Dutch-Canadians warn Farmers about nitrogen control measures, government over reach

Image: Twitter #DutchFarmers

Road Warrior News has polled Dutch-Canadian citizens and Farmers about the protests currently underway in Europe and found they are shocked and surprised current events in the Netherlands. Dutch Farmers have used their tractors to blockade highways and the airport, and one report indicates they even towed away the Prime Minister’s private jet.

As they have since the earliest days of the protests, which have now spread to nations including Italy and Poland, the Dutch Farmers point to the Canadian Freedom Convoy as their inspiration.

One Dutch-Canadian reader, who has lived in Canada since the 1960s, forwarded the video below as the clearest and most reasonable summary.

“I lived in the Netherlands I lived in Amsterdam for close to two years. And the Dutch are fantastic people, and they’re incredibly easy going and patient people,” notes the Klockenluidders video.

“I mean, it takes a lot to piss them off. And what is going on now in the Netherlands is incredible. It’s not only incredible what’s going on in the Netherlands, it’s what’s going on in the rest of the world. That’s insane.

“You see, for those of you in the United States, and in the rest of Europe, you probably have no idea that in the Netherlands, there are all kinds of riots going on, on the part of farmers and people who are sympathetic to the farmers plight. Because if you don’t know, what happened is that the Dutch government is implementing some climate change measures. And they are shutting down farms, except to 30 per cent up to 50 per cent. It depends on the kind of farm and whatnot.

“And it’s all about lowering nitrogen rates, which doesn’t make any sense, the air that you breathe right now that you and I are breathing is something like 70 72% Nitrogen, okay? It’s not all oxygen, okay, oxygen is like 18%, I think something like that. But the nitrogen is like 72%. This notion that Dutch farmers are producing so much nitrogen, nitrogen, that roughly between a third and a fifth of the farms have to be shut down is insane.

“And it is so insane that of course, the Dutch farmers are not happy, and they’ve been protesting. They’ve shut down 80% of the country, it is now impossible to to cross the border between the Netherlands and Germany, because the farmers and also truckers and other allied people are blocking the highways. They are blocking it with their tractors, they’re blocking it with heaps of manure.

“They are blocking it with whatever they can get. And most of the people in the Netherlands are with the farmers. And yet none of this is being reported in the mainstream.”