From ... in Social issues Managed Decline Food Security — Feb 3, 2024

Farmers in Europe are protesting because they are being destroyed

Farmers have taken to the streets en masse in several places in Europe. To ensure MPs hadn’t lost touch with the people and public sentiment, Caroline van der Plas told the Dutch House of Representatives why the massive protests were happening.

Caroline van der Plas is the founder and party leader of the Farmer Citizen Movement (Boer Burger Beweging or “BBB”) and a Member of the Dutch Parliament (“MP”).

Yesterday, she posted a video of a speech she made during an agriculture budget debate. “At its core, this is why farmers are protesting – they are being destroyed,” she tweeted.

Van der Plas’ speech is in Dutch, but independent media outlet Nieuw Rechts has published a write-up which we have reproduced below, adding a video of a farmer’s speech at the end.

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The following is an article ‘Why are farmers protesting en masse? Van der Plas explains’ published by Nieuw Rechts. We have used an online translator to translate the article from Dutch to English.

Farmers are not only stirring in the Netherlands, in recent weeks farmers have taken to the streets en masse in several places in Europe. But what exactly is the reason?

BBB leader Caroline van der Plas explains the issue to the rest of the House of Representatives. According to her, it is obvious what motivates the farmers.

At its core, farmers are being “destroyed,” according to the BBB politician during the budget debate for agriculture. New Social Contract (“NSC”) MP Harm Holman thought that Van der Plas used rather big words, but according to Van der Plas her choice of words is more than justified.

“Mr. Holman has been a farmer himself and has of course seen very well around him what is happening in families, what is happening at kitchen tables, how many tears have already been shed, how many terrible consequences all the misery has had for farmers. That has been destroyed. I am not going to say that Minister Adema did it or that Mrs van der Wal did it. It is a combination of everything that has happened in the past 20 or 30 years, the terrible campaign commercials on the radio about scrap milk, for example. In it, dairy farmers were accused of demolishing their cows.”

The stigmatisation of farmers continues unabated, Van der Plas notes:

“Mr. Holman is also well aware that dairy farmers do everything they can to take care of their animals. They are busy at night and at dawn to take care of their animals, when there is a sick cow or when calving is needed. That’s how it spread. Even in education, children are taught things that are no longer allowed at all. Battery cages, for example, can still be found in textbooks. Children come home crying with those school books. They are called ‘animal torturers’ and ‘murderers’. Some children are punished at school because they say to the teacher: ‘That’s not the case at all, because that’s not how it works.’ Then they should keep their mouths shut.

“In politics, farmers are portrayed in a certain way. Then people always say: ‘no, we’re talking about the system.’ No, but those farmers see that as: ‘You’re not talking about the system, you’re talking about me. You’re talking about my wife, you’re talking about my children. You’re talking about my father, my mother, who have been sitting here on this ground for decades. That’s what you’re talking about’. That’s destroying.”

In addition to the stigmatisation, farmers are also saddled with the consequences of political decision-making:

“Then all those rules are added, so that they simply no longer see how to do it, while their European colleagues still have the freedom to spread the manure above ground, for example. Red diesel may still be used. There are plenty of other rules. They see that, especially the farmers in the border regions. They look out of their kitchen window and see the German or Belgian farmer doing things that they are not allowed to do themselves. That destroys people. That’s destroying.”

On Thursday, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek posted a video of a Dutch farmer giving a speech: “We are done talking. We’re done with these fake problems created by you politicians. You are trying to destroy farmers all over Europe, but just like the farmers in Brussels today, we will fight back!”

🇳🇱 Listen to this brave Dutch farmer as he warns the political establishment:

“We are done talking. We’re done with these fake problems created by you politicans. You are trying to destroy farmers all over Europe, but just like the farmers in Brussels today, we will fight back!” pic.twitter.com/2rsNitPw0y
— Eva Vlaardingerbroek (@EvaVlaar) February 1, 2024

Featured image: Rijkswaterstaat: postpone travel to Belgium due to blockades at border crossings, De Telegraaf, 2 February 2024

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