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by stev-0
1167 days ago
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> There are even people advocating to take the farms from them. That’s the only option left on the table if they won’t shrink the livestock and diversify as farmers. Let’s be real: it’s not like this legislation came out of the blue. Nitrogen deposition as a problem is something the sector has known about for a while. Instead of diversifying away from nitrogen emission these companies chose to double down on nitrogen washing technology.
Turns out that technology doesn’t work. Intensive livestock in the way it’s happening now doesn’t have a future in the Netherlands. I’d like to go even further and say that it makes a poor investment anywhere in the world. Farmers are entrepreneurs. Being an entrepreneur means managing risks and they did that pretty poorly as a sector. A lot of farmers invited the risk and harvested its profits.
Had they diversified they would have been in much better shape. You can’t eat your cake and have it.. |
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