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Dutch Farmers Bring Cows to Parliament to Protest Nitrogen Cuts

Farmers demonstrate with their cows outside the House of Representatives building in the Hague, on June 28.

Farmers demonstrate with their cows outside the House of Representatives building in the Hague, on June 28.

Photographer: Jeffrey Groeneweg/AFP/Getty Images 

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Angry Dutch farmers brought their cows to parliament, threatening to slaughter them in protest of the government’s nitrogen reduction targets.

The country’s goal to halve nitrogen output by 2030 will force some Dutch farmers out of business, according to a government plan published earlier this month. Hundreds of farmers gathered in The Hague on Tuesday accompanied by two cows.