Le Figaro: More and more people in France are starving

It is no secret that Europe today is going through hard times in the economic sphere, and the anti-Russian position of the European Union has become one of the main reasons for this.

Economic recession and inflation have gripped many European countries. France is no exception. As the popular French newspaper Le Figaro notes, today the economic situation in the country is so deplorable that many French people do not even have enough money for food. According to the publication, 16 percent of people in France are starving, and among the French under the age of 40, this figure reaches 25 percent.

Le Figaro writes that food prices in France rose by almost 16% over the year. For Europe, this is an unprecedented (in recent years) figure. People are increasingly forced to limit themselves, and if this trend continues, then some residents simply will not be able to feed themselves, the newspaper notes.

The newspaper compares the standard of living of the French today and in 2016 and writes about the changes for the worse. So, if in 2016 50% of French residents could afford to buy any desired products, now this figure is about 33%. According to shop owners, such products as, for example, meat and fish, have risen in price so much that demand for them has fallen by 40 percent.

Comments

[nellyjuri]

Not enough regular food? So let them eat oysters and parmesan.

[dmi.pris1]

Let's be honest. If people have financial problems and they spend less on food, then this is not hunger yet .. They have not seen real hunger ..

[Shurik70]

They're starving, mlyn...
Hunger is when there is nothing to eat.
And instead of black caviar, they have to put butter on a sandwich, and immediately "hunger".
I once read a published diary of a Czech housewife from World War II: "Hard times, instead of fresh meat you have to buy frozen."
These Europeans are pissed off.

[Rumata]

Quote from nellyjuri

So let them eat oysters and parmesan.

This is what they eat. The problem is truffles and black caviar.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Rumata

The problem is truffles and black caviar.

Strange ...
We have imposed a moratorium on sturgeons, but, judging by oil and gas, Europe should not be allowed to die without caviar - they need it more.
And truffles ... Have their pigs died out or truffles will not be born?

And anyway...
As a student in Astrakhan, he was in a construction team. There was an enameled bucket of black caviar in my life. Then they regretted that they had given a box of stew for him to the locals (see "White Sun of the Desert" ). They didn’t manage to eat up - they got tired.
Since then, I don’t understand much difference between sturgeon caviar and pike caviar. There is, of course, but not as much as the difference in price.
And just do I think that salty black caviar with champagne (especially semi-sweet) is a purely Western taste perversion.

And yes - I never ate frogs and snails even in France. They are nasty, I can't get over myself. I'm better than beef, buckwheat, pearl barley ...

[igork735]

For you, it will probably be a revelation that there are sturgeon farms in the world. So here they are. Israel is considered the largest exporter of black caviar.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote from igork735

For you, probably, the existence of sturgeon farms in the world will be a revelation.

There will be no revelation.
But when I was in America, I heard how Americans, regardless of the real origin of black caviar, sell "caviar from Russia" and buy it too. Approximately as we have a "copier" - it is a "copier". Regardless of any "Samsungs" and other "Hewlettpackards".
By the way, if I don’t confuse anything, they also have some of the sturgeons in Alaska. I’m not exactly sure, I’m fond of zoology at the level of a school textbook.

[NOMADE]

Well, snails in garlic sauce are really tasty

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: NOMADE

Well, snails in garlic sauce are really tasty

They are slippery and nasty.
Hunger, of course, is not an aunt - it will press well, so I’ll eat something else. But until I starve, no snails, no frogs, no locusts and cockroaches.
Although he ate a snake in the army. True, they did not tell me that it was a snake. So she's not that bad in real life either.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Economic recession and inflation have gripped many European countries.

Maybe they will finally understand that capitalism is theft, robbery, blood, tears and sweat tanks!
Down with the ministers-capitalists!

[dmi.pris1]

Actually, this also applies to us. To the same extent ..

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Of course, but I noted something else.

[YanniKounnar]

Le capitalisme c'est: "l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme"
Le Communisme c'est : l'inverse....:-)

A bit of humor
Capitalism is: "exploitation of man by man"
Communism is: on the contrary .... :-)

[North Caucasus]

What is their hunger? They buy grain from the outskirts at dumping prices and feed their livestock with it! Their meat must be cheap! Or do frogs not eat grain? Maybe theirs Selyuks are poor from dumping?

