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In 2020, The Netherlands was the second-largest exporter of food (excluding fish) globally, behind only the United States [1]. I would say its fairly rare for me to go to the supermarket here and buy food that was produced outside of Europe.

[1] https://www.fao.org/3/cb9928en/cb9928en.pdf




> In 2020, The Netherlands was the second-largest exporter of food

Much of which is produced in greenhouses heated by Russian gas ... not sure what your point is.


Netherlands imports about 20% of it's energy, spiking to 35%: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.IMP.CONS.ZS?location...

The Netherlands is one of the more energy independent countries in the EU generally speaking.

a large percentage of those 20% imports are actually from France.




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