Farmers across Europe grab their pitchforks and take to the streets...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : By 2030, according to UN reports, the world's population will grow to 8.5 billion, and possibly even reach 9.8 billion by 2050.
46% : Demonstrations are also occurring in France, Germany, and Poland, where farmers are expressing discontent over rising costs, low agricultural prices, the influx of inexpensive imports, and restrictions imposed by EU policies aimed at addressing climate change.
44% : Ukraine, ironically, is the greatest target of their ire; despite its bloody war with Russia, Ukrainian goods - which are not subject to EU customs duties -- continue to flow westward at prices far lower than their European competitors.
38% : Meanwhile, earlier this month, Italian farmers gathered in central Rome to urge Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to provide additional support for farming and oppose EU regulations they believe are harmful to their sector.
25% : In the Netherlands, another country beholden to EU bureaucrats, the Dutch government's limitations on nitrogen emissions may result in the shutdown of approximately 3,000 farms.

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