{"id":597991,"date":"2021-07-20T13:35:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597991"},"modified":"2021-07-20T13:35:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T17:35:32","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-farmers-protesting-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-farmers-protesting-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show Farmers Protesting In New Zealand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Ffact-check-does-this-image-show-farmers-protesting-in-new-zealand%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=597991&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Farm-protest-scaled-e1626735691275.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bettina.barbie\/posts\/10224701620075561\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows farmers protesting on tractors in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The image, which was taken in 2019, actually shows a farmers\u2019 protest in the Netherlands, not New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In recent days, New Zealand farmers have been participating in a demonstration called \u201cHowl Of A Protest,\u201d and have been driving their tractors into cities, causing traffic jams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/farmers-protesting-tractors-take-streets-new-zealand-2021-07-16\/\">Reuters<\/a> reported. The farmers are protesting the New Zealand government\u2019s environmental and climate change policies, among other regulations, that some believe are hurting their business, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Now some social media users have been sharing an image, supposedly from the protests, showing dozens of tractors driving down one side of a highway. \u201cFarmer\u2019s protest today! pukekohe to Auckland,\u201d the image\u2019s caption reads. \u201cStanding up to our tyrannical government that are land grabbing and destroying farmer\u2019s lively hoods. We need to support them for the farmers feed us!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The image does not, however, show the recent New Zealand protests. Through a reverse image search, Check Your Fact found a near-identical photo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/editorial\/image-editorial\/farmers-protest-in-the-hague-hoogeven-netherlands-01-oct-2019-10431957a\">Shutterstock<\/a>. The image shared on Facebook appears to have flipped and cropped the original photo. The photo was actually taken in the Netherlands in 2019, according to its caption on Shutterstock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarmers block the A28 Highway with their tractors between Hoogeveen and Meppel in The Netherlands, 01 October 2019,\u201d the image\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/editorial\/image-editorial\/farmers-protest-in-the-hague-hoogeven-netherlands-01-oct-2019-10431957a\">caption<\/a> reads. \u201cThe farmers joined a national protest in The Hague.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/12\/22\/fact-check-stacey-abrams-dont-need-farmers-have-grocery-stores\/\">(RELATED: Did Stacey Abrams Say, \u2018We Don\u2019t Need Farmers, When We Have Grocery Stores\u2019?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2019 protest was in response to proposed measures of reducing nitrogen emissions that some farmers felt unfairly targeted their profession, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/01\/766012978\/tractor-trail-of-protesting-dutch-farmers-snarls-traffic-for-hundreds-of-miles\">NPR<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows farmers protesting on tractors in New Zealand.Verdict: False The image, which was taken in 2019, actually shows a farmers\u2019 protest in the Netherlands, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}