{"id":266378,"date":"2023-03-15T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266378"},"modified":"2023-03-17T08:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T08:00:15","slug":"10000-dutch-farmers-protest-govts-crippling-nitrogen-emissions-target-in-the-hague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266378","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Dutch Farmers Protest Govt\u2019s Crippling Nitrogen Emissions Target In The Hague"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Thomas Brooke &#8212; Activist Post March 14, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em><strong>Protesters claim the Dutch government is lying about the extent of the emissions problem in order to grab privately owned land\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Dutch farmers protested on Saturday against the government\u2019s policies to reduce nitrogen emissions, warning they will put farms out of business and affect food production.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of tractors from across the Netherlands could be seen driving to the event in The Hague ahead of regional elections this week, and more than 10,000 farmers were in attendance, according to the Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters accused the Dutch government of forcing farmers off of privately owned land in order to appease Brussels, and carried banners reading \u201cNo farmers, no food\u201d and \u201cThere is no nitrogen \u2018problem.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tens of thousands of people turned up for the Dutch farmers protest.<\/p>\n<p>Stand for freedom. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lAUW1QuqhV\">pic.twitter.com\/lAUW1QuqhV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterSweden7\/status\/1634559350252396544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cWe are fighting against a corrupt and unjust government,\u201d <\/em><\/strong>Eva Vlaardingerbroek, a prominent campaigner in defense of the farmers, told attendees. She spoke of a government that \u201cdrives our farmers from their land\u201d and which has \u201cturned on its own population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor centuries, our farmers have produced food for millions of people worldwide. And instead of what those liars in The Hague claim, they have done so in a responsible and sustainable way.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1Our farmers are fighting against the worst kind of injustice: a government that has turned on its own people.<\/p>\n<p>The government created a lie to rob our farmers of their land. But we won\u2019t let it happen. Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DutchFarmers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DutchFarmers<\/a> are an example to the world.<\/p>\n<p>My speech with \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 subtitles. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QYiFbkR2zM\">pic.twitter.com\/QYiFbkR2zM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvaVlaar\/status\/1634644294182092801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cBut our cabinet doesn\u2019t care about nature. They have simply created a lie to steal our farmers\u2019 land,\u201d <\/em><\/strong>she added.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Rutte\u2019s administration has vowed to take radical action to meet its ambitious target of halving the country\u2019s nitrogen emissions by 2030, and has identified the country\u2019s large agriculture sector as being the main culprit due to its large livestock count and use of fertilizers.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the government announced plans to reduce livestock numbers by a third, while farmers have also been told their land could be subject to compulsory buyouts.<\/p>\n<p>Agricultural workers have staged several demonstrations against the government policy, blocking motorways and supermarket distribution centers in mass protests last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThese reductions are so severe that those rural communities will be totally devastated economically,\u201d <\/em><\/strong>said Sander van Diepen, a spokesperson for the Dutch agricultural and horticultural association, LTO Nederland, in June last year.<\/p>\n<p>Henk Staghouwer, the former Dutch agriculture minister appointed to see through the plans by Mark Rutte,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/dutch-agriculture-minister-resigns-amid-farmers-protests-admits-he-wasnt-right-person-for-the-job\/\">resigned in September last year after a tumultuous summer fraught with mass demonstrations<\/a>, admitting that upon reflection he was not \u201cthe right person to oversee the tasks in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regional elections for the Dutch Senate are scheduled to take place on March 15.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/netherlands\/10000-dutch-farmers-protest-governments-crippling-nitrogen-emissions-target-in-the-hague\/\">Remix News<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/10000-dutch-farmers-protest-govts-crippling-nitrogen-emissions-target-hague\">ZeroHedge<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=5719077\">Become a Patron!<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Or support us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/activist-post\">SubscribeStar<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Donate cryptocurrency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/support\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/2023\/03\/10000-dutch-farmers-protest-govts-crippling-nitrogen-emissions-target-in-the-hague.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than ten thousand Dutch farmers and their supporters gathered in the Hague last weekend to protest government policies on nitrogen emissions, which they claim is a pretext to grab farmland <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":266380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266379,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266378\/revisions\/266379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}