‘We Are Marching on Our Heads’: After ‘Green’ Policies Turned Their Life Upside Down, Protesting French Farmers Converge on Paris

The French know their food, know their wine. National pride regarding their cuisine is a major cultural force in the Republic.

And it all starts, of course, with the agriculture.

Extremely organized and highly influential, French farmers have been brought to the brink of bankruptcy by what they see as a mix of low farmgate prices, green regulations and free-trade policies.

As in many other European nations, disruptive protests broke out in the southwest of France, and spread across the country.

French farmers blocked highways in their second week of swelling protests, moving ever closer to Paris, where they are expected to arrive today (26).

Protesting French farmers converge on Paris.  » READ MORE