PHOTO: ANP


PHOTO: ANP


BIGGER PICTURE ▶▶▶ Hot summer


About 60,000 farmers with 20,000 tractors gathered at the kick-off protest in the Dutch municipality of Barneveld earlier this summer. It was the start of a long hot summer with na- tionwide protests, blockades and stunts organised to register widespread opposition to the government’s nitrogen reduction plans. According to the models used by legislators, nitro- gen emissions have to be reduced – ranging from 12% to as much as 95%, depending on the location – to protect vulnerable areas of nature. It sees quick gains can be made by reducing the livestock sector by up to 50%. Hence the strong reaction of the agricultural community. Farmers accuse the government of having tunnel vision based on a theoretical emissions model, solely focusing on agriculture, and ignoring nitrogen emissions from industry, avia- tion, traffic and neighbouring countries. Although most protests were of a peaceful nature, some took on a more grim character. With the government and farmers at loggerheads, there appears to be little common ground for negotiation.


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▶ POULTRY WORLD | No. 6, 2022


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