Pig breeders Lies Bernaerts (27) and papa Koen (55) about the Flemish nitrogen deal: “Young people who are no longer allowed to innovate? That is the end of pig farming in Flanders”

Is pig farmer a dog trade? Flanders wants 2 million less pigs between Adinkerke and Zutendaal and 40 companies are obliged to close their barn doors by 2025. Lies Bernaerts (27) from Kalmthout comes from a family of pig farmers and does her job with great enthusiasm. “I am awake by the statement that they will be very frugal with permits from now on, they are mortgaging my entire future,” she says.

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