problems, but also ecological problems are constantly increasing. Farmers
|
|