Europe’s Farm Protests Are a Warning America Shouldn’t Ignore
Technocracy crushes every minority group that gets its way, including farmers and ranchers. Technocrats want you to eat their bioengineered, lab-produced food. The Blackrocks of the world want to gobble all of the natural resources (ie, land).
This plan traces back decades, including centers of international planning and agendas designed to centralize land and assets. The Use of Land, Agenda 21, the 2030 Agenda, and the tokenization of assets are all part of a pattern pushing control away from local people. If these forces keep moving unopposed, the risk is a global, structural collapse of independent food production.
I want to be very clear.
Yes, I am a regenerative farmer. Yes, I farm without chemicals and speak publicly about better ways to grow food. But I refuse to paint farmers as villains when policy and markets are stacked against them.
No one wants to be the generation that loses the farm.
And yet that is exactly what is unfolding across Europe right now…and quietly, steadily, in the United States as well.
Over the past two years, farmers across Europe have mobilized at a scale that should dominate headlines. Instead, it has been treated as background noise.
From the Netherlands to France and Germany, farmers are blocking roads, surrounding cities with tractors, and publicly dumping produce to make a point. These are not flash mobs; they are sustained, cross-border protests by people who feed entire continents. The common thread is clear: rules made far from fields are squeezing producers out.
Europe’s rules often treat complex biology like a spreadsheet. Arbitrary nitrogen caps, one-size-fits-all reporting, and land-use mandates ignore soil type, climate, and on-farm practices. That kind of regulation rewards consolidation and punishes nuance.
This is about more than fertilizer numbers. There are fully regenerative operations with no synthetic inputs that still face the same fate because compliance costs and blanket rules make small-scale farming impossible. Biology and ecosystems do not behave like averages in a model.
When regulation focuses on inputs instead of outcomes, the result is consolidation. Small and mid-size farms fold first, land is sold, and institutional investors move in. Farmers become tenants or vanish, and local food systems erode.
Cows on grass are not the same as animals in confinement, and cover-cropped fields with livestock integration are not the same as continuous monoculture. Rainfall, slope, and ecosystem function matter, but modern policy rarely accounts for that. Enforcement is distant and uniform, while impacts are local and varied.
If the goal is fewer chemicals, ban the chemical and let farmers adapt. Regulating farmers themselves with razor-thin inputs and crushing paperwork does not cut corporate power or improve public health. It just centralizes production and protects big players with powerful lobbies.
In the United States the regulatory burden is already crushing innovation and direct marketing. Joel Salatin’s line, “Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal,” resonates because so many common-sense practices are effectively banned or gated behind expensive compliance. Every permit and inspection functions like a tax on small producers.
Americans are sicker than ever even with heavy regulation—more than 40 percent of adults are obese and nearly half have prediabetes or diabetes. Regulation has not produced a healthier nation; it has protected entrenched interests and made fresh, local food harder to access. The system often shields chemical and seed conglomerates while squeezing the people who actually grow food.
European farmers are not extremists. They are early warning systems.
They show how overreach destroys resilience and hands control to distant capital. They are asking for a simple fix: talk to farmers, measure outcomes, and regulate dangerous substances rather than dictating farm-level recipes from off-site offices.
Invite producers to the table, reduce red tape, and focus regulators on harmful chemicals instead of making routine farming illegal. The alternative is predictable: land consolidation, deeper corporate control, and less secure food systems. Once you regulate farmers out of existence, you do not get them back.