Posted on 07/17/2022 7:00:49 AM PDT by george76
I can’t run a farm on 5 percent’..
In the Netherlands, dairy farmer Martin Neppelenbroek is near the end of the line.
New environmental regulations will require him to slash his livestock numbers by 95 percent. He thinks he will have to sell his family farm.
“I can’t run a farm on 5 percent. For me, it’s over and done with,” he said in a July 7 interview with The Epoch Times.
“In view of the regulations, I can’t sell it to anybody. Nobody wants to buy it. [But] the government wants to buy it. And that’s why they [have] those regulations, I think.”
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Neppelenbroek made the remarks while speaking with Roman Balmakov, host of “Facts Matter” on EpochTV, during Balmakov’s recent trip to the Netherlands.
Neppelenbroek pointed out that not all farmers are required to get rid of so many of their cattle.
People living further from areas protected under Natura 2000, a European Union (EU) agreement for species and habitat preservation, can own more cattle.
That’s because the Dutch government’s regulations on nitrogen oxides and ammonia emissions are tied to sites’ proximity to those protected areas.
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Farmers, truckers, and others across the Netherlands have led nationwide protests against that vision, partly spurred by a June 10 national and area-specific plan for curtailing nitrogen greenhouse gas emissions.
There’s a sword of Damocles hanging over them: the possibility of compulsory seizure of property by the government.
NOS Nieuws reported that Christianne van der Wal, the country’s minister of nature and nitrogen policy, has not ruled out expropriating land from uncooperative farmers.
According to a report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agriculture Service, the Dutch government has said its approach means “there is not a future for all [Dutch] farmers.”
For now, Neppelenbroek’s 70-acre-plus property is home to roughly 130 milking cows. It’s been in his family for half a century.
“I’m the second generation,” he said, adding that many farms in the Netherlands have been in families for much longer.
The Netherlands punches well above its weight in agriculture. The small, coastal country is one of the world’s top 10 food exporters.
“When you have not a lot of space, you have to use it as effectively as possible,” Neppelenbroek said.
“It’s a delta, and the climate is not too hot, not too cold. It’s an ideal place to grow.”
Cows, Neppelenbroek acknowledged, produce lots of ammonia through their bodily waste.
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Yet, “you can’t blame just one small group in your country for polluting the environment,” he said, adding that farmers feel they’re being overburdened.
Closing Dutch farms will just necessitate food imports from elsewhere, he argued.
He noted that cow manure can benefit soil health—certainly more so than the synthetic fertilizers that would need to replace it.
Cows can also be fed leftovers that people won’t eat: “They can get rid of a lot of stuff we can’t use as humans and put it into high-quality food,” he said.
Like many others in the Netherlands, he suspects the government wants to use the land that it takes to build housing.
This makes me furious.
But you can be real sure that the elites wont be bothered with these rules.
The Dutch will do what Stalin did - nationalize all farms and call them ‘collectives’.
> But you can be real sure that the elites wont be bothered with these rules. <
And they will still get their prime cuts of beef for dinner.
You and I, not so much.
The envoronmental nutters could off themselves and stop personally harming nature ... you know, if they were serious about their beliefs.
Would it be better to present it as “Dutch farmer retains 5% of his cattle!” You know, put a positive spin on it. 😵💫🐎💩🤬
Well they care, just not THAT much.
Nor will they be deprived of beef, milk, etc.
All this will do is raise beef and milk prices to the point
a lot of folks won’t be able to afford either.
I’m seeing these machines that supposedly make milk out of
nuts.
It would be comical if it wasn’t so damn infuriating.
Nothing short of communism. Call it what it is.
Historically, food is a weapon.
The Dutch will sell it to a multinational that happens to be nearly 100% owned by the billionaire class.
Communism is out and Oligarchism is in.
And they call it communism. 😐
"You can vote yourself into socialism..."
And how was it that you got yourself out?
I think the time is fast approaching around the world.
Environmentalists are masters of telling others how to live for the sake of the world but not so much for themselves.
They need to address their ass backwards plan if they intend to do what they say the want to get accomplish.
We'll collectivize ours, too - but they will be called "Gates-Amazon-Whole Foods Sustainable Nutrient Parks" and all of the city-dwelling CNN viewers will cheer them on. :)
Its bizarre on the face of it - little Netherlands is one of the top onion exporters to Africa, and one of the top pork exporters to China. You would think they would play to their strengths.
But the woke, globohomo elites will only focus on their own cult-religion and ideology and interests.
And on the more practical side, the government wants the valuable land closer to cities - to build cheap housing for migrants.
They do intend to deal with it. It’s their first commandment.
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
fighting to the shedding of someone else’s blood
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