No Farmers, No Food
Dutch farmers are fighting for their farms, their livelihoods, and their lives. For weeks they have blockaded highways, streets, food warehouses, and government buildings with their tractors, trucks, hay bales, and manure. The Dutch government — following the lead of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, the European Union, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — is imposing new “green” policies that the government acknowledges will put many farmers out of business. Under the pretext of protecting the environment and global “biodiversity,” farmers face fines and rigid restrictions on their use of fertilizer, and many are being ordered to drastically cull their cattle herds, by as much as 25 to 95 percent.
According to the BBC, “Dutch government proposals for tackling nitrogen emissions indicate a radical cut in livestock — they estimate 11,200 farms will have to close and another 17,600 farmers will have to significantly reduce their livestock.” Although the ongoing Dutch farmer protests are capturing the most media coverage, the European Union’s “net zero” emissions mandates are sparking massive tractor convoys and protests that are also rocking Italy, Germany, Spain, France, Poland, Ireland, and Belgium.
And now, Canada. In July, Justin Trudeau’s government, deciding it too would jump on the fashionable net-zero band wagon, proposed to order a 30-percent reduction in nitrogen fertilizer. Predictably — and understandably — this has caused Dutch-style protests by Canadian farmers, who charge that not only would these draconian nitrogen cuts devastate the country’s farm sector, but would also have dire consequences for food availability and food costs worldwide. Canadian farmers produce and export much of the world’s supply of wheat, oats, barley, flax seeds, peas, beans, lentils, soybeans, canola, beef, pork, and apples.
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