It Is Your Choice

 Eric Utter discusses the causes of the farmer protests in the Netherlands in a post at the American Thinker entitled That's a great way to hasten national suicide!. The proximate cause of the farmers' ire is a climate proposal by the government that would put a half of them out of business.

Dutch police recently shot at tractor-riding farmers who were protesting a preposterous government climate proposal in a northern area of the Netherlands. The Dutch government purportedly plans to cut in half so-called greenhouse gas emissions from bovine farts and belches, farm animal manure, and the use of ammonia in fertilizer — by 2030. Government officials say the plan is necessary to reduce these "harmful" pollutants, but the farmers say the government's new standards would destroy their livelihoods. So, in recent weeks, they have organized a nationwide protest against the despotic plans.

If the proposal is approved, to meet the government's emissions target, farmers would be forced to reduce the number of livestock they own. Moreover, farmers whose animals produce large amounts of ammonia would have their farms purchased by the government. To that end, a government representative recently stated: "The honest message ... is that not all farmers can continue their business."

"Not all farmers can continue their business"? Because the government won't let them. Wow. I guess it's no longer just COVID that governments use to determine if you can keep your business.

Didn't they tell us we all need to eat a vegan diet? And didn't they tell us that we can't use chemical fertilizers. So, that leaves us with animal manure and compost. Yet they want to eliminate the animals too. Hmmm. Is it possible that Klaus Schuab and his scavenger brigade want to starve us to death? We know that some of them are convinced there are too many of God's images in the world. Is that why Bill Gates is buying up farm land? Here's another question: Are we going to let them?