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E527 Galicia’s Farmers Tracked 12 Portuguese Tankers a Day Into a €14 Million Subsidized Plant. Then They Dumped 15,000 Litres on the Pavement.

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The Bullvine Daily Brief by The Bullvine

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Galician farmers didn't just dump 15,000 litres of Portuguese milk on the pavement — they exposed a processor playbook running across every dairy market: public subsidies build "local" plants, cheaper imports fill them, and your contract gets squeezed 15%. This episode breaks down the €14 million Inleit scandal, the six-processor table of identical 7–9 cent cuts that triggered the protest, and the €40,000 annual hole those prices would carve out of a 100-cow farm. You'll hear why Spain's Food Chain Law keeps failing, how FMMO make-allowances quietly shifted $337 million from US producers to plants, and four checks you can run on your own processor before the next negotiation round.

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  • How a €14 million subsidized "Galician" plant ended up processing 12 Portuguese tankers daily — and what that means fo ... 
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