[d215]

Hmm, I am from the Netherlands too. Not sure which media and lobby against farmers you're exactly referring to. Who would be putting up this lobby and to what ends?

Now I know that there is a big lobby in favour of agriculture in the Netherlands, that is highly successful and had basically a political party in its pocket up until the mid-90s - the CDA, you might want to google Gerrit Braks for example. This lobby was one of the enablers of the rise of the high-tech agri-cultural industry in the Netherlands as we know it today.

[spiderfarmer]

This piece, from a foreign media outlet is the only positive story about Dutch agriculture I saw in nearly a month. The last one was about how little antibiotics we use compared to the rest of the world.

Stories about how our farmers are bad? Missed the whole fipronil hype that completely unsubstantiated?

Talk to a farmer. Ask him who speaks for him nowadays. The lobby is "doodgepoldert". There is none.

Check how the NPO, Wakker Dier, Pvdd, Milieudefensie and Greenpeace are connected and you'll see the size of that lobby.

[rocqua]

I'd like a quote on the NPO there. That is a public non-partisan institution.