E.U. Rules Will Force Dutch To Ban Livestock Farming

[Kamaji]

E.U. Rules Will Force Dutch To Ban Livestock Farming

A 2019 court ruling has begun to force Dutch farmers out of business—by design.

BAYLEN LINNEKIN
1.21.2023

Dutch livestock farmers are increasingly outraged and bewildered over a court ruling that has begun to force thousands of them out of the business—by design.

In 2019, the High Council of the Netherlands, the country's supreme judicial authority, ruled* that a 2015 system of permitting new nitrogen-emitting projects by requiring nitrogen offsets failed to meet emission limits agreed to by all European Union members. The High Council ruling responded to the verdict in a 2016 lawsuit that Dutch environmental activists filed before the E.U. Court of Justice, in which the plaintiffs claimed that the Netherlands had failed to protect European Union Natura 2000 zones from nitrogen runoff.

The High Council stopped nearly all new construction permitting in the Netherlands–including farm expansions. Since then, Dutch farmers have been locked in a regulatory battle with the Dutch government over whether the country's incredibly dense animal husbandry sector can continue to be the largest meat exporter in the E.U.

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Source:  https://reason.com/2023/01/21/e-u-rules-will-force-dutch-to-ban-livestock-farming/?itm_source=parsely-api

[Kamaji]

How does one say "Soylent Green" in Dutch?

[mountaineer]

Insanity.

[roamer_1]

It occurs to me, and I submit, that it seems that famine on the whole is not so often a phenomena of weather as it is a tyranny that denies the means to bear fruit.

And it is coming here. to the lands of plenty where starvation is impossible.

It would be good to look to history... Before it is too late.

[bilo]

I wonder who the next country to get out of the EU will be? My money is on Poland.

Globalism is being destroyed by the globalists themselves and it is good thing!

[berdie]

I wonder who the next country to get out of the EU will be? My money is on Poland.

Globalism is being destroyed by the globalists themselves and it is good thing!

Very true. Sometimes problematic issues destroy themselves.

[Smokin Joe]

Considering a big part of Ukraine's prewar economy was from agriculture, maybe they're lucky they didn't join the EU.

Fewer trans figure skaters that way...

[GtHawk]

I wonder who the next country to get out of the EU will be? My money is on Poland.

Globalism is being destroyed by the globalists themselves and it is good thing!

The former Eastern Bloc nations should flip the EU the bird and form their own union, that would be the second time they threw of the yoke of socialism/communism if they did.

[Kamaji]

The former Eastern Bloc nations should flip the EU the bird and form their own union, that would be the second time they threw of the yoke of socialism/communism if they did.

[bilo]

The former Eastern Bloc nations should flip the EU the bird and form their own union, that would be the second time they threw of the yoke of socialism/communism if they did.

I think they will. Poland has committed to a big military build up. I believe they have an alliance with Ukraine and they are pushing for energy independence by building nuclear power plants.