Dutch Farmers Protest: Hemp Solutions – Cannabis News, Lifestyle

What is the Dutch peasant protest about? On Tuesday, Dutch lawmakers voted to declare farmers climate change propagandists. Their emissions are environmentally destructive pollutants, and they must limit everything from livestock to their crops. Every farmer on the fringes goes bankrupt.

It’s all for the good of the planet. Says the politician, who spits out more toxic waste when he speaks for five minutes than all the nitrogen oxides and ammonia Dutch farm animals produce in their lifetime.

Like Canadian truckers, Dutch farmers drove their tractors to Parliament. Prime Minister Mark Rutte says they have the right to protest but not “to create dangerous situations” which includes “intimidating” government officials.

Doesn’t Rutte see a classic liberal truth? A principle that defines a free society.

“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

I would say Rutte wasn’t intimidated enough.

Nonviolent occupation is justified

Maybe I mean something too extreme? The state is an institution of violence, so it will play this game better. An armed populace is necessary, but I would argue that this is also a copy of Gene Sharp’s The Methods of Nonviolent Action.

Sharp outlines 198 real-world examples of where nonviolent action has worked. Numbers 31 to 34 are all about pressuring and mocking government officials. Numbers 162 to 173 deal with nonviolent occupation.

The Dutch want to reduce their farming and animal husbandry by 50% over the next eight years. That’s what this Dutch peasant protest is all about. They are not the extremes. The government is.

Do livestock and agriculture contribute to the greenhouse effect? Yes, but it’s a closed system. Ruminants have been around longer than industry. And agriculture can be regenerative. We have all the knowledge and it is possible to feed the world grass-fed beef.

But central planners will never care about this concept. The corporate state will never give up its power and authority for a decentralized network of pawns. They would rather farm bugs in factories and profit from it, while the yuppies think eating bugs helps the environment.

In reality, this insane drive to cut emissions at all costs leads to only one thing: starvation.

Accidental Genocide

Did Joseph Stalin, the patron saint of the Soviet Union, want to kill millions of Ukrainians?

Many on the left, including professional historians and journalists, have long ignored the Ukrainian genocide. They acted like it didn’t happen. It didn’t fit their narrative that the USSR was a socialist workers’ paradise.

But finally they couldn’t ignore the truth. So now the goal posts have shifted. The question arises whether Stalin wanted to kill all these people.

The same is true of Mao’s rule over China. There is a wealth of evidence against Mao. The man was a psychopath. His reign of terror saw the deaths of hundreds of millions of Chinese. He destroyed historical artifacts to “purify” China’s traditional culture and adapt to a new socialist future.

Did Mao want to starve all these people to death? does it matter?

As Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau likes to say, this is the current year. Are we going to have this debate?

We know that free markets, private property and the rule of law create freedom and prosperity.

We know that top-down authority leads to unintended consequences. Even if the wishes of the rulers are quite reasonable and their intentions pure. There’s a real problem with organizations that are a) too big and b) immune to monetary loss.

Without a chance to tell lawmakers to get lost, Dutch farmers are left to protest. And because so much is at stake – literal hunger – the politics of nonviolent action must be extreme.

Complete cast. Politicians should be afraid to leave their homes and offices.

Dutch peasant protest: hemp solution

Agriculture worldwide has a problem with pesticides and monocultures that destroy the soil. Monoculture hemp will not solve these problems. But hemp is a vital food source to move us away from mass-produced corn, soy, and canola.

Hemp also absorbs more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than typical crops. Hemp can also decontaminate soils heavily contaminated with heavy metal pollutants.

Where corn yields four tons of biomass per acre, hemp yields up to seven tons per acre. It also produces more fiber per hectare than cotton. Before the 1930s, hemp fiber was more popular than cotton.

Hemp is naturally resistant to insects and requires fewer pesticides, which is exactly what Dutch lawmakers are so angry about.

Hemp is also a complete food source. Even the seeds contain 25 grams of protein per 100 grams. This is comparable to meat and fish. It has nine essential amino acids, iron and vitamin E. It is rich in all the good fatty acids: polyunsaturated, linoleic and alpha.

And the ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 is ideal, better than in fish and meat.

Not only can we prevent hunger in the West by investing in regenerative agriculture and hemp, we can also fight world hunger.

Dutch Farmers’ Protest Will Solve World Hunger?

Lawmakers and business journalists calling for emissions reductions are calling for genocide. The solution will not be a top-down policy that people have to obey. The solution will be from the bottom up. It will be at the base.

And it will likely be radical enough to oust many government employees. Individuals who want their inflated taxpayer income (and fat pensions) will do anything to keep them.

If the Dutch farmers’ protest is successful and the government gives in, they can demand the following. Farmers around the world should also be aware of this as this issue is not limited to the Netherlands.

Do you want to solve world hunger? Do you want to restore food security in the west? Eliminate all taxes and license requirements for food production and sale.

Supply will immediately increase, prices will fall and a wider variety of foods will enter the market. Competing voluntary accrediting agencies take the place of mandatory state licensing – when farmers believe that such accreditation improves their own reputation and that their consumers care about the reputation and are willing to pay for it.

There is no coherent argument for state bureaucracy. Government plans to control agriculture must be fought at every turn.