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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Environment
Senay Boztas in Amsterdam

Have we reached ‘peak meat’? Why one country is trying to limit its number of livestock

Cows in a meadow at a dairy farm in Zundert, the Netherlands.
Cows in a meadow at a dairy farm in Zundert, the Netherlands. Photograph: Robin Utrecht/REX/Shutterstock

Ingrid de Sain is one of thousands of dairy farmers in the Netherlands who says she sometimes lies awake at night. Since a court ruling in 2019 which found the Dutch were breaking European environmental law, her farm of 100 cows in north Holland has been illegal.

Like the other 2,500-plus farmers whose environmental permission was suddenly invalid, she wants a future where she can earn a living and farm legally again.

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