Dutch Farmers Protest Climate Mandates That Would Cut Livestock by 30 Percent

Nation is world's 5th largest food exporter

Tractors drive by Dutch police officers standing guard as dutch police close access to Apeldoorn on the A1 highway to stop potential farmers demonstrating against the Dutch government's plans to cut nitrogen greenhouse gas emissions, on 29 June 2022. Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images

Dutch farmers are continuing their demonstrations against a government climate policy that officials expect to end many farmers’ livelihoods, with organizers on Telegram planning July 4 protests they say will “flatten” the whole of the Netherlands.

The message calls on concerned farmers and citizens to organize their own regional actions with the goal of closing all “distribution centers for food supplies and all major polluters” until “the government changes its plans.”