Anonymous ID: d2bee7 Feb. 4, 2023, 2:47 p.m. No.18285784   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5834 >>5916 >>5980

>>18285580

how about some digs to get meme material?

1-31-23

 

Dutch human rights institute critical of “disproportionate” arrest of climate protesters

 

https://nltimes.nl/2023/01/31/dutch-human-rights-institute-critical-disproportionate-arrest-climate-protesters

 

Authorities in the Netherlands have placed an enormous strain on the public’s right to demonstrate by preemptively arresting environmental activists before a planned protest over the weekend, said the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights in a statement on Tuesday. Additionally, the Institute pointed to the work of University of Groningen researcher Berend Roorda who said that environmental activists and Black Lives Matter demonstrators are treated disproportionately harshly when compared to those from Farmers Defense Force.

 

The Institute noted the activists arrested last week were held on suspicion of sedition, and were banned from the area where the protest took place, a section at the end of the A12 motorway in The Hague. “The arrests show that the right to demonstrate is under serious pressure,” the Institute said. "Using criminal law instruments to prevent the organization of a demonstration is an extremely serious means that is not easy to justify."

 

In addition to the six taken into custody before the protest, 768 arrests were made at the demonstration itself. Two of those suspects were journalists covering the rally, which was originally organized by Extinction Rebellion. With the massive number of arrests, the authorities in the Netherlands run the risk of stifling debate, and curtailing the right to criticize the government….

Anonymous ID: d2bee7 Feb. 4, 2023, 2:52 p.m. No.18285814   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5834 >>5916 >>5980

Rising food prices drive up Dutch farm exports to a new record

 

Rising food prices propelled Dutch farm exports to a new record of €122 billion last year, but more than one third of that is down to re-exports, according to figures from national statistics agency CBS and Wageningen University. It is the seventh year in a row that farm exports have reached a new record. The 2022 figure is up 17% on 2021 and comes as farmers and agricultural manufacturers pass on the cost of sharply higher energy prices and more expensive animal feed and fertilizer, the CBS said. The export of Dutch produce reached almost €80 billion while the re-export of products from other countries totalled €42.5 billion. Dairy and eggs worth almost €12 billion were exported, up 35% on 2021. The increase is largely due to record milk prices. Eggs were also at record prices, as bird flu led to a shortage of supply. Food manufacturers were also hit by higher energy, packaging and transport costs, the CBS said. Germany Germany is the most important destination for Dutch farm products, accounting for around 24%, followed by Belgium, France and Britain.

 

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2023/01/rising-food-prices-drive-up-dutch-farm-exports-to-a-new-record/

 

if they stop dutch farming, they stop food to the rest of europe