Jos Ubels, Vice-President of the Dutch Farmers Defense Force outlined to Fox News that the Dutch government’s strict enforcement of “nitrogen policy” (a euphemism for reducing emissions associated with cattle to an impossible level without drastically shrinking livestock, by at least 50% by 2030 according to AP), will lead to disaster. Ubels points to the fakery of all this, unproven “data” and the allegation that cow emissions will interact with various other gasses in the atmosphere to contribute to (alleged) global warming or so-called anthropogenic climate change. “They push our levels down to a minimum,” Ubels said. “They try to regulate everything down.”
The FDF and others began mass protests of farmers and others in 2019.
Ubels said that initially farmers were willing to work with the government to cut emissions by innovative solutions; but “our government says, no, we just want fewer animals. We want smaller farms.” When the government was at a standstill, environmentalist organizations won a court case against the government, which meant they had to enforce very strict nitrogen laws, under threat of more green lawsuits.
“Family farmers will be forced to sell their farms to and sign a pledge not to farm anywhere else in Europe!” Ubels feels that farming has been “picked on” more than the transportation industry—especially at the crackdown’s beginning in 2019. The farming regulations have implications for global food supply, he said. The Netherlands is the No. 2 global exporter of agricultural products. We cannot reduce the amount of food we produce as long as we have the number of people that we have in the world. The government claims “nature is declining” and blames the farmers. There is no proof of this.
