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The farmers blocked
highways around Paris. They parked their
on main roads to stop
going in and out of the city. They also dumped smelly agricultural
outside government offices. Farmer Christophe Rossignol told the Associated Press news
: "We've come to defend French
. We go from crisis to crisis." Another farmer said: "Parisians are going to be
. The goal is to starve Parisians." A large farmers union said: "Our objective is to put
on the government so that we can quickly find a solution for a way out of the
." Some tractors had messages on them that said: "No food without farmers" and "The end of us would mean
for you."