Nitrate Directive EU for Environmental Measures & Animal Welfare

June 2017, magazine "Schrot & Korn, p. 58: "German Minister of Agriculture accused 2016 by EU Commission for lack of implementation of the EU nitrate directive. The article mentions that he not only has blocked environmental measures and animal welfare measures, but he also abducted the new EU nitrate directive. Experts demand a new start in agricultural policy to protect the biodiversity of our planet. The farmer’s union in March 2017 found out that Germans claim that ethical and ecological claims are not yet met, especially environmental measures & animal welfare might be far better. Furthermore in monocultures lots of pesticides are applied and on the fields more manure is applied by extensive animal farming than the meadows can tolerate.