Why are farmers protesting?

Here's a good article here about the recent history of agriculture in the Netherlands (and the same story applies to much of the world).

Farming has become an increasingly miserable, poorly-paid and environmentally-ruinous profession, thanks to decades of poor government policy/neoliberal globalisation.

But now farmers are expected to be able to afford to adhere to new green regulations - only needed as a result of the neoliberal corporatisation/centralisation of their industry. This has resulted in the current farmer protests in the Netherlands.

A genuine effort to address climate change would involve undoing the recent decades of corporatisation and centralisation, and switching to agroecology. But the governments and organisations that imposed the current system, (and profit off it), are not interested in that. Instead, EU neoliberals and technocrats would rather force farmers out of work and fuel the already-burgeoning food crisis.

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Watch THIS clip with Russell Brand and Vandana Shiva.