E- Leclerc in Ploermel targeted for 3 days

This is 3 days running the tractors / farmers have blocked access to Ploermel Leclerc

Just passed by LeClerc - it is blockaded so effectively that you can't even get in even without a car

I wonder how a farmer would feel if I blocked access to his farm ? ( I know he'd probably knock several shades of #### out of me , but would the police stop me ? - of course they would )

I know it's not possible but wouldn;t it be good if the supermarkets could get the names of these farmers and thier families and block them from ever entering the shops again.One can only dream.

Maybe we should think more about buying the cheaper, i.e. New Zealand lamb, S American beef etc,

and would you believe it ONIONS! from New Zealand ONIONS!!!!!!!!, saw them in our local super duper a few days ago, I laughed then, even though they looked ok, but onions for heavens sake cheap btw transported halfway round the globe, but I'M not laughing any more

I wouldn't have dreampt of buying an antipodean ONION but now faced with these tactics, depends on how civilised it is.

, The farmers are really SUCCEEDING in alienating us who would LIKE TO support BUY French!

I have just been told that Leclerc in Pontivy has tonight been or is now being, surrounded and blocked by the farmers. So tomorrow may prove difficult or near on impossible to shop there. This coming in direct contradiction of info I heard several days ago  that Leclerc Pontivy wasn't to be targetted.

Dinan is bad again.Le Clerc and Carrefour yesterday today they are stopping lorries going into Dinan and checking contents. I thought naivly that France had a free market  maybe time other countries threw out french produce the way the farmers are doing here. I am now going to buy as little French stuff as possible, i know it won't make a difference but it will to me.

I read a survey carried out in Brittany within the last 3 or 4 days that appeared to represent that 83% of the french public support the farmer's protests.

Probably most of the people they surveyed were farmers, their families, or farm workers.

Apparently if they are protesting with the blessing of a bona fide union and their protest is registered at the prefecture they are able to do what they like - as we have seen.

They have made a bl**dy mess of the big square in Pontivy and the front of the impots, I somehow doubt that the local taxman has any influence on where the supermarkets get their produce from.

They blockaded the big Intermarche distribution depot near Pontivy for the last 3-4 days until a bailiff turned up with a court order to move on in 10 minutes which they didn't do so the gendarmes moved them on.

France is a strange country sometimes.

To put a different perspective on matters. I hazard a guess, that many more folk will be looking to grow their own. Which will have a knockon effect. More people getting out and becoming healthier as a result of working in their gardens. However, perhaps it will have a reverse effect on sales made by the supermarkets. This probably won't effect the farmers hereabouts though, but hopefully it may make the supermarkets aware a tad more as regards the demands of those that buy  there and  those which sell to them. A faint hope I suppose.