Well... definitely the Belgian and Dutch governments have failed miserably in creating the conditions for a positive change in the industry so to apply environmental policies painlessly... but I'm curious to know how much of that failure is also due to the lobbying work of the same farmers that now protest as soon as those policies are finally applied for real.
Dutch and Belgian farming exist exclusively because the will, and profit, of the large corporations that, following God Gold, are constantly working to get more dividends at year's end... and not because their product is even remotely of quality... actually the opposite: the only reason they have been able to trive on the rotten EU food market is because the so called "Quotas" assigned to the varous members and for which some lobby has pushed forward Holland and Belgium instead of other countries more "naturally vocated" to farming and where the production can be made "the natural way" instead of "the industrial way".
So, bottom line, after years of flooding the market with their tasteless and totally artificially grown products, allowed to do so by their lobbying in the EU and in total disregard of the environmental disasters made by intensive fish and cattle farming, they are now complaining because the juicy bone has been removed from under their paws... Well... I'm certainly not going to lose my sleep because of them.
About Dutch fishing fleet: The gentlemen are extensively using beam trawling and pulse trawling... they are sistematically devastating the ocean bottom in the EU waters even if the national laws of a country forbid to its own fleet to use those dreadful techniques... the Dutch trawlers abuse the EU 2019 legislation to destroy waters where the local fishermen are giving a try to do it right... and because is an EU Regulation, nobody can say anything... Only John Silver can save the ocean now that the EU gives space to those people... but Silver has long gone and I'm not sure if he'll ever be back.
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Well... definitely the Belgian and Dutch governments have failed miserably in creating the conditions for a positive change in the industry so to apply environmental policies painlessly... but I'm curious to know how much of that failure is also due to the lobbying work of the same farmers that now protest as soon as those policies are finally applied for real.
Dutch and Belgian farming exist exclusively because the will, and profit, of the large corporations that, following God Gold, are constantly working to get more dividends at year's end... and not because their product is even remotely of quality... actually the opposite: the only reason they have been able to trive on the rotten EU food market is because the so called "Quotas" assigned to the varous members and for which some lobby has pushed forward Holland and Belgium instead of other countries more "naturally vocated" to farming and where the production can be made "the natural way" instead of "the industrial way".
So, bottom line, after years of flooding the market with their tasteless and totally artificially grown products, allowed to do so by their lobbying in the EU and in total disregard of the environmental disasters made by intensive fish and cattle farming, they are now complaining because the juicy bone has been removed from under their paws... Well... I'm certainly not going to lose my sleep because of them.
About Dutch fishing fleet: The gentlemen are extensively using beam trawling and pulse trawling... they are sistematically devastating the ocean bottom in the EU waters even if the national laws of a country forbid to its own fleet to use those dreadful techniques... the Dutch trawlers abuse the EU 2019 legislation to destroy waters where the local fishermen are giving a try to do it right... and because is an EU Regulation, nobody can say anything... Only John Silver can save the ocean now that the EU gives space to those people... but Silver has long gone and I'm not sure if he'll ever be back.