ZAANDAM, Netherlands (AP) Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions used tractors and trucks Monday to block roads and supermarket distribution centers, sparking fears of store food shortages in the latest actions through a summer of discontent in the country's lucrative agricultural sector.
A protest that took place in the Dutch city of Heerenveen saw gunfire after police officers on site fired “targeted shots” over a “threatening situation.” Several protestors on tractors, we are told, drove into a crowd of officers and their cars. The cops issued warning shots before firing at the tractors, hitting one of them. […]
Dutch farmers are protesting against Netherland’s new environmental rulings. After blockading a supermarket and major roads, Dutch police are stepping in. The government says that farmers need to drastically reduce the amount of nitrogen oxide and ammonia emissions that their livestock produces.
Farmers in the Netherlands are staging protests over the government’s upcoming changes to environmental regulations aimed at substantially reducing pollutant