Protesting farmers dumped manure, hay and blocked traffic with their tractors during protests in the Toulouse and Nancy.
The strikes are a response to what the protesting farmers say
are increasing constraints and charges imposed by the European Union and French government on the nation's agricultural community,
in particular the reforms to the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
French farmers, who are known to protest quite a bit, are currently protesting sanctions against Russia that are causing their prices to fall,
by staging demonstrations where they dump different kinds of garbage in public.
They even threw garbage and apples at the riot police sent in to control the protests, as if they were a bad vaudeville act in an old cartoon.
