RFK Jr. The Defender - June 26, 2022


Manufactured Food Shortages with Christian Westbrook


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Length

29 minutes

Words per Minute

178.4398

Word Count

5,261

Sentence Count

257

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

6


Summary

Christian Westbrook is an agricultural researcher, author, and founder of The Ice Age Farmer Podcast, which looks deeply at the future of our food supply from the agenda to centralize control of food and defile our diets with insects, chemicals, and lab-grown meat, to those challenges that most inform our response: a rapid move to emerge and decentralize and regenerative food systems, which he has been advocating for many years. Christian is a permaculturist, homesteader, and father with a background in artificial intelligence and a deep love for humanity. In this episode, he talks about why we need to prepare for a food shortage and what we can do about it, and how we can find a way to get ahead of the curve in order to make the transition to food production more sustainable and more resilient. This episode is brought to you by Return Engagement, a production of Gimlet Media. Back Engagement is a partnership between Gimlet and The Rockefeller Foundation. Back engagement is a joint venture between the Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the Global Alliance for Food Security, a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting hunger and hunger around the world. Backengagement with food and education in the fight against hunger and poverty. The Gates Foundation is dedicated to educating, training, and equipping people with the tools and equipment to help fight hunger and provide food access and access to nutritious food. Back Engaging people with access to food, shelter, education, and a better life through food, education and training in the field of food, medicine, and nutrition, and care, and so much more! Back engagement with food, food, and food, is a service, and we re-supporting the people who need it the most in the 21st century, and they re-equipping them with everything they need to thrive and thrive