THOUGHTS ▶▶▶ The next city state


would fit 3.5 times into Iowa, yet it houses over five times as many people (17.3 million vs 3.2 million). As it’s been one of the world’s most densely populated countries for centuries, the country takes pride in its tradition of finding common ground before planning meticulously.


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Yet that is about to change. The Netherlands also houses 12 million pigs, 3.8 million cows and almost 17 million chickens. Of late, Dutch politicians have started asking why there have to be so many farm animals. The question is related to high levels of nitrogen deposition, said to be at the expense of biodiversity; a shortage of available houses


driving prices sky-high; and the presence of an increasingly vocal group of vegetarian and vegan consumers. In March, parliamentary elections confirmed the trend. One of the centrist parties, attracting many city folk, celebrated strong growth in votes as one of their promises was to reduce the livestock population by half. What is certain is that pleas


for agricultural reform are here to stay in the Netherlands. The bad news is, it’s the city people having the strongest say. Vincent ter Beek, editor Pig Progress


hose of you who paid attention to history classes will be familiar with the concept of city states. In this concept from ancient Greece, large cities like Athens or Sparta independently ruled over the sur- rounding countryside. Singapore is being considered a modern city state. It occurred to me that my native Netherlands is the next city state in the making. It terms of area, it


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