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Jan Dutkiewicz, assistant professor of social science and cultural studies, considers the clash between climate policy and farmer interests in the EU for Vox. “The protests have come as the EU seeks to pass a slate of laws as part of its Green Deal, a sweeping climate plan that includes checking the worst harms of industrial agriculture, which takes up more than a third of the continent’s landmass and contributes disproportionately to its ecological footprint,” writes Dutkiewicz. “That agenda is colliding with Europe’s longtime paradigm of few-strings-attached welfare for agribusiness.”