Cucumber saudis. Nice.
Two questions have long dogged Dutch farming. The first is whether quantity made up for quality: having tasted the tomatoes, cucumbers and chilies grown in its hyper-efficient greenhouses, one may be forgiven for not being able to tell them apart.
picking people over cows turns out to be politically fraught
Well, the cows are owned by millionaire farmers so it’s more a question of which people you are picking.
The Netherlands, a generally well-run place, has made a hash of adapting its economy to ecological constraints it knew about for decades. That does not bode well for everyone else.
Chaser.