If you want countries that don’t subsidize agriculture that has been Aussie and NZ since the 80s iirc. Though I haven’t lived in those countries for a decade or two now and Covid and various financial panics over the last decades resulted in a variety of corporate hand outs so it seems plausible that those businesses have got some government support since then.
So you want to keep farms up even in times the market wont.
Yeah, that's kind the idea of a protest. If you don't create enough inconvenience, than it will be, at best, a small line in a newspaper. "10 thousand farmers gathered in an abandoned meadow and drove around in protest." Yes, cute.
They are going this far because, obviously, they have the feeling they haven't been heard, and/or because they feel decisions are being made that are not taking into account the reality of their profession.
> lighting fires containing asbestos
This sounds like nothing more than a dubious scaremongering claim to discredit whatever concern they are trying to air. It -might- be something that happened anecdotally and accidentally, but to describe it as something done deliberately while also putting their own health in danger requires quite a bit more proof than hearsay.
It has happened regularly at farmer protests, so speculating that it might be accidental is absurd. They deliberately burn garbage containing asbestos. They are criminals that deserve to be behind bars.