156. Opposing Views: Dutch Farm Crisis | Michael Yon & Nick Ottens

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Mikhaila Peterson

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 94 minutes

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This episode was sponsored by: —Goldco. Visit http://mplikesgold.com/ to get up to $10,000 dollars in free silver when you open a qualifying account. —Betterfed Beef. Visit https://betterfedbeef.com/ and use code MP at checkout to get 20% off your first order of tender certified ONYA beef today. In this episode of the Opposing Views series, I spoke with Nick Ottens and Michael Yon about the Dutch Farming Crisis. We discussed the vastly differing views about what’s really going on behind the crisis. Nick Ottens is a Dutch journalist who writes about American and European politics for the Atlantic Sentinel and Wynia's Week. Ottens worked on agriculture and food for an American non-profit, and He’s a member of the Netherlands’ Liberal Party, VVD, and the Liberal Green network. Michael Yon is America’s most experienced combat correspondent. Yon has traveled and worked for more than half of his life overseas, in 83 countries, documenting events that include various wars and conflicts. He’s written three books in English about the War in Iraq, and three books in Japanese about the Chinese Information War. If you enjoyed this conversation, be sure to subscribe! —Links— Follow Nick Ottens On: The Atlantic Sentinel: https://atlanticsentinel.com/ Wynia's Week: https://www.wyniasweek.nl/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/NickOttens Substack: https://atlanticsentinel.substack.com/ Follow Michael Yon On: Locals: https://michaelyon.locals.com/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MichaelYon Twitter: https://twitter.com/Michael_Yon Telegram: https://t.me/michaelyon Gab: https://gab.com/Michael_Yon Substack: https://michaelyon.substack.com/ _____________ #dutchfarmersprotest #dutchfarmers #netherlands #mikhailapeterson #nickottens #michaelyon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	you know, they don't talk about nitrogen in the other countries, by the way, just Netherlands,
0:04.6	you know, with all these French, they franchise these, you know, this attack is happening globally.
0:12.0	So the world economic forum makes a different menu for each country. Here, it's an nitrogen,
0:17.7	right? But they don't even talk about nitrogen next door in Germany. You know, it's only here,
0:22.2	and again, why would you take some of the most efficient farmers in the world with not the most
0:27.4	efficient farmers in the world and knock out their farms and then get somebody else to do this,
0:33.6	to create less food with more chemicals. See, it doesn't make any sense. It's just nonsense.
0:39.2	Do you think it's reasonable to put such a large exporter of meat under the same
0:44.4	emission laws as other countries in Europe? Well, yeah, that's what some of the farmers and some
0:51.2	of the meat industry are arguing, saying we have to follow the same strict regulations, but
0:56.7	we produce so much more and we have so much less space. Is it really fair? Well, we should have
1:03.9	argued that 30 years ago when we were making your rules. Like, we made this agreement and we haven't
1:08.8	kept our word to our other European partners for 30 years. So now, if we go back to Brussels and
1:15.1	argue for leniency, then the European Commission will say no. Like, we haven't forced you to take action,
1:21.4	but we're also not going to make the rules. We do so now.
1:31.6	Welcome to episode 156 of the Michaela Peterson podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson.
1:36.8	This is an episode of opposing views where I speak with individuals on opposite sides of a contentious
1:42.7	issue. This episode discussed the Dutch farming crisis and the origins behind it. This is a topic
1:50.0	everyone should be paying attention to. It isn't an isolated incident. I interviewed Nick
1:55.6	Ottens, a Dutch political writer for the Atlantic Sentinel, and Michael Yon, a journalist and America's
2:02.1	most experienced combat correspondent. We discussed two completely different views about what started the
2:08.0	Dutch farmers protests, what the Dutch farmers are trying to achieve, the global context of the crisis,
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