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Glimpsing Armageddon in Dutch cow culling
American Thinker ^ | 9 Dec, 2022 | John Klar

Posted on 12/09/2022 10:06:22 AM PST by MtnClimber

The radical leftists running the Netherlands are about to create a far-reaching famine.

A bureaucratic scheme to eliminate some 3,000 small farms in the Netherlands foreshadows increasing efforts by technocrats and global food interests to dominate food production at the expense of local culture, local economies, and family cows.

In the name of “saving the planet,” such grand delusions will doubtless destroy it, and humans in the bargain. Perhaps that is the plan.

If so, the Netherlands is the best place to start. The rationale is chiefly that the region is home to numerous fragile ecosystems that must be protected, notwithstanding that the Dutch government has for decades encouraged farms to increase production. “Closing farms” does not entail relocating their bovine denizens to idyllic preserves, but to abattoirs – they are to be slaughtered by the thousands to terminate their flatulence and enteric fermentation (burping).

But why Dutch cows? Because Dutch cows must be slaughtered to rescue insects for the diet of wild birds. Farms there produce 60% of the nitrogen deposits in conservation areas:

Excess nitrogen deposits in these so-called Natura 2000 areas are the proximate cause of the crisis. They cause some plants, like grass, to grow faster, but others to wither and die. ….That can wipe out entire ecosystems. When plants die, so do the bugs that feed on them, which in turns kills the birds and ducks that eat the bugs — and a major impetus for the whole Natura 2000 program in the 1990s was to protect European bird species.

This rash rush to ration ruminants is spurious. Once destroyed, Dutch agricultural economies and systems cannot be reclaimed, and there is no plan to replace either the lost income to the Netherlands, or the lost food supplies to the humans that “feed on them.”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Science
KEYWORDS: famine
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1 posted on 12/09/2022 10:06:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The latest plan from the Great Reset and Global Population Reduction enthusiasts.


2 posted on 12/09/2022 10:06:35 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Eat the birds.


3 posted on 12/09/2022 10:09:05 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: MtnClimber
This is one of the most ghastly left wing undertakings I've ever seen. Normal societies protect farms and their farmers. This is so disgusting. It doesn't make a hairs worth of difference on "global warming". Not a spec of difference. It is pure evil. The left want to get rid of livestock and animals. Atheists at work.

Eat the bugs.

4 posted on 12/09/2022 10:12:40 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: MtnClimber

Insane marxist environmental and social engineering schemes, all tied to their dystopian, cult-like ideology.

WE are the (neo) marxists now.


5 posted on 12/09/2022 10:12:58 AM PST by PGR88
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Cows are for tipping, culling will lead only to riots.


6 posted on 12/09/2022 10:15:10 AM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: MtnClimber

If we insist on sending arms to Europe for the defense of the West, it needs go to Dutch Farmers instead of Ukrainian Oligarchs ...


7 posted on 12/09/2022 10:16:14 AM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING !!!)
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To: MtnClimber

If 1/7 of Dutch exports are agricultural products, one could imagine the Dutch economy could collapse. I suppose the Climate Change Cultists will target tulips next.


8 posted on 12/09/2022 10:18:19 AM PST by The Great RJ
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To: MtnClimber

We have lots of insects here in Florida.


9 posted on 12/09/2022 10:20:03 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

The starvation caused by Stalin will look like child’s play -— while today’s “liberal” masses applaud.


10 posted on 12/09/2022 10:21:00 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

Are Italians still fond of eating small birds?


11 posted on 12/09/2022 10:21:07 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Isn't this Crimes Against Humanity?

Do the "Useful Idiots" (look it up) who show up to do the billionaire's dirty work have any clue about what they are going to inflict on humanity?

12 posted on 12/09/2022 10:25:33 AM PST by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. Never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Tell It Right

I hope a leader like Pinochet rises in one of those countries.


13 posted on 12/09/2022 10:26:17 AM PST by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as. )
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To: Brian Griffin

Had so many grasshoppers in Vegas that a Mallard took up residence in my swimming pool this fall just for the easy meals.


14 posted on 12/09/2022 10:31:21 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: Pajamajan

Sure... Outlaw petrochemicals and take the clothes out of their closets, carpet from their floors, computers, any home entertainment device.... Heat, light, water and power.

Might as well do without food up on their high rises.

The clever ones have outthought their selves.


15 posted on 12/09/2022 10:32:57 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: MtnClimber

Most agricultural Dutch land has been reclaimed form the sea, what is next, remaking the dykes to let the ocean flood back in?


16 posted on 12/09/2022 10:52:59 AM PST by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.f)
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To: MtnClimber

The left loves environmental impact studies. You can’t do anything without tons of costly environmental impact studies. Where are their impact and studies for what it is that they’re proposing. They should at least be able to forecast and show and offset, right? Why in the world do we allow things to be so lopsided?


17 posted on 12/09/2022 10:54:59 AM PST by 1malumprohibitum
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I hope a leader like Pinochet rises in one of those countries.


18 posted on 12/09/2022 10:59:57 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

(A bureaucratic scheme to eliminate some 3,000 small farms in the Netherlands)

And so, Sri Lanka will come to the Netherlands.

The spirit of antichrist is placing madness in the hearts of these reprobates crippling the food supply.


19 posted on 12/09/2022 11:04:02 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Tell It Right

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse cannot be far off.


20 posted on 12/09/2022 11:05:35 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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