@syvash
The article is in German, but I think you'll find ways and means to translate it.😉

https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/tv/das_erste/2019/01/2019014_akte_d_bauernlobby.html

@syvash
In the former GDR, former LPG board members distinguished themselves after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the privatization of cooperative farms, often enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary members using dubious legal tricks, and were welcomed with open arms by West German associations.

@syvash
The farmers' associations (not all small farmers, of course!) already played a “very special” role during National Socialism, exploiting forced laborers and, after the war, taking advantage of the plight of those bombed out of the cities and the displaced, trading their last possessions for a piece of butter or a sack of flour.

@syvash
I think the outrage over the cancellation of subsidies for “agricultural diesel” was deliberately stirred up by lobby groups and used as a show of force. The real problems facing farmers run much deeper and would require a complete structural change that would call into question consumer behavior and, as a result, industrial production as a whole.
That is why the farmers' association had its mercenaries occupy the streets with heavy equipment.

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@Nyssa
The transition in agriculture is likely to be a sticking point, because the fossil fuel lobby will mobilize its armies of farmers, who were first hooked on and then kept dependent on pesticides and fertilizers.
I look forward to hearing your announced remarks on this subject.