Last month, Jana Gabert joined German farmers to protest increasingly restrictive agenda and burdens that make it difficult to farm and almost no economic sense. The whole thing culminates in a bureaucracy that can no longer be interpreted as a lean administrative process, but rather as a punishment.
In her interview, "Farmers from around the world, Jana Gabert" by Country Life (7:19 pm on 16 Feb 2024) Gabert talks about her farm and impact of the protests.
The protests have an impact, but at the same time they also show that a general understanding of the problems of agriculture has not yet reached politics. These proposals are yet another shortsighted attempt to deny the obvious.
The threat to Germany’s wellbeing doesn’t come from farmers who are working hard to grow the food we need. It comes from a politics that has distanced itself from the people. What is needed is a politics that listens and has in mind the prosperity of everyone rather than client groups.
There are opportunities to take action--the protests have already opened the first doors.