[Mikhail3]

Quote: North Caucasus

What is their hunger? They buy grain from the outskirts at dumping prices and feed their livestock with it! Their meat must be cheap! Or do frogs not eat grain? Maybe theirs Selyuks are poor from dumping?

They are usually hungry. When you have to fumble through the garbage dumps so as not to die. Hunger is the scourge of capitalism. If there are not a significant number of hungry people who cannot be hidden, the rest will cease to be submissive, and there will be much less effort at work. Without hunger, capitalism is generally impossible.
Hunger is not very visible from the tourist routes. And when you learned for free to be a highly qualified pro, and then came to France on the salary of such a pro, it is also easy to ignore the hungry. But that doesn't mean they don't exist...

[dmi.pris1]

I understand your indignation at the position of people under capitalism. But not to the same extent .... Comrade Suslov ..

[Mikhail3]

For a long time did not pay attention to our hungry? We have fewer of them, of course. But strictly because once they were denied access to heat. To heating mains, entrances, basements. And Grandfather Frost "cleans up the accounts" every winter. I advise you to remember only that life is an unstable thing. And anyone can get into everything. Then you will understand what hunger is, and to what extent it is...

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: North Caucasus

Their meat must be cheap! Or do frogs not eat grain?

Force.
Geese are forcibly shoved, bringing unfortunate birds to cirrhosis of the liver, and then this cirrhotic liver is proudly called "foie gras". It will be interesting to see how they will force feed the frogs. Especially mosquitoes.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: North Caucasus

....... Their meat should be cheap! Or do frogs not eat grain?

Yes, Igor Do frogs actually eat flies!!! But the French don’t want to for some reason ... Now, if they would agree (not in words, but in deeds!) With patagoniza and lick their ass shvabu --- that would be hunger !!!
I wonder if they'll give up foie gras, or no

[Zoldat_A]

Dmitry, !

Quote: Reptiloid

Frogs actually eat flies!!!

Flies are eaten by tarantulas. And ONLY alive. We lived in the army in a five-liter jar from under the Hungarian "Assorted" for a couple of weeks. Now it’s funny to remember how the whole platoon caught live flies for him ... Neighbors twisted their fingers at the temples - they thought that we collectively, with the whole platoon, went crazy from the heat.

Didn't eat. I died myself. Probably ate. Buried in the garbage along with the jar.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Zoldat_A

.... Tarantulas eat flies. And ONLY alive. ....

Tarantula ----- predator, hunter in the wild. It runs very quickly, for prey, or hides in a mink, braiding it from the inside with a cobweb. He died in captivity, like predators .... or maybe it's just time

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Reptiloid

Frogs actually eat flies!!! And the French do not want for some reason ...

Recently, the fashion trend about edible worms has been gaining momentum. And where there are worms, there will definitely be flies. And if the topic “eat flies to spite Russia and in support of Ukraine” comes up, then there will be no chance to refuse.

[Horon]

Quote from nellyjuri

Not enough regular food? So let them eat oysters and parmesan.

Rather, it’s just that oysters are no longer enough, you have to eat bread and butter and drink water, not wine.

[dmi.pris1]

By the way, the wine is cheap there. But I'm not sure about good drinking water.

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Horon

Rather, it’s just that oysters are no longer enough, you have to eat bread and butter and drink water, not wine.

And the bread will run out, we'll have to switch to cakes ...

[AlexKruglov1976]

Yes, let these frogs all die and the Muslims cut them!
As they were enemies of Russia since the time of Peter the Great, they remained so.
You give the Green Banner of the Prophet over the Elysee Palace!

[tralflot1832]

Let them turn to their gay man for croissants. Yesterday, even Mbape was not visible on the football field, but he was there.

[tralflot1832]

I suspect minuses are flying to me who bet on Real.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: tralflot1832

I suspect minuses are flying to me who bet on Real.

I don't give a damn about both, so I put a "plus".

[tralflot1832]

And I just like it when Real Madrid is rolled under the walnut!

[Mouse]

will be refined, slim and beautiful! like real french...

[faterdom]

Is that why we extended the grain deal?
Where is Zakharova - let her explain to our citizens, whose fish does not rise in price.

[rocket757]

Come on, Putasu has fallen in price... the cats will be happy.
By the way, what kind of fish has risen in price?

