Is rather simple they are rising up against a government proposal that would put severe limits on nitrogen emissions and in the process it will put about a third of the farmers out of work now this was of course shocking to everyone who heard it around the entire world
Because amidst a drought season amidst a year of relatively poor crops amidst the year of raging inflation and of course you had the russia ukraine war leading to actual food shortages well the idea that a government would kneecap their own domestic farming production was unfathomable and so in order to figure
Out what was really behind these policies as well as how these policies would affect the actual men and women who work out on the fields my team and i flew over to the netherlands in order to find out for ourselves what was really happening there
