City state Holland – why it matters for pig producers

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Vincent ter Beek Editor of Pig Progress / Topic: Pigs around the world
Dutch farmers protesting against the Dutch nitrogen policies. Photo: Bert Janssen
Dutch farmers protesting against the Dutch nitrogen policies. Photo: Bert Janssen
My country is evolving into a city state. Instead of cities in an agricultural landscape, the Netherlands eventually is going to consist of cities with natural parks and scattered patches of countryside. The current farmers’ protests and nitrogen debate are part of a bigger picture. ​A cauldron in a fireplace, perhaps that is an appropriate way to think of what the debate on animal agriculture is like in the Netherlands. For years – especially after the Second World War – the heat was


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