Climate Changed
Dutch Government Plans to Shrink Hog Industry
- Netherlands offers as much as 151 euros per pig to reduce herd
- Hog farms causing a bigger stink more likely to get subsidy
Pigs take a mud bath at a pig farm in Esch.
Photographer: Robin Utrecht/AFP via Getty Images
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The Dutch government plans to make its pig farmers pass a smell test: hog operations causing the greatest odor nuisance will be most likely to receive a payout aimed at shrinking the country’s swine herd.