btbg wrote:
You live in a country that is trying to force 100s of farmers to sell their farms to the government "voluntarily". Of course then the government says that if they don't sell voluntarily they will take the land.
Has it ever occurred to you that if we shut farmers down we all starve? And you worry about Richard posting nonsense. What do you call the nonsense that your country is engaging in?
Yes because he's making noise and is repeating himself on and on. He's a sad troll...
I live in a country with a very dense population.
I live in a very small country, 237 times smaller than the USA.
But I also live in a country that is the World’s Second Largest Food Exporter!!!The farmers in The Netherlands have known for 40 years that they need to change. The agricultural lobby, the farmers and the Rabobank (Hollands biggest Bank) have caused the current situation, where court now has decided that change need to happen one way or the other.
Do you think it's normal that the soil where we grow food is dead, no life in the soil whatsoever because of all the toxic and chemical goods injected and sprayed over it?
Little nature that we have is suffering and decreasing, 18 million people have virtually nowhere to go to relax in their free time. We produce far too much food and fly this food around the world against a price that's far too low, but also far too high when it comes to pollution.
A part of the famers in some area's have to change their way of farming. A very decent amount of farmers already switched to a more sustainable way of farming. The other option is to sell their farms to the government at 120 % of the current value.
Some will stop voluntary, some will change and some will be seized farming.
This is a challenge but also a possibility for farmers abroad.
Why should the Netherlands produce food for the rest of the world and at the same time put enormous pressure on the environment?
We need to build homes for young people and refugees although this is environmentally suicide combined with the stress that farmers are causing with their way of farming.
The world won't starve when Dutch farmers are reducing production. Most of it is luxury food or meat that third world countries can't even afford. Failing production In Ukraine is a bigger threat...
A 40 year battle is finally coming to an end....