By Alex Dziadosz
The farmers revolted on October 1st 2019. That day, a 15-year-old schoolboy named Björn Schütte was sitting in front of the TV at his home in Emmen, a small town in the Dutch countryside. He watched in amazement as hundreds of tractors rolled into The Hague, ploughing over fences and snarling traffic for miles around. Enraged by government plans to cut the amount of livestock in the country in half and shut down big farms to get nitrogen emissions in line with European Union regulations, the protesters displayed banners reading “Proud to be a farmer”, “No farmers, no food”, and “Make our agriculture great again”.
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