> Let's hope butter and bacon from Poland is going to cover our needs.

That's really hilarious: Poland imports it's pork from Denmark.

(ASF and almost no piglets breeding)

> Let's hope butter and bacon from Poland is going to cover our needs.

Pole here - Poland switched form being a pork exporter to an importer over the course of the last few decades.

Top external suppliers are...

Denmark (53kt)

Belgium (50kt)

Germany (44kt)

The Netherlands (24.5kt)

Spain (24.5kt)

Our issues in The Netherlands are probably similar to Denmark's and the biggest issue is not all agriculture. Meat and milk production has an outweighed impact on destroying the environment. You need far more land to grow crops to feed livestock and keeping cows leads to a lot of nitrogen deposition.

We can reduce land use and have food security if people were not so intend on eating/drinking animal products every day (and there are perfectly fine vegetarian alternatives).

I believe the insistence on being a major agricultural producer in the EU despite having some of the largest population densities in the region has a lot to do with it.

A huge chunk of that output is purely for export.

That depends on how you define "perfectly fine". All of the vegetarian alternatives have a lower protein quality index, which matters if you're trying to get enough of the essential amino acid s without increasing calorie intake.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2024.1406618

If we end up going hungry (or food prices spiking), then this policy might be adjusted.

It's not like this will happen overnight anyways.