Dutch farmers speak out at press conference in Eerbeek: 'we want to turn our government back to reality'
"If our demands aren't met by the government? I cannot predict," a woman told Rebel News reporter Lewis Brackpool at a press conference in Eerbeek hosted by Dutch farmers protesting Prime Minister Mark Rutte's punishing nitrogen restrictions.
I have just landed in the Netherlands to report on the Farmer Rebellion for @TPostMillennial in collaboration with @RebelNewsOnline.
— Katie Daviscourt🇺🇸🇳🇱 (@KatieDaviscourt) July 8, 2022
I am driving to meet up with a group of farmers for a press conference with @lincolnmjay and @Lewis_Brackpool.
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Rebel News reporters are in Holland covering the mass, nationwide protests against new restrictions of nitrogen use in fertilizers and nitrogen emissions from animal agriculture that could see farmers be forced to relinquish land and cull livestock to meet targets set by Rutte.
Protests against the green scheme began 3 years ago and have reignited in recent weeks, with thousands of farmers blocking legislatures, highways, and airports and forming convoys in cities all across the Netherlands.
We have arrived in Eerbeek, where farmers have set up camp, the Canadian flag flies high in the middle of the convoy.
— Lewis Brackpool (@Lewis_Brackpool) July 8, 2022
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"I think the nature can survive our farming because it has been surviving our farming for centuries..it has nothing to do with reality. The reality is fine. The nature is fine. The farming is fine. So we want to turn our government back to reality."
LIVE in Eerbeek, Netherlands.
— Lincoln Jay (@lincolnmjay) July 8, 2022
Farmers holding a press conference. https://t.co/SG5ypAz3B9 https://t.co/wvd2iuBb95
Though there were mainstream reporters at the Eerbeek press conference, the bulk if the questions fielded by the farmers came from Rebel News reporters Lincoln Jay and Lewis Brackpool, as well as The Post Millennial's Katie Daviscourt, who is working alongside the Rebel team.
To see all of their coverage from within the farmers' protests in Holland to support their independent, exclusive journalism, please visit www.FarmerRebellion.com
Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn Reid is the Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News and host of the weekly The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. She's a mother of three, conservative activist, and the author of best-selling books including Stop Notley.
