a positive strike for all

here's a quirky little story I picked up from Slow Food news.

"Hundreds of German milk producers recently went on strike for several weeks to protest against reduced milk prices, stopping milk deliveries until the retail market agreed to pay 40 eurocents per liter. In the German federal state of Hessen, 130 Slow Food member milk producers and members of the Uppl�nder Bauernmolkerei cooperative supported the strike action and stopped milk sales for four days even though their organic milk (of very high quality) commands a premium price of 50 eurocents per liter. Instead, they produced 14 tonnes of butter and 24 tonnes of milk powder, which was then donated on June 24 to representatives of the charity M�decins Sans Fronti�res."

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