[tralflot1832]

Pay no attention, but the onion is yes!

[rocket757]

What about onions? It grows and ... we cut green onions, they have grown so much that they are already wild!
Warm, rainy!!! Everything grows here, especially weeds ... everyone was tortured to mow them, but there was no other way.

[Mouse]

My cat refuses to eat bluethroat .... give capelin .....

[Invoce]

Quote: Mouse

My cat refuses to eat bluethroat .... give capelin .....

Gourmet! My friend (wife went to the hospital, and he celebrated a week and somehow forgot to feed the cat, there was no time ... ) the same cat was .... But he learned to eat bones from herring, gobbled up all the paper napkins with traces of greasy fingers, licked all the cans, etc. Hunger is not an aunt

[Mouse]

ugh... as in a joke.... Wow!!! buckwheat!!!

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: Mouse

My cat refuses to eat bluethroat .... give capelin .....

Our capelin costs so much that I would eat such a harmful cat myself. (Joking, of course, but I would have threatened him for sure.)
And then they sell frozen - when defrosted inside some kind of mushy. As the moratorium was introduced, I did not see normal capelin. Before that, he constantly fried and made homemade "sprats".

[rocket757]

Where can you buy fresh sea fish?
Only where it is caught.
We have no problems with the river at all, I took a fishing rod, caught it, cook it and rejoice ...

[tralflot1832]

I have no problems with ice cream fresh from the sea, I determine it twice, in vain I froze the fish.

[rocket757]

So I had to eat different things, properly frozen and not so much. I especially remember the Argentinean smoke on, who knows what year the frost was, but for sure, they "made it" even when my father was still a cadet!
However, the comrade ate food from the reserves of the Kwantung Army ...

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

.....However, the comrade ate food from the stocks of the Kwantung Army...

The Kwantung Army froze ----- this is strong. I wonder at what depth did the permafrost begin there? I have been where, at a depth of 40-60 cm, the ground is already frozen. There were such conversations that since the 70s they began to find and dig out Soviet pre-war warehouses in case of war. Documents about which were lost. They ate food, wore clothes. They read books. Everything in these vaults was

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: rocket757

Where can you buy fresh sea fish?

Fresh, in our Volga understanding, is either Volga or FRESH-frozen sea - which has not lain for three to five years in the refrigerator and has not been thawed-frozen fifteen times.
And so yes. You, Victor, are absolutely right. I either catch fish or buy it in already "shot" places from men with sleepy hangover faces and backpacks, dressed like a fisherman, smelling of fire and fumes. In the morning, the fish still beats with its tail and the grass from the shore stuck to it.
It is a pity that there is not enough time to go fishing as much as we would like. I'm waiting for retirement - then I'll turn around ...

[rocket757]

I don’t even need to go anywhere to catch the heat ... 500 meters is the nearest body of water.
Although BEFORE, it was 20 meters to the same place.
Alas, alas, the spills are not the same now, everything is dried up nearby, only reeds remain.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: rocket757

I don’t even need to go anywhere to catch the heat ... 500 meters is the nearest body of water.
Although BEFORE, it was 20 meters to the same place.

I'm jealous...
Although I can even get to the Volga from home, even from the office for half an hour on foot. My nearest construction site is five to seven times further. Only there, where half an hour on foot - you will not catch anything. It's stupid to sit on the beach with a fishing rod - only if for the soul, breathe some air and stretch, throw the spinning. And to seriously, in an adult way, from a night or two to backwaters - there is always not enough time.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

....... We, ...... took a fishing rod, caught, ......

I remember how my father with a fishing rod, both in the river and in the Sea of ​​\uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbOkhotsk ... In the sea I caught small perches, palm-sized, and navaga ... Fresh, just from the sea - this is something!
And the red caviar, fresh from the fish belly --- glowed in the dark, silver-blue! Like this.

[rocket757]

We, too, once didn’t have to go far for black caviar ... alas, alas, now it has become expensive and difficult.

[Reptiloid]

....difficult....

It is interesting, Victor, that the English-speaking people call black caviar a separate word --- caviar. And any other, cod, red, herring, are called fish eggs --- "fish eggs"

[rocket757]

Now, not everyone can afford black caviar ...
Alas, nature does not forgive a frivolous attitude towards itself.

