Stop paying the polluters!
Stop paying polluters and let the polluters pay Protesting farmers demand more appreciation and support from the population. In reality, in 2020, an average Dutch family is already paying more than 500 euros of tax as income support for the agricultural sector.
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Farmers protesting Farmers dump waste, manure and hay on highways. On motorways, farmers have once again campaigned against the cabinet's nitrogen plans. This morning, dozens of blockages were raised on the A1, A12, A28, A30, A35 and A50. Manure, hay, asbestos and other waste were landfilled in various places and fires were set.
This is evident from calculations by Wageningen Economic Research, the successor to the Agricultural Economic Institute. Residents of the Netherlands pay around 130 euros per person to their farmers via the EU, which amounts to more than 500 euros for a family with two children. Money that goes into the remediation of pig farming or tackling nitrogen problems has been left out of the calculation.
Destroying farmers receive tons of subsidy
'18 percent of farmers are millionaires' By comparison: 'Of all workers, 15 percent are millionaires.’ And about the income differences: 'The average disposable income of a farmer comes to 42 thousand euros, while the average worker has to do with 34 thousand euros.'
Every year, the agricultural sector raises 750 million euros in agricultural subsidies. Farmers with a lot of land receive more than small farmers: payment is made per hectare. In addition, there are “greening subsidies” and subsidies for young farmers. https://mijn.rvo.nl/europese-subsidies-2018
For example, the farmer who rammed out the door of the provincial house with his tractor received more than 120,000 euros of subsidy last year, writes the Groningen youth news site. Ironically, the farmer gets almost 35,000 euros for 'climate and environmentally friendly agricultural practices'.
The farmer who was in the tractor who knocked down several fences at the Fish Market will also receive more than 7,000 euros for making his business more sustainable. In addition, he receives more than 16,000 euros in 'basic payment scheme': direct income support without obligations.
“The point is not that large amounts of money are being paid”, . “The point is that these payments directly contribute to the problems that Europe wants to tackle.”
The NGO, like other environmental organizations, is devastating in its criticism. The CAP says Brunner, particularly encourages increasing intensification of agriculture. “And that is not sustainable. Not even economically. It leads to a spiral in which farmers have to incur more and more debt. Where the big companies eat the small ones. Where everyone dies from the stress. Even from an economic point of view, this is unsustainable.”
In November, 2,500 scientists wrote a letter of fire to the new European Commission. The current agricultural policy, they wrote, “turns countryside into green deserts of uninhabitable monocultures where maximum returns are squeezed out.”
Large-scale fraud in Europe.
These fears are reinforced by the current problems with agricultural subsidies. Recently, they came back to full light due to a major research paper in The New York Times.
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