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I’ve been seeing these farmer’s protests for a while, but as an outsider I just assumed they were protesting for better working conditions or wages, is it really just a corporate tantrum?
It’s mostly because the government and the farmers have been pushing the nitrogen problem forward for decades now. The farmers are the biggest producer of nitrogen because of their livestock. The nitrogen is now fucking up nature and other sectors that have nitrogen limits (construction of houses is postponed for this reason, and we have a shortage of houses).
For years is has been the ‘problem of the next government’ and now it reached its max. As a result, many farmers now have to cut their amount of livestock in half in order to get below nitrogen limits. This influences their profit and now they’re mad (while they could have made changes for decades now). As a result, they are now protesting and terrorizing. Most of the farmers are exporting their stuff so it’s not like we need them for our own food.
The protests are financially backed by several big agricultural firms. It’s not a left wing, better workers’ conditions type of protest. It’s about capitalists losing their profits and getting mad.
This is the general story behind it, basically.
thank you for the info, as someone who has been exposed to so many farmer’s movements I sometimes mix them up.
True, there are many based farmers protests going on as well At first I had sympathy for the farmers here as well when they started protesting years ago. But a somewhat justified protest quickly turned to terrorism in the name of corporate profit. For decades profits were the only thing that mattered to them and now they and the government are fucked. And the companies behind them are showing a textbook case of how companies turn to fascism in order to secure profits.