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The government of the Netherlands seems to be willing to starve Europe to browbeat Dutch farmers about climate change, and American corporate media outlets are largely ignoring it.
The Netherlands is demanding its farmers drastically reduce their herds of livestock in order to eliminate 50 percent of the nation’s nitrogen pollution by 2030.
That leaves just eight years for farmers, whose livelihoods revolve around cultivating land and raising animals, to figure out how they can keep supplying the continent with food.
Under the new “green” restrictions, many generational farmers say that they risk bankruptcy or being forced out of the industry altogether.
Even the government has admitted that “The honest message … is that not all farmers can continue their business.”
That’s why, for more than a month now, large numbers of these Dutch farmers have protested government policies forcing them to wreak havoc on the nation’s agricultural industry.
A disruption like this, to a nation that is the “largest exporter of meat in Europe and the second largest exporter of food overall after the United States,” will also likely exacerbate food shortages caused by the Ukraine-Russia war throughout the European Union and other parts of the world.
Despite the effects of the Dutch farmer protests on not just the global food supply but global climate policies, the issue has received little to no attention from corporate U.S. press outlets.
Aside from a couple of general rundown articles from Reuters and ABC News, the American media has failed to report on the Dutch farmer’s concerns in any depth, much less address the implications the protests, and the climate policies that triggered them, have for the Netherlands and the rest of the world.
The media’s scant coverage of the protests certainly isn’t on the front pages or during prime time.
It’s about time that the policymakers and their aides were told that they must give up two weeks of their annual vacation and go live and work on a farm. A little bit of ‘hands-on’ education might do them a world of good.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/1...they-hurt-its-climate-fearmongering-campaign/
The government of the Netherlands seems to be willing to starve Europe to browbeat Dutch farmers about climate change, and American corporate media outlets are largely ignoring it.
The Netherlands is demanding its farmers drastically reduce their herds of livestock in order to eliminate 50 percent of the nation’s nitrogen pollution by 2030.
That leaves just eight years for farmers, whose livelihoods revolve around cultivating land and raising animals, to figure out how they can keep supplying the continent with food.
Under the new “green” restrictions, many generational farmers say that they risk bankruptcy or being forced out of the industry altogether.
Even the government has admitted that “The honest message … is that not all farmers can continue their business.”
That’s why, for more than a month now, large numbers of these Dutch farmers have protested government policies forcing them to wreak havoc on the nation’s agricultural industry.
A disruption like this, to a nation that is the “largest exporter of meat in Europe and the second largest exporter of food overall after the United States,” will also likely exacerbate food shortages caused by the Ukraine-Russia war throughout the European Union and other parts of the world.
Despite the effects of the Dutch farmer protests on not just the global food supply but global climate policies, the issue has received little to no attention from corporate U.S. press outlets.
Aside from a couple of general rundown articles from Reuters and ABC News, the American media has failed to report on the Dutch farmer’s concerns in any depth, much less address the implications the protests, and the climate policies that triggered them, have for the Netherlands and the rest of the world.
The media’s scant coverage of the protests certainly isn’t on the front pages or during prime time.
It’s about time that the policymakers and their aides were told that they must give up two weeks of their annual vacation and go live and work on a farm. A little bit of ‘hands-on’ education might do them a world of good.
https://thefederalist.com/2022/07/1...they-hurt-its-climate-fearmongering-campaign/
....till the cows come home as it were