The Boerburger movement was conceived and founded at the advertising agency of om. Bayer, Agrifirm and Vion, by the two directors of that agency (Remarkable in Deventer) together with an ardent supporter of pig farming, and that both the founding board and the new party's business address coincided. But that this development also seems closely related to the establishment of the “independent” foundation Agrifacts , a notoriously disseminator of misinformation about nitrogen and climate, followed by the agronomists supported campaign geefboerentoekomstnl , is cause for concern. This campaign suggests that food from the Netherlands will become unaffordable and that the agricultural sector will disappear from the Netherlands if the nitrogen crisis is addressed. Big Agro also fuels the frame that farmland should disappear to build houses for asylum seekers.

In this way, with misinformation and assertions that play their part, they are holding the country hostage. Not only is a small percentage of land needed to provide housing for the 500,000 people who are looking for a home, the elections are also being hijacked at the expense of those who want to go green: farmers, animals, nature and all those Dutch people who experience problems with intensive livestock farming and pesticides in horticulture and agriculture. But farmers who seek refuge from other agricultural parties are no better off either. The sole winner is Big Agro.


Low economic value No less than 66% of our land area has an agricultural use. This is also clearly seen in dense provinces such as Gelderland, Overijssel, Brabant and Limburg: the huge corn fields and the monotonous ryegrass plains have nothing to do with nature, but are all at the service of the agricultural sector. Not to feed people, but to serve as animal feed for the more than 600 million farm animals that are slaughtered annually in the Netherlands.

The importance of the agricultural sector for the Gross National Product is small; the primary agricultural sector contributes less than 15% to GDP, and the intensive livestock complex even 09%. In fact, according to Ecorys research, livestock farming costs society more than 5 billion in damage to nature and the environment. In comparison, the cultural sector's value for GDP is more than twice as high, and only benefits society. If we reduce the number of animals in livestock farming by 75%, this will result in more than livestock farming costs taxpayers today, according to the study.

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