EU-Mercosur Agreement: We do not want to compete with Brazilian farms, nor to be like them
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Giant soybean fields in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in December 2021. (Michael Runkel / Robert Harding. AFP)
by a collective of farmers
This was one of the key demands of the 2024 agricultural protests , in which many of us joined forces. The free trade agreement between the European Union and Mercosur is a no. Because this agreement alone symbolises all the flaws in European trade policy as it is currently being implemented. With this agreement, while claiming to work towards its food sovereignty, Europe would be opening the doors of its market wide to cereals, meats and sugar produced by the world champions of agro-industry with the help of substances that have long been banned from our farms.
So, it is unequivocal and obvious, no
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