these right here are Dutch farmers over in the Netherlands
who have been protesting blocking roads and using their tractors to shutdown major city centers
airports bridges as well as food distribution plants across the entire country for several months
and the reason that the farmers are doing this is rather simple they are
rising up against a government proposal that would put severe limits on nitrogen emission
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 herded around the entire world
because amidst a drought season amidst a year of relatively poor crops
am it's a year of raging inflation and of course you had the Russia
Ukraine war leading to actual food shortages
while 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 workout in the fields
my team and I flew over to the Netherlands in order to find out
for ourselves what was really happening there