[Reptiloid]

She must have always been expensive. Simply, you had it as pasture. When I was small ---- parents persuaded what to eat ---- a spoon for dad, a spoon for mom, a spoon for pussy ..... now I regret that did not love

[tralflot1832]

This year, Russia's quota in the Barents Sea is 24,6 thousand tons. It has been completely selected in two months. Take the Murmansk capelin. and decomposes all the insides. Take only a bright capelin, with a back closer to black - this is a spawning capelin, hungry and with caviar. Murmansk 90 - 140 rubles / kg, Sochi 170 - 320 rubles. And it smells fresh immediately after defrosting - cucumbers, without bitterness.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: tralflot1832

Murmansk 90 - 140 rubles / kg, Sochi 170 - 320 rubles.

WOW! .. Our capelin is more expensive than a pork butt.

[rocket757]

Capelin is a delicious fish ... I ate it both in Murmansk and in the Far East.
Now I also buy, choose more carefully ...
I have a Sea Bass in my refrigerator and ours, a river one ... to choose from, in short.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: Zoldat_A

..... they sell frozen - when defrosted inside some kind of mushy. As the moratorium was introduced, I did not see normal capelin. Before that, he constantly fried and made homemade "sprats".

And now I remember my preschool Far Eastern childhood! When capelin came close to the seashore during spawning. And at the most crucial moment, she jumps up from the water ... The wave goes back, and a lot of fish remained on the pebbles. Who with a net, who with a bucket --- women and children collect. And I remember how, already from the age of 2, I grabbed it with my hands, and she --- jumps out! It usually happened with us, there, in June. And here, Vladimir Vladimirovich (UncleLee), already in May, now!

[rocket757]

Hi Dmitry
I saw it virtually as they rowed it on the shore ... local employees treated us and in the dining room, they also cooked it.
Fresh fish is yum yum, and frozen fish is a lottery, alas.

[Reptiloid]

....Fresh fish.....

Yes Victor Spawning takes about a week. They try, catch, harvest, to salt, smoke, dry ... Someone cooked soup. Someone fried. Someone made meatballs. Cutlets are very tasty, thick. I didn't realize at the time that they were dark blue. .... and after spawning, for some reason, dampness, fog set in, and not everyone could save the dried-dried fish they caught .... this was already told by the mother to the adult. The cats had a holiday, of course. And piglets. Only later, as I found out, the pork smelled like fish ....
Childhood....

[rocket757]

We used to feed herring, animals ... now there is no such thing.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: rocket757

We used to feed herring, animals ... now there is no such thing.

As a child, I liked F. Mowat's book "The Dog That Didn't Want to Be Just a Dog". There is an episode with an emigrant from Russia - I don’t even know what to call it ... Ukraine didn’t exist then, but I don’t remember what they were called in the book. In general, from where Ukraine is today (it takes place in Canada).
On the territory of this, let's call him a Ukrainian, there was some kind of puddle with commercially useless fish - perishable and tasteless. So he came up with it, on the sly from the neighbors, to keep a trade secret, to feed the pigs. They grew from that fish like bamboo, only the meat tasted like fish. Therefore, he took pork for sale to a distant town so that his secret would not be burned.

I have not seen cattle fed with fish (grandmother's pet cats and dogs in childhood do not count). The only thing - once in the 90s I tried "Bush legs" - my mother bought it, and I cooked it. There was a distinct smell of fish there.
I don’t know if there was fish there or something else (some kind of antibiotic could well give such a taste), but I didn’t risk eating these “Bush legs” anymore.

[rocket757]

Feeding cattle with fish, it was a long time ago ... I don’t even remember that, but my grandmother said for sure that I had to do this, not from a good life, of course ... anything happened, but a long time ago.
And so, it was the Volga herring that we began to eat very late ... this fish has always been considered weedy, like dushman (silver carp)! While there were many other fish, no one considered him a fish! But alas, in 1979, a great flood washed away the Zmeevochka ravine, where there were ponds with the gene fund of the fish farm, and they filled the entire floodplain! Before that, we didn't even know him.

[tralflot1832]

And I have on the contrary, apparently zazhralis.

[rocket757]

Our cats are not domestic, stray, mostly.
There are dacha societies nearby, every autumn a couple of cats come and ... my wife loves cats, so there are always a lot of them. And in the "big family" not up to centimeters, they eat everything and always! Although a couple of favorites, loved ones, can beg for something tastier.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

..... By the way, what kind of fish has risen in price?

gradually rose in price all, in my opinion welcome Victor!

[rocket757]

So Putasu recently fell in price, and before that everything was getting more expensive, it was noticeable.
We just buy something else rarely, we have a season of local fish, prices have fallen noticeably ... in the market, from fishermen, there is a lot of it, they will let them go home. In general, the fish season, until the heat comes.

[Reptiloid]

Quote: rocket757

..... In general, the fish season, until the heat has come.

Last year, your fellow countrymen put an interesting story on the net about fish, who were caught from the boats. Need to find out now..

[rocket757]

They shoot different things ... our friend made a whole film on the topic, they showed it on local television.
Now, on purpose, we don’t dangle for fish ... to relax, unwind, that’s it.

[Smoked]

No. Because capitalism and transnational corporations, to which the interests of national production, people, to one place.

[rocket757]

And what is NOT then?
About capitalism, its essence, everything is clear ... the last stage, as the classics of ML say, is imperialism!
For what "bearded" they ran into it.

[Popandos]

Is that why we extended the grain deal?

Yes, now the paddling pools will officially import Ukrainian grain, because they are starving.

[rocket757]

It is no secret that Europe today is going through hard times in the economic sphere, and the anti-Russian position of the European Union has become one of the main reasons for this.

. They themselves, their leadership muddied all this.
Themselves, at the behest of Uncle Sam, it doesn't matter anymore ... People chose such rulers themselves, all by themselves!

[YanniKounnar]

"Selon la publication, 16% des Français meurent de faim, et parmi les Français de moins de 40 ans, ce chiffre atteint 25%."
je ne sais si cette absurdité est du à la traduction?
Je suis Français avec une minuscule retraite...mais de là à "mourir de faim" !?
Je viens de passer quelques temps dans un pays Africain ou le salaire des plus modestes ne leur permettrait pas de remplir un "caddie" dans le carrefour local... Eux ont sans doute plus faim que le Français moyen, à l'aune de vos chiffres dans ce pays cela donnerait : 50% ou 80% de ces Africains meurent de faim" !?
Il est vrai que la nourriture a augmenté de plus de 16% pour certains produits plus de 30%...
Mais de là à écrire de pareille âneries...Cela décrédibilise l'auteur et le site :-(

"According to the publication, 16% of the French die of hunger, and among the French under the age of 40 this figure rises to 25%." I do not know if this nonsense is related to the translation? I am a Frenchwoman with a tiny pension ... And from there "starve"!? I just spent some time in an African country where the salary of the most modest would not allow them to fill the "basket" at the local crossroads ... They are probably hungrier than the average Frenchman, in the light of your figures in this country, this would give: 50% or 80 % of these Africans are dying of hunger "!? It's true that food prices have risen by more than 16%, and some products by more than 30% ... But to write such nonsense from there ... This discredits the author and the site :-(

[YanniKounnar]

Je ne sais pas dans la langue Russe mais en Français il ya une grosse différence entre :
"16% des Français ne mangent pas à leur faim" Figaro
and:
"16% des Français meurent de faim" Top War

I don't know Russian, but in French there is a big difference between:
"16% of the French do not have enough food" Figaro
and:
"16% of the French are dying of hunger" Top War

[AlexKruglov1976]

il n'y a pas de grande difference: quand il manque la nourriture, on meure.
C'est la loi de la nature.

[tralflot1832]

Unfortunately, almost all the French media for Russians on the Internet are paid with the latest news, do you still have to pay money for lies? The wrong ones were attacked.

[Alister kroulegg]

Pasta in France always costs the same

[Al manah]

food prices in France rose by almost 16% over the year. For Europe, this is an unprecedented (in recent years) figure.

Oh, what a horror... Should we sympathize with them? Or be glad that we have never food prices did not rise by 16%?

Old joke, 2 options:

Telegram to President Reagan: “We learned from Pravda that 60 percent of American citizens are malnourished. Please send us everything they don't eat.

Telegram to Africa: "We, the proletariat of the Non-Black Earth region, learned with anger that the Negroes in
Africa is not being eaten. We demand: everything that they do not eat up, urgently send to our
address..."

[Horon]

More people in France are starving

Starving Africa and starving France are two big differences. No need to worry about France, because the really hungry don’t produce so much garbage, and they usually don’t have enough strength for riots and protests.
On the other hand, I somehow do not see crowds of French people leaving France in search of a better life. The French newspaper is cunning, and our journalists just need to pick up the bad news, even if this news is from the category of philosophical reasoning!

[solar]

Le Figaro: More and more...

... VO is slipping into the yellow press :((
The legends of the "decaying West" have gained a second wind.

[2 Level Advisor]

desired products - what is it? oysters, black caviar and Widow Clicquot? strange news. there are few places in the world where citizens can buy for themselves - whatever their heart desires, without straining the budget ..

[bk-sarmat]

to starve in France, it's like how good it is to live here, somewhere in the Tambov province)

[Alexander X]

Don't care about the French. I am more concerned when our Russian pensioners cannot buy normal food!
And it’s better not to talk about the prices of medicines, in general. Magnelis B6 50 tablets - 495 ₽. This is the production of JSC "Pharmstandard-UfAVita", i.e. Russian, let alone some imported drug like SigduoLong, which our doctors prescribe for diabetics at 3600 rubles per month for a lifetime prescription and with a pension of 15-20 thousand rubles for the elderly ...
Here's what to write about, what to think about, how to help our pensioners...

[Or me]

today the economic situation in the country is so deplorable that many French people do not even have enough money for food.

What happened to the frogs? Run out? If so, then guardians Also, mosquitoes will bite.

[YanniKounnar]

Dans mon pays ou "15% des gens meurent de faim et 24% des moins de 40 ans"
Vous pouvez trouver des titres d'articles comme :
"un Français sur deux est ...obèse"
"forte progression de l'obésité chez les moins de 18 ans"
Ou ce genre de rapport:
"

"Publié le 9 May 202

La moitié de la population française présente un surpoids et 8,5 millions d'adultes souffrent d'obésité. L'obésité ne cesse de progresser, surtout chez les jeunes et favorise l'apparition ou aggrave l'évolution d'autres pathologies chroniques. Le point sur l'action publique engagee contre ce problème de santé.

Un rapport remis le 27 avril 2023 aux ministres chargés de la santé et des solidarités propose des mesures..."
J'ai vécu quelques années au Vietnam, il ya une trentaine d'années, et la bas pas de problemes d'obésité ...


In my country, where "15% of people die of starvation and 24% of people under 40" you can find headlines such as: "Every second Frenchman...obese" "Strong increase in obesity among people under the age of 18" Or this report: ""Published 9 May 202 Half the French population is overweight and 8,5 million adults are obese. Obesity continues to rise, especially among young people, and contributes to or exacerbates the development of other chronic diseases. Update on public action taken to address this health issue. The report presented on April 27, 2023 to the ministers responsible for health and solidarity proposes measures...” I lived several years in Vietnam, thirty years ago, and at the bottom there are no problems with obesity...

[Prisoner]

If someone is starving in France, it means that in Africa, some "Maksmka" "God sent a piece" of bread.

[zorglub bulgroz]

No, the Le Figaro article doesn't say exactly that. Local agriculture is strong enough to feed the population, as Russian agriculture feeds its people.
I want caviar, but how can a Frenchman only afford egg-pod caviar?

[Konnick]

As the popular French newspaper Le Figaro notes, today the economic situation in the country is so deplorable that many French people do not even have enough money for food. According to the publication, 16 percent of people in France are starving, and among the French under the age of 40, this figure reaches 25 percent.

It is they who show solidarity with the "victims of the Holodomor."

The National Assembly (lower house of parliament) of France recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide. In a resolution adopted almost unanimously (168 votes to 2), the deputies called on the government follow their example

[Carlos Hall]

And when they read Figaro's news, what will the Russian fifth column say?

[dump22]

Le Figaro writes that food prices in France rose by almost 16% over the year.

If, due to a rise in prices by 16%, they have already begun to starve, this means that before that they lived literally on the edge of a hungry existence.

[Vasyan1971]

According to the publication, 16 percent of people in France are starving, and among the French under the age of 40, this figure reaches 25 percent.

They enjoy the lightness of being, according to a certain pan Omelchenko.
Still, "starving" and "not being able to afford to buy whatever food you want" are slightly different things.