It’s a simple fact that we can’t support 330 million Americans and eight billion people worldwide without modern food production methods. It’s also factual that highly efficient, hi-tech farming, enabling us to produce more food on less land, is a major reason why there’s more forested area in America today than a century ago. Following from this is that millions will starve, and struggling for survival will ravage the environment in the process, if we scuttle these modern food-production methods. Tragically, this scuttling is well underway, too — and the latest nation to mount the bandwagon to skin and bones is Ireland.
American Thinker provides some background:
First, we heard about the complete collapse of the Sri Lankan government. That occurred because the government, anxious for the approval of the World Economic Fund and other green activists, decided to mandate organic farming practices. The world had entirely organic farming in the pre-modern era and there was a name for it: subsistence farming. That meant that farmers subsisted on the margin of famine, with a single bad growing season or blighted crop sufficient to destroy a society.
Next, we learned that farmers in the Netherlands were striking because the government announced that they must reduce their nitrogen output by 30%-70%, something that will destroy farms — and that the government is seizing farmland to ensure this reduction goes forward.
Up until now, Holland has been one of the preeminent food-producing countries in the world but the farmers’ own government seeks to end that. To add insult to injury, Geert Wilders published a letter showing that the government intends to use the expropriated land to house “asylum seekers.”
Two more countries are joining the list of countries with governments that are deliberately embracing famine. Despite the disruption in the world food supply because of the two years of COVID lockdowns, Justin Trudeau’s government is planning to implement a plan from 2020 that will see the country reduce its nitrous oxide emissions by 30% over the next ten years — and, preferably, to reduce them by 40-45%. The ministers in both Alberta and Saskatchewan have complained, noting that this will substantially reduce food production.
American Thinker then points out that Canada’s plan is to transition people to insect consumption. The New American reported on this just recently in “‘Elites’ on the Common Peoples’ Food Woes: Let Them Eat Bugs.”
Many people call this agenda “The Great Reset”; in fact, Trudeau used this term himself in a September 2020 speech to the United Nations. “This [Covid] pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset,” he said; “this is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic systems.”
Whatever you call it, this madness is enveloping the Earth, and Ireland is on board, too. As Breitbart informs:
Ireland’s Minister for Agriculture, Charlie McConalogue, has already agreed to force a cut of either 27 or 28 per cent on the country’s farming sector, a move that will cause significant disruptions to local businesses.
However, the publication also claims that there is still significant pressure on McConalogue to implement a curb of 30 per cent, a measure the head of one of the country’s largest farming organisations has said would result in a massive cut in cattle numbers in the country.
“A target of 30 per cent would result in significantly reduced production, which could devastate the farming sector in Ireland,” Irish Farmers’ Association president Tim Cullinan previously said regarding such a move.
Of course, suffering most will be the poor and middle class, as it’s easy for the pseudo-elites to be idealistic because they don’t have to live with their ideals. As American Thinker quipped, “If it’s any consolation, the solons of the New World Order will also be eating bugs. After all, lobster really is kind of like the grasshopper of the sea, right?”
And as these pseudo-elites make history, the dark kind, an examination of it is now warranted. Just as transitioning from enriching Arab sheikhs with oil money in the ’90s to becoming in the 2000-teens one of the world’s largest energy exporters was a major American accomplishment (also now scuttled), so was our journey from subsistence farming to prosperity.
When late 19th-century immigrants in the U.S. wrote home, their European relatives were shocked to learn that their America-residing kin could eat meat every day. In fact, it has been said that the late 1800s American diet was perhaps among history’s most healthful (e.g., cherries were abundant and cheap), and our modern menu is no doubt why people today are considerably larger than in ages past. (The average Spartan hoplite was not the muscular beast portrayed in film, but is estimated to have been 5’5” and 135 pounds.)
It’s also, as left-wing site Think Progress informed in 2013, one reason the worldwide standard of living was then the highest in history. Why, just one “U.S. farm feeds 166 people annually in the U.S. and abroad.”
Now this prosperity coup is threatened by mad greentopians. History teaches that statist agricultural control, whatever the justification, doesn’t end well. Early 20th-century Russia was a major world food exporter; not long afterwards (1930s) under the Soviets’ Marxist program, 5.7 to 8.7 million starved to death and the nation had to import food. Millions more died of famine during Mao Tse-tung’s “Great Leap Forward” farm-collectivization schemes. And Zimbabwe had been a food exporter called “the breadbasket of Africa” until socialist dictator Robert Mugabe — using a racial justification — expropriated white farmers’ lands and starvation ensued.
Now history is repeating itself, only, saving Gaia is the current pretext. Make no mistake, either: The United States is in the crosshairs. The pseudo-elites view most of us as “useless eaters” and, while taking a dim view of fertilizer use, may not mind if most of us become fertilizer ourselves.
