Most animal agriculture has ties to the right. Increasingly so as more and more people realize animal agriculture is a major driver of climate change. Climate change denier are most of the time right, far right, conservative. The industry is looking for support and they find it at the far right side.
Same thing in the Netherlands. There’s a common misconception that farmers are poor small landowners, who care for nature and the natural landscape.
Those are long gone or incredibly rare. What’s left is large landowners from (quasi-)aristocratic families or large corporations, hoarding their wealth and land. Often they hire foreign workers to do the actual work, treating them badly in the process. And pollution. So much pollution.
Most animal agriculture has ties to the right. Increasingly so as more and more people realize animal agriculture is a major driver of climate change. Climate change denier are most of the time right, far right, conservative. The industry is looking for support and they find it at the far right side.
https://taz.de/Rechtsradikale-und-Agrarproteste/!5920354/
https://taz.de/Verschwoerungsmythen-bei-Landwirtstreffen/!5964721/
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Same thing in the Netherlands. There’s a common misconception that farmers are poor small landowners, who care for nature and the natural landscape.
Those are long gone or incredibly rare. What’s left is large landowners from (quasi-)aristocratic families or large corporations, hoarding their wealth and land. Often they hire foreign workers to do the actual work, treating them badly in the process. And pollution. So much pollution.