In the Netherlands, the political establishment is reeling from the victory of the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB) in the recent provincial elections – an extraordinary result for an anti-establishment party that was formed just over three years ago, says Thomas Fazi in UnHerd. He has written an insightful piece on the sinister global agenda that the farmers are pushing back against. Here’s an excerpt.
The BBB grew out of the mass demonstrations against the Dutch Government’s proposal to cut nitrogen emissions by 50% in the country’s farming sector by 2030 — a target designed to comply with the European Union’s emission-reduction rules. While large farming companies have the means to meet these goals — by using less nitrogen fertiliser and reducing the number of their livestock — smaller, often family-owned farms would be forced to sell or shutter. Indeed, according to a heavily redacted European Commission document, this is precisely the strategy’s goal: “extensifying agriculture, notably through buying out or terminating farms, with the aim of reducing livestock”; this would “first be on a voluntary basis, but mandatory buyout is not excluded if necessary”.
It is no surprise, then, that the plans sparked massive protests by farmers, who see it as a direct attack on their livelihoods, or that the BBB’s slogan — “No Farms, No Food” — clearly resonated with voters. But aside from concerns about the impact of the measure on the country’s food security, and on a centuries-old rural way of life integral to Dutch national identity, the rationale behind this drastic measure is also questionable. Agriculture currently accounts for almost half of the country’s output of carbon dioxide, yet the Netherlands is responsible for less than 0.4% of the world’s emissions. No wonder many Dutch fail to see how such negligible returns justify the complete overhaul of the country’s farming sector, which is already considered one of the most sustainable in the world: over the past two decades, water dependence for key crops has been reduced by as much as 90%, and the use of chemical pesticides in greenhouses has been almost completely eliminated.
Farmers also point out that the consequences of the nitrogen cut would extend well beyond the Netherlands. The country, after all, is Europe’s largest exporter of meat and the second-largest agricultural exporter in the world, just behind the United States — in other words, the plan would cause food exports to collapse at a time when the world is already facing a food and resource shortage. We already know what this might look like. A similar ban on nitrogen fertiliser was conducted in Sri Lanka last year, with disastrous consequences: it caused an artificial food shortage that plunged nearly two million Sri Lankans into poverty, leading to an uprising that toppled the government.
Given the irrational nature of the policy, many protesting farmers believe it can’t simply be blamed on the urbanite ‘green elites’ currently running the Dutch Government. They suggest one of the underlying reasons for the move is to squeeze small farmers from the market, allowing them to be bought out by multinational agribusiness giants who recognise the immense value of the country’s land — not only is it highly fertile, but it is also strategically located with easy access to the north Atlantic coast (Rotterdam is the largest port in Europe). They also point out that prime minister Rutte is an Agenda Contributor of the World Economic Forum, which is well known for being corporate-driven, while his finance minister and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment are also tied to the body.
The struggle playing out in the Netherlands would seem to be part of a much bigger game that seeks to “reset” the international food system. Similar measures are currently being introduced or considered in several other European countries, including Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Britain (where the Government is encouraging traditional farmers to leave the industry to free up land for new “sustainable” farmers). As the second-largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, after the energy sector, agriculture has naturally ended up in the crosshairs of Net Zero advocates — that is, virtually all major international and global organisations. The solution, we are told, is ‘sustainable agriculture’ — one of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which form its ‘Agenda 2030‘.
This issue has now been pushed to the top of the global agenda. Last November’s G20 meeting in Bali called for “an accelerated transformation towards sustainable and resilient agriculture and food systems and supply chains” to “ensure that food systems better contribute to adaptation and mitigation to climate change”. Just a few days later, in Egypt, the COP27 annual Green Agenda Climate Summit launched its initiative aimed at promoting “a shift towards sustainable, climate-resilient, healthy diets”. Within a year, its Food and Agriculture Organization aims to launch a “roadmap” for reducing greenhouse emissions in the agricultural sector.
The endgame is hinted at in several other UN documents: reducing nitrogen use and global livestock production, lowering meat consumption, and promoting more “sustainable” sources of protein, such as plant-based or lab-grown products, and even insects. The United Nations Environment Programme, for example, has stated that global meat and dairy consumption must be reduced by 50% by 2050. Other international and multilateral organisation have presented their own plans for transforming the global food system. The EU’s Farm to Fork strategy “aims to accelerate our transition to a sustainable food system”. Meanwhile, the World Bank, in its climate change action plan for 2021-2025, says that 35% of the bank’s total funding during this period will be devoted to transforming agriculture and other key systems to deal with climate change.
The problem with the globalist trend, says Fazi, is obvious:
Ultimately, small and medium-scale farming is more sustainable than large-scale industrial farming, as it is typically associated with greater biodiversity and the protection of landscape features. Small farms also provide a whole range of other public goods: they help to maintain lively rural and remote areas, preserve regional identities, and offer employment in regions with fewer job opportunities. But most importantly, small farms feed the world. A 2017 study found that the “peasant food web” — the diverse network of small-scale producers disconnected from Big Agriculture — feeds more than half of the world’s population using only 25% of the world’s agricultural resources.
For now, at least, Fazi thinks there is “still time to resist the Great Food Reset”. Let’s hope so.
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The WEF plan is simple. Create artificial shortages to force prices up, at the same time promote mass migration to keep wages down.
Then get the population dependent on Government handouts for their living. See the energy price cap for details.
No. The plan is depopulation and it is something too many want to ignore.
The aim is to eliminate small farms. Once this has been achieved the real squeeze on dinner plates can begin and that means food shortages and famines / starvation.
