(18 Nov 2024)
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Beauvais, France – 18 November 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Pan of farmers gathered in front of Office Français de la Biodiversité (OFB) a government office tasked with enforcing environmental standards
2. Various of farmers walling up entrance of building
3. Various of farmers preparing cement amidst tractors
4. Mid of farmers leaving after walling up
5. Various of farmers and tractors gathered and talking with reporters
6. Close of fake tombstone crosses reading “Mercosur”
7. Various of Armelle Fraiture dropping tyres on roof of building
++DAY SHOTS++
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Armelle Fraiture, farmer:
“Above all, it’s a job of passion. We don’t do it for the money, of course, otherwise I don’t think many people would be doing it. It’s really because we love it, because it’s the family business that we want to perpetuate. And above all, because we love it and we want to do it for the rest of our lives. We’d like to make a living from it. We don’t earn much from our farm right now, we earn what we can. Today we don’t have children. But we don’t know what tomorrow will look like.”
9. Various of farmers driving their tractors and gathering in Beauvais
10. Close of police officer watching tractors as they circulate
11. Wide of tractor with sign reading (French): “Less standards, no hormones”
12. Wide of tractor with sign reading (French): “We want to work to live, not live to work and pay”
13. Various of farmers listening to union members delivering speeches
14. Régis Desrumaux, head of the FDSEA Oise farmer’s union, speaking UPSOUND (French):
“We’re going to sell cars, we’re going to sell services and we’re going to sell off agriculture. I’ll tell you what: for me, it’s no”
15. Close of FDSEA logo on jacket
16. SOUNDBITE (French) Régis Desrumaux, head of the FDSEA Oise farmer’s union:
“You can’t impose terrible standards on us, French farmers, regulations that leave us totally lost, have a punitive ecology and then open the doors to products from countries that don’t respect our standards. That’s really what we’re denouncing today.”
++NIGHT SHOTS++
17. Wide of tractors parked near local prefecture where farmers are setting up camp for the night
18. Mid of farmers unloading road signs from truck
19. Various of farmers placing signs in front of prefecture’s gate in show of protest
20. Close of farmer yawning in front of prefecture’s gate
21. Mid of farmers cooking at camp
STORYLINE:
Dozens of farmers with about 50 tractors gathered on Monday in Beauvais in northern France before walling up a government office tasked with enforcing environmental standards, as part of a nationwide wave of protests against the European Union-Mercosur trade agreement.
Lifted by her father’s tractor, 25-year-old farmer Armelle Fraiture dropped tires on the roof of the building.
With her partner, she just took over her family’s 300-cow farm in the Beauvais region earlier in the year and expressed concerns about the prospect of South American beef products hitting the French market.
“It’s a job of passion,” she told Associated Press, adding, “We want to do it for the rest of our lives. We’d like to make a living from it. We don’t earn much from our farm right now.”
Backed by their government, protesters argue the deal would threaten their livelihoods by allowing a surge of South American agricultural imports.
54-year-old head of the FDSEA Oise farmer’s union Régis Desrumaux said that the regulations "leave us totally lost" leaving room for products to be exported from other countries that "don’t respect our standards."
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