Posted on 07/12/2022 11:33:35 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
You might have heard about an online grocery distribution center called Picnic in the Netherlands burning to the ground {LINK}. The backstory of how the Picnic operation connects to the Dutch government is fascinating, and with context it looks like Picnic was targeted as part of the Dutch farmer protest.
In the Netherlands the government official who organized the regulations to take farmland from farmers and reduce their livestock is a politician named Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink {wiki link}. Mrs van der Wal-Zeggelink is the current Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy in the Dutch cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Minister Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink and Prime Minister Mark Rutte are climate activists, so it makes sense that the “Minister of Nitrogen Policy” would be the person who would attempt to reduce nitrogen by targeting the farmers. It is Mrs. van der Wal-Zeggelink who created the regulations that the farmers are protesting.
Now, stay with me… Christianne van der Wall-Zeggelink is married to Piet van der Wal, an heir to the wealth of the family who owns a supermarket chain called Boni. {citation} So, when Dutch farmers sell product to Boni they are directly funding the wealth of the government minister who seeks to destroy their livelihoods.
Additionally, when Dutch shoppers spend their money at the Boni supermarket they are funding the family of the government minister who is seeking to destroy the farmers who provide the food to the supermarkets. Do the Dutch farmer blockades of the supermarkets and distribution centers make more sense now?
Here is where it gets interesting…. The supermarket chain Boni is one of a small group of four big investors in the online supermarket chain Picnic. {citation} The van der Wal family was part of a group of investors in 2015 and 2019 who generated €450 million for the Picnic grocery operation.
Additionally, as part of the financial relationship, the Picnic distribution center buys their groceries at wholesale prices from Boni: “Picnic directly buys from an existing supermarket chain (Boni), which saves them the operational costs on that side” {2015, citation}.
Buying from Boni Supermarket or ordering online from Picnic home grocery delivery is essentially the same thing. Boni is a retail supermarket chain, and Picnic is a free home delivery service that sources their grocery distribution center inventory from Boni.
Additionally, Bill and Melinda Gates are big investors into Picnic {citation}: “As reported by the respected Dutch financial magazine Quote in September last year, [Picnic] raised €600 million (approximately $604 million) in an investment round, with the lion’s share coming from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust.” {link}
Summary so far: Nitrogen Policy Minister Christianne van der Wal-Zeggelink is married to the ultra-wealthy family who own the Supermarket chain Boni. Together with other ‘climate change’ investors including Bill and Melinda Gates, Boni funds online supermarket Picnic. Sales from Picnic or Boni directly increase the wealth of the Dutch Nitrogen Policy Minister. Picnic also sells the engineered food that Bill Gates promotes. The current owner and CEO of Picnic is a man named Michiel Muller. Mr. Muller is a Dutch entrepreneur, climate change activist and self-described visionary, who intends to “change the entire food system, eliminate waste” and be in line with sustainable energy goals and the climate change agenda [Video citation @14:21].
Additionally, a great deal of the money from the investment rounds is going toward building a robotic warehouse and automated Picnic distribution center which aligns with the free online grocery ordering system. {another citation}
With all of these associations, business interests and financial aspects in mind, Dutch Nitrogen Minister Christianne van der Wall-Zeggelink has a direct financial conflict-of-interest in the advancement of sustainable supermarket and online grocery operations. Specifically, those operators who are the beneficiaries of not only her nitrogen elimination regulation, but also the direct investment from her family.
It is also not surprising that Dutch farmers would seek to block the retail supermarkets and distribution centers of the companies that are directly connected to the business interests of Dutch politicians.
Dutch farmers protest: 'They're stealing Dutch farmers' land' | Eva Vaardingerbroek
Other photo's at the orignal link.
Not my monkey, not my circus, ami right?
Related video
‘Broad sense of frustration, anger, despair’: Dutch farmers protest against nitrogen cuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lleLDOO-Jk
This is our fight. Farmers are on the front-lines in the fight against Globalism.
No. This is happening in many places in the world. Because of Leaders who have sold out to the WEF “Great Reset”.
They want us all pennyless, hungary and cold where we will do everything they want.
For get that crap. Pound sand.
You are right, FreshPrince.
What do you think these election thieves have planned here?
Yep. And TPTB want global control of the food supply.
Just watching this. Excellent so far.
You know I have to agree and you also must know it is happening to us already, but is being largely missed due to degrees of scale masking the shenanigans. Pointing to meat packing and other food production facilities being torched.
“Not my monkey, not my circus, ami right”?
You’ll realize it is your circus and you won’t like the misery that woke you up to that fact.
Gates and his fake meat... soon to be sold at picnic/boni. This is direct war on farmers.
All part of Agenda 21 and the Great Reset....
Communism always goes after the means of food production first. The average communist is an academic who despises the rural, food-producing class. If they can’t foster an atmosphere of rebellion and distrust of city-dwellers within the rural class, they will attack the food distribution and storage centers. We see that this has been happening all over the globe, including the USA.
Thousands of cattle dying. Millions of poultry dead. Food production centers going up in flames: “No one knows why.”
They’re closer to socialist takeover in the Netherlands, so the destruction of the agricultural class is more in-your-face.
Let’s work and especially pray for the socialist Democrat party to be lawfully and peacefully turned out on the street to find new jobs in November, 2022 and that this will be the start of improvement. Also pray that the average voter manages to wise up before 2024, so that s/he can see what a party of dreck and damage the Democrats have turned into.
We have already had shortages: Beef, baby food, feminine hygiene products, toilet paper, pet food - I almost never shop but Mr K informs me that aspirin was just not even available for a while and now it’s ungodly expensive. No matter how the election turns out, things are going to continue to slide for a time before stabilization begins. If food shortages are the worst thing we have to deal with before this starts to improve, we will be lucky.
What happens in Dutchy land is not my concern.
At least thats what I hear being said about Ukraine...
What happens in both places concerns us all.
Very evil Globalists are running the show and they certainly don’t have our best interests at heart. We are useless eaters to them.
“This is our fight. Farmers are on the front-lines in the fight against Globalism.”
Yes it is our fight. I hope the Dutch farmers win, but I doubt they will.
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Why is nobody discussing the UK government on their website encouraging UK Farmers to leave or Retire with cash incentives ?
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