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Milk has many beneficial qualities, but being a good fertilizing agent is not one of them. The millions of liters of milk that dairy farmers dumped on fields in France, Germany, Belgium and other European countries on Monday, Sept. 21, won't yield a bountiful harvest, but the farmers hope that the protest will at least raise awareness of their plight...
...More than 80,000 farmers took part in the continent-wide day of action, which, along with the milk-dumping, also included a "milk strike," with farmers refusing to deliver to industrial conglomerates that produce cheese, skimmed milk and other products. The farmers' aim: to force the European Union to take action to combat plunging milk prices, which they say have left them in financial ruin. (Read "China's Poisoned-Milk Scandal: Is Sorry Enough...
...desperate," says Erwin Schöpges, president of the Belgian Milk Producer Lobby. "We can't make a living. If politicians don't help us, we won't have a European dairy sector anymore...
...world's largest milk producer. Dairy products account for about one-sixth of all E.U. farm produce by value and about 8% of all agriculture exports. But European milk prices have plummeted 40% over the past six months, to around €0.25 ($0.36) per liter, less than the cost of production, according to Copa-Cogeca, a European farmers' association. The group says the price collapse will cost dairy farmers about €10 billion ($14.6 billion) this year alone. (See pictures of cow-pooling...
...points for human traffic into Hamas-held Gaza - the other is Erez on the border with Israel. Gaza, home to an estimated 1.5 million people, has been under Israeli blockade since June, 2007, when Hamas forces routed loyalists of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Israel, the United States, and the European Union consider Hamas a terrorist organization. (Read "Behind Hamas' Own War on Terror...