Posted on 11/29/2022 4:04:11 AM PST by TigerClaws
The Dutch government has unveiled a €25bn (£21bn) plan to radically reduce the number of livestock in the country as it struggles to contain an overload of animal manure.
A deal to buy out farmers to try to reduce levels of nitrogen pollution in the country had been mooted for some time, and was finally confirmed after the agreement of a new coalition government in the Netherlands earlier this week.
But the plan, the first of its kind in the world, faces a huge backlash from farmers who have staged big street protests in recent years over the prospect of tough regulation and farmer buyouts. They fear permanent damage to food production in the country if too many farmers are forced to quit.
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“We don’t want the system to collapse,” said Utrecht dairy farmer Marije Klever, from the Dutch young farmers’ union. She said farmers would oppose any nonvoluntary measures.
“I am a land owner, so a critical question is whether the government are allowed to push farmers out of the land. It can’t be The Hague telling farmers they must go, you need an agreement.”
While being lauded internationally as the “tiny country that feeds the world” and the continent’s biggest meat exporter, the Netherlands has been struggling at home with a pollution crisis caused by an excess of farm animals.
“We can’t be the tiny country that feeds the world if we shit ourselves,” said MP Tjeerd de Groot, from the Democrats 66 party, which is part of the coalition government in the Netherlands.
The country has the highest density of livestock in Europe – more than four times that of the UK or France – with more than 100 million cattle, chickens and pigs in total.
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Related article from The Telegraph:
While clothes have become an average of 9,4 percent expensive over the past year, CBS reports that food prices have risen by a whopping 14 percent, explaining that this is largely due to the rising prices of bread, grains, and dairy products.
Dutch inflation rate significantly higher than European average
While the inflation figures published by CBS using the CPI method are high, they remain slightly lower than the figures published by Eurostat at the end of October. Using the HICP method, the European statistics office calculated that inflation in the Netherlands fell from 17,1 percent in September to 16,8 percent in October.
Inflation remains high across the continent, although the Dutch figures are higher than the EU average. According to Eurostat, inflation in the Eurozone rose from 9,9 percent in September 2022 to 10,7 percent last month.
“Hmm. I just read an article yesterday we should all try eating bugs. Coincidence?”
Trying implies the option of NOT doing it. Soon we won’t be given that option.
This is great for animals. Except maybe mice and bugs. Lab grown isn’t only meat.
It isn’t just meat.
It’s soylent meat.
This sounds more like a plan to reduce 'netherlanders' ( yea I know).
It seems that the biggest manure problem there is within their government.
It seems an abundance of manure could be sold?
If you're going to murder 6 billion people by 2030, this is a good start.
People would have to rise up and eject these maniacs to survive this insanity.
Normalcy bias is their protection.
Governments are reducing both the energy supply and the food supply of their own people. We can argue about why but it’s definitely happening.
Yes, it does.
Nitrogen pollution of waterways is a real problem. One way to avoid it is to get the excess fertilizer, whether natural (manure) or synthetic, off the land, and relocate it to places where more fertilizer is needed.
With the war on natural gas (fertilizer) one would think that market would make the Dutch rich.
“...the world’s second largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the United States”
‘Cutting-edge tech made this tiny country a major exporter of food’
https://archive.ph/myMbL#selection-147.0-147.65
System of consequences.
You tell a dairy farmer that his 300 head of cattle have to be lessened...because he can’t use more than x-amount of fertilizer on the soil...to produce hay or grain for the cattle. The number comes down to 180 head. The farmer tries to figure how his debt situation relates to 120 cattle lost to the farm. In the end...he can’t pay the bank or operate for a profit. The farm and dairy...cannot continue.
So he leaves...selling for one-third the value of farm land. Where he goes? Probably Poland or eastern Europe. He takes his cattle and equipment with him.
The cheese and milk industry in the Netherlands? Within five years...it’s cut in half, and premier brands only exist by moving to Poland. Job market? 7-percent unemployment will be normal, and unexplainable by the government figures.
By 2030, Netherlands will probably collapse around a quarter of it’s agricultural industry.
The US isn’t the only country afflicted with a genocidal Deep State.
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