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2005-04-02 Home Front: Culture Wars
French wine rebels employ brut force and dynamite
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Posted by seafarious 2005-04-02 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 ...the French themselves are drinking less wine.

Their population is becoming increasingly muslim, who don't drink. Effect, meet cause.
Posted by PBMcL 2005-04-02 12:58:52 AM||   2005-04-02 12:58:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 The problem is 2 fold. Too many French vineyards/to many grapes. The quality of a large amount of this wine is ordinary to poor. The market reacts to that. In the US the vineyards are ripped out and a new crop is put in it's place. France can't react in as flexible a fashion. Economic displacment isn't acceptable to the small time French vintner as it is in small time the new world ag business man/farmer.

These jokers are unionized for god sakes. So the booming is typical union goonery.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-02 1:23:06 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-04-02 1:23:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The Languedoc-Roussillon produces mainly table-wine: low-end wine for drinking at ordinary meals. The French drink less and less of that kind of stuff. They drink far less alcohol than in the sixties. Take more of their alcohol in form of hard liquors (mainly whisky) and when they drink wine it tends to be quality wine in special occasions. People having (ordinary) wine at every meal are dwindling in numbers specially between young.

The reduction in alcohol increase started n the sixties and had nothing to do with muslims. For one side governement was taking measures both in the school system, in regulation, taxation of alcoholic beverages and propaganda for dicouraging people of drinking.

In another side the exposure to american way of life through TV killed some of the French models of alcohol consumption: the small glass of white wine at mid-morning has virtually disappeared and of course, the american way of life brought soft-drinks and the hated Coca-Cola.
Posted by JFM  2005-04-02 3:12:37 AM||   2005-04-02 3:12:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ...a policeman was knocked off his scooter and injured. Protesters then set fire to the scooter before running away.

Heh.
Posted by Parabellum 2005-04-02 8:24:11 AM||   2005-04-02 8:24:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Protestors set fire to a police scooter?

Yeesh. What a bunch of pikers. Even their "protestors" are lazy and ineffective.

American protestors would have set fire to a couple of police cars. No wonder they hate are jealous of us - even our protestors are better than theirs.

Maybe they need to hire some American "protestors" to show them how to do it right. The MoveOn Moore-On crowd's not busy right now; I'll bet they'd take the gig.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2005-04-02 9:33:05 AM||   2005-04-02 9:33:05 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, if you want dramatic protests, I hear the Koreans are the champs.
Posted by James  2005-04-02 10:06:07 AM|| [http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]  2005-04-02 10:06:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 A shadowy group calling itself the Comité Regional d’Action Viticoles (CRAV)

Are its members called the CRAVen?
Posted by Pappy 2005-04-02 10:09:07 AM||   2005-04-02 10:09:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 As the the American"Redneck"Philosopher says"Here's your sign".
Yeap,James.In the 70's Seoul was off limits becues of"Student protests".
Posted by raptor 2005-04-02 10:35:31 AM||   2005-04-02 10:35:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 And those protesters now run the government, which is why we're laying off 1000 Korean workers and scaling back materiel at our bases there.
Posted by too true 2005-04-02 11:20:53 AM||   2005-04-02 11:20:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Sea,

"Global" = "Jooos", I'd wager.

Excellent perception!!
Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-04-02 1:23:00 PM||   2005-04-02 1:23:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 They're on the right track... the only way I would drink French wine anymore is if someone held a gun on me.
Posted by DO 2005-04-02 1:43:39 PM||   2005-04-02 1:43:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 The small producers want it both ways: They own their land and other facilities and are therefore capitalists and want to remain such. At the same time, their product is obsolete, over-abundant, and uncompetitive, and they demand socialist-style subsidies and special protection for their livelihood. You can't really have it both ways, they are either in business or they are on the dole. If the latter, there are more efficient ways to handle it.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-04-02 1:53:23 PM||   2005-04-02 1:53:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I say nationalize the pipsqueaks, that'll teach 'em to demand socialist protection.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-04-02 1:54:43 PM||   2005-04-02 1:54:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 seafarious,


Thank you: brut force, my favorite style of drinking.
Posted by Wine r 2005-04-02 8:41:03 PM||   2005-04-02 8:41:03 PM|| Front Page Top

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