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2026-08-19 Europe

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Posted by Bobby 2026-08-19 00:33|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [258 views ] Top

1 Small, independent, family farming operations are made difficult to impossible almost everywhere.

* Find the key words in the above statement that are alien to freedom, big corporate ownership, and government control.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-08-19 06:00|| 2026-08-19 06:00|| Front Page Top

2 EU facing food crisis

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-08-19 11:55|| 2026-08-19 11:55|| Front Page Top

3 So Europe is becoming anorexic.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2026-08-19 12:04|| 2026-08-19 12:04|| Front Page Top

4 I thought gov't engineered COVID-19 was supposed to fix all of this.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-08-19 12:45|| 2026-08-19 12:45|| Front Page Top

5 The numbers seem odd to me. There is a huge difference between 490 grams and 0.07 grams; roughly 7000 to 1. It appears the EC has mandated certain goals. I wonder if there is any realism to the numbers.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2026-08-19 13:23|| 2026-08-19 13:23|| Front Page Top

6 Where is the dipshit to tell us how smart they are in Europe?

Posted by chris 2026-08-19 14:15|| 2026-08-19 14:15|| Front Page Top

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The Netherlands emits more nitrogen compounds per hectare than any other country in the EU by a long way, according to the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. 61 percent of these nitrogen compounds are produced by agriculture, with intensive livestock farming being the most important source of nitrogen pollution.[4] In a sense, the nitrogen crisis is the successor to the acid rain problem of the 1980s.

Oy, I remember the Acid Rain problem. On the other hand -

Origin of nitrogen deposition in the Netherlands in 2018[1][2]
Agriculture (46.0%)
Foreign sources (32.3%)
Households (6.10%)
Road traffic (6.10%)
International shipping (2.90%)

61% of the problem? (first quote) or 46% per the second quote. And 32% from 'Foreign Sources? Who's working on that? Wikipedia source

Posted by Bobby 2026-08-19 15:44|| 2026-08-19 15:44|| Front Page Top

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