{"id":1538754,"date":"2022-07-04T18:34:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538754"},"modified":"2022-07-04T18:34:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T22:34:41","slug":"dutch-farmers-spread-manure-on-streets-as-new-emissions-rules-threaten-to-close-down-livestock-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dutch-farmers-spread-manure-on-streets-as-new-emissions-rules-threaten-to-close-down-livestock-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Farmers Spread Manure On Streets As New Emissions Rules Threaten To Close Down Livestock Farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdutch-farmers-spread-manure-on-streets-as-new-emissions-rules-threaten-to-close-down-livestock-farms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1538754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Farmers in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/netherlands\">Netherlands<\/a> are blocking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/agriculture\">supermarket<\/a> distribution centers with tractors and spreading manure outside of officials\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of last month, the Dutch government unveiled a plan to slash 50% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/climate-change\">pollutants<\/a> such as nitrogen oxides and ammonia by 2030, according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Business\/wireStory\/explainer-dutch-farmers-protesting-emissions-85848026\">ABC News<\/a>. As the government acknowledged in a statement, \u201cThe honest message\u2026 is that not all farmers can continue their business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, roughly 40,000 farmers gathered to protest the plans, blocking traffic across the country as they drove slowly in their tractors. \u201cSome have dumped hay bales on roads, and small groups demonstrated at town and city halls, in some cases starting bonfires outside the buildings,\u201d ABC reported, noting that other farmers \u201cset hay bales ablaze.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Urine and dung produced by livestock are a source of ammonia and nitrous oxide emissions, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34192353\/\">study<\/a> published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine. <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.nasa.gov\/news\/2565\/nasa-satellite-identifies-global-ammonia-hotspots\/\">NASA<\/a> satellites have linked agricultural regions to higher atmospheric ammonia concentrations, which lead to \u201cpoor air and water quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, farmers continued their protests by blocking supermarket distribution networks, with fishermen blocking ports in a sign of solidarity, according to a report from German state-owned news outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/dutch-farmers-block-food-distribution-centers-over-new-environmental-rules\/a-62356217\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>. Dutch government data show that the Netherlands\u2019 policies could shutter 30% of livestock farms.<\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands exported \u20ac94.5 billion \u2014 roughly $98.5 billion \u2014 of agricultural goods in 2019, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.government.nl\/latest\/news\/2020\/01\/17\/dutch-agricultural-exports-worth-%E2%82%AC94.5-billion-in-2019#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20the%20Netherlands%20exported,due%20to%20higher%20export%20volume.\">report<\/a> from the nation\u2019s agriculture ministry. A majority of the goods are shipped to other European countries.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte condemned the protests. \u201cYou can demonstrate, but in a civilized way,\u201d he remarked at a NATO summit last week in Madrid, per the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/netherlands-pollution-climate-and-environment-2e5901110047253d77b725362ad94134\">Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cSo don\u2019t block highways, don\u2019t set off fireworks outside a minister\u2019s house and spread manure and \u2026 scare two children, and endanger families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, protesters left manure on a street near the home of Christianne van der Wal, the minister leading the Netherlands\u2019 anti-pollution efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers are condemning the nation\u2019s new climate regulations. \u201cWe cannot invest. Our fathers, our uncles, cannot invest in the future. And so as young farmers we also have no prospect of \u2026 taking over a farm,\u201d 23-year-old dairy farmer Marijn van Heun told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2022\/06\/23\/we-are-not-pollution-producers-dutch-farmers-block-roads-in-protest-against-emissions-targ\">Euronews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where the rules are made,\u201d dairy farmer Jaap Zegwaard, who brought his tractor to a protest in The Hague, added to the outlet. \u201cI was asked to come here and provide breakfast so we can show we are food producers, not pollution producers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, the Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-rules-against-bidens-epa-says-agency-does-not-have-authority-to-regulate-carbon-dioxide-emissions\">ruled<\/a> last week that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants for the purpose of reducing coal usage, since the entity was not specifically granted that power by Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCapping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible \u2018solution to the crisis of the day,\u2019\u201d Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in his majority opinion. \u201cBut it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme \u2026 A decision of such magnitude and consequence rests with Congress itself, or an agency acting pursuant to a clear delegation from that representative body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers in the Netherlands are blocking supermarket distribution centers with tractors and spreading manure outside of officials\u2019 homes. At the end of last month, the Dutch government unveiled a plan to slash 50% of pollutants such as nitrogen oxides and ammonia by 2030, according to a report from ABC News. 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