The system that makes the Netherlands the second largest food exporter has resulted in ever fewer farmers earning ever less money. They as a group are the first

The system that makes the Netherlands the second largest food exporter has resulted in ever fewer farmers earning ever less money. They as a group are the first that stand to gain from a complete change in how Dutch agribusiness operates, because the profits of the current export-focussed system are not going to them. It also costs the Dutch tax payer (and European tax payers through the famous European agricultural subsidies) billions of Euros. Subsidy on pork farming is over a 100%, and still pig farmers are struggling. That a significant group of farmers is defending this status quo goes to show that they have a poor understanding of their situation.