Brass Tacks: Dutch Government Targets 3,000 Farmers
Pardon My American
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🗓️ 29 November 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This coming from the Daily Color, the Dutch government, to seize and close 3,000 farms to comply with the EU environmental rules. |
| 0:10.6 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:13.2 | As with most articles, maybe there's more to this than MECI, but let's read what they have to say here. |
| 0:18.5 | The Dutch government is planning to buy and close down up to 3,000 farms near environmentally |
| 0:23.3 | sensitive areas to be in compliance with the EU environmental rules. |
| 0:27.9 | It's come after farmer protests erupted this summer following a government plan to reduce |
| 0:32.3 | nitrogen emissions by 50% in by what, 2030. |
| 0:37.5 | The New York Times reported farmers believe the measure unfairly targeted the agriculture by 50% in by what, 2030? Yeah. |
| 0:42.1 | The New York Times reported farmers believe the measure unfairly targeted the agricultural sector, |
| 0:45.5 | which is responsible for the largest portion of nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands. |
| 0:49.1 | This is bizarre to me. |
| 0:49.7 | That's weird. |
| 0:51.9 | We've actually seen this a little bit. |
| 0:54.5 | Well, I shouldn't say we've seen it. |
| 1:02.1 | We've heard some rumors that there were people being bought out in the States to not produce certain things. Now, I don't know. |
| 1:04.1 | I haven't seen the hard evidence behind that. |
| 1:07.5 | But we saw rising prices. |
| 1:09.6 | Maybe people were trying to use that as like, that's why it's so expensive. |
| 1:13.6 | Because you never know. |
| 1:14.4 | Like both sides propaganda stuff, I mean, quite frequently. |
| 1:17.7 | And you go up and close down 3,000 farms. |
| 1:20.5 | That's going to cause all kinds of different problems. |
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