Jun
18

Steak Frites Can’t Pay the Bills for French Farms Making $16,000

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From steak frites to pot-au-feu, the French eat twice as much beef as the average European and yet, farmers say they can’t make a living.

Squeezed by 16 months of falling prices and a shrinking export market, French cattle farmers turned to protests this week at 18 slaughterhouses around the country. Earnings dropped 22 percent in 2014 and the average breeder made 14,500 euros ($16,498), less than minimum wage and about 40 percent below the farm-industry average,government estimates show…

Steak Frites Can’t Pay the Bills for French Farms Making $16,000

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