Dutch Farmers Protest Netherlands’ National Program to Reduce Nitrogen Emissions: ‘We Are Food Producers, Not Pollution Producers’

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1. They had my support, mostly, I still saw the issue, but could sympathise with those about to lose some of their land.

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   Then they decided to block distribution centres, and I say fuck em. You do not get to force other companies to join your protest, you do not get to block food, medicine and any form of supply that you do not make, as part of your protest.

   It was in this action that I asked myself, would these farmers stand in solidarity with me, well, probably not, considering they are willing to block our fucking food, when they had public support.

   So now, they have lost my support, through their own actions and nothing else.

2. They’re both.

3. You’re polluters though. Agriculture is the second largest producer of greenhouse gasses after the energy sector. So yeah, you are.

   A bit less now if you’ve managed to block motorways and people have turned off their cars.

4. The irony of driving hundreds of tractors down the freeway while claiming not to be pollution producers is boggling.

5. Seems they are hell bent on bleeding what support they had.

   Moronic way to go about their grievances.

6. If they keep on ruining the soil, their children won’t be farmers.

7. ehh… potato, potato

8. They’re food producers for other countries: more than 60% of their production is exported.

9. Can someone explain this better: does the government want to reduce the use of animal waste products for land fertilisation? If so, what alternatives do they think that territories can come up with to dispose of those products?

10. We don’t need food! We need less emissions!