Angry Farmers Set Fires on the Champs-Elysees

I so wish american farmers would take a stand like this rather than handing over their farms to corrupt institutions like Monsanto's!

Angry French farmers blocked the famous Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris early this morning to call attention to the difficulties their sector is going though. Several other French cities were also affected. In Poitiers (western France), farmers dumped about a thousand cubic meters of soil in the city center. French media reported that several hundreds of tractors converged towards the centers of several French cities from north to south, disrupting or stopping traffic on roads and highways.  52,000 protesters took part in the protests nationwide, according to the FNSEA (Fédération Nationale des Exploitants Agricoles), France’s main farmers’ union.http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/10/angry-protestors-set-fires-on-the-champselysees.html