The migration that is being allowed is not about wages it is intended to induce social upheavals and strife. Dumping thousands of people who care nothing for this country in small towns is guaranteed to cause trouble. That is intentional. The British way of life is being deliberately undermined and this won’t stop until we force a stop.
Agenda 2030 and Net Zero are vehemently anti human and people had better wake up to this and PDQ. We are not in a silly game here, we either fight and win or it is death for millions and enslavement for the survivors.
No, no, no, it’s all just a bunch of hapless politicians cocking up, you know, how they always do. Cock up here, cock up there.
Sinister global agenda… really.
Go to UN and WEF websites. They are basically telling you in black and white what their intentions are. ——-NET ZERO is a global agenda. Climate Policies are a global agenda. But hey don’t take my word for it. here is what a lead author at the IPCC said a few years ago —-“One has to free oneself from the illusion that climate policies are environmental policies anymore. We redistribute the worlds wealth de facto by climate policy”. ——It is possible to be a hapless squirming parasite politician that cocks everything up and a UN/WEF lackey at the same time.
The People’s Food & Farming Alliance was set up last year to support localised resistance to & resilience from this top down destruction. They have some useful resources to support farmers, allotment growers & garden gardeners.
Even if all you have is a balcony, you do have the space for a potato grow sack, a pot for climbing beans & then sow winter spinach or other such crop into the post for over the winter.
I’ve got 11 grow bags for potatoes. The maincrop will be stored but surplus first & second earlies will be going into the village community larder. If each of us who can grow does grow something & shares the harvest, preserves the harvest, it will help.
One individual doing this doesn’t achieve much, but the more of us there are, the greater the impact.
https://the-pffa.org/
What I do not understand is why we the public are letting these so called ” elites ” get away with this crap.
We have a class of Klaus mates” embedded ” is all our parliaments .We did not vote them in to work for any Supranational organisations but only to represent us as individual nations .
They are clearly mostly corrupt and traitorous .
Why do we let them get away with it ??.
WE need to keep a list for the reckoning which I think will come very soon .
Our friends in France and overnight Rotherham plus Oxford and London have already started to show us the way.Mass public resistance along with a reckoning for the complicit is the only way I can see it being stopped..
A lot of people wont believe it until they are herded with cattle prods into their 15 minute sleeping pod. Some people are beginning to see what is happening, but this has been in the planning for 30 years, and wont be easy to stop. Fortunately, most of what the WEF propose is just so ludicrous, that it wouldn’t work if no-one put up a struggle. Reality will deal with much of it, but not before agreat deal of pain and damage is inflicted on our societies.
I agree totally .The public need to wake up which is a big ask !!
It’s not that different to Amazon being allowed to operate during lockdown while small businesses had to shut and Amazon then hoovering up the failed business.
The world’s problems, especially health, could be resolved through the provision of decent, honest food.
We know this. Cancer is caused by sugar, dodgy oils etc. in processed food. Obesity is not generally speaking genetic and therefore cannot be resolved by new money making nonsense dna/rna jabs.
Resistance is entirely right and proper to this failing/flailing Disney dystopia.
Cancer is, in the main, a genetic lottery.
And yes so many people swallow every lie from Covid to Climate. No doubt they’ll be happy to swallow the insects to save the planet.
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History has proven that the masses will never be subdued
Would you like chips or potatoes with Ze Bugs?—- Pass the tomato sauce please? “It isn’t tomato sauce, it is locust sauce dyed red”. Ok then I will have Onion relish. “It isn’t onions it is slaters”. ————-Well at least the Dutch and French give their eco socialist governments a bloody nose unlike here where we invite 21 year old pink haired students who know NOTHING, onto our TV News programs to tell us billions are all going to die because of a slight increase in a trace gas.
She didn’t tell us: she screamed hysterically, like a 2 yr old having a major temper tantrum. The best strategy for that is to walk out and leave them screaming hysterically to themselves; unfortunately Rees-Mogg didn’t do that; he sat there indulging her mental health condition.
Oh so you saw it as well?. ——-Mogg does a little bit better than Patrick Christy’s does with these brainwashed dreamers though. But you could see the silly little twerp sitting there conjuring up her next vomit of evidence free drivel rather than remotely intending to answer any of Moggs points. These imbeciles scream blue murder telling us the government isn’t doing enough. But all Mogg had to say was “Yes we are doing way more than enough. We are the only country in the world with a Climate Change act. We just waved NET ZERO at astronomical and cost no benefit through parliament. We are getting rid of petrol and diesel. We have virtually phased out coal and want rid of 22 million gas boilers. But that IS NOT ENOUGH? Are you totally insane”? ——-The UK is only emitting about 1% of the emissions that the UN is pretending to be worried about, yet we are doing way more than most. Perhaps we should just close the UK down next Tuesday, but if we actually did that it would make no noticeable difference to climate. This twit should cycle off to Beijing and complain. Ofcourse they never do that because they know they would end up in the gulag. They only do it here because we indulge their silly eco socialist bulls..t.
Putting people like her on TV shows the population just who these climate zealots are. She may think she did well, but in fact she did nothing to further her cause. Incidentally I had to switch channels half way through. They do my nut in.
I understand what you are saying, but I want these imbeciles to be seen and heard. If you don’t know what they are saying and can see how absurd they are then you cannot argue with them. But these people are simply the useful idiots that do the screaming and shouting that politicians cannot do because it would be undignified. We cannot though have energy policy dictated by silly little twits like her.