Europe's Lactose Intolerance

Dairy farmers in Europe are having a cow over low milk prices and have taken themselves -- and their bovines -- to the streets.

BY BOBBY PIERCE, JORDANA TIMERMAN | OCTOBER 6, 2009

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Mass moovement: Demonstrations against low milk prices and demands for aid have been going on for over a month in Europe, culminating yesterday when protesters invaded Brussels. Above, Belgian dairy farmers, many of whom brought their cows, protest low milk prices outside European Commission headquarters on Sept. 7. Organizers say milk prices are less than 75 percent of production costs and will only get worse if the European Union's proposal to eliminate milk quotas by 2015 comes to fruition.

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Bobby Pierce and Jordana Timerman are researchers at Foreign Policy.

DANDHBEACH

12:24 AM ET

October 27, 2009

this is actually a good news..

at least they are lowering the prices of milk..what bad is going to happen if you rise the prices of milk?

Dandh Beach