Chips down Belgians count cost of betting big on potatoes
May 28, 2021
3 minutes
By Daniel Boffey FRAMERIES
The humble frite is revered in Belgium but, thanks to campaigners against a new mega-processing plant, the environmental and social costs of its mass production are being newly questioned at the highest levels of government.
For three years, residents in Frameries, a town in French-speaking Hainaut in the south-west of the country, have battled against the proposed construction of a €300m ($366m) factory, which it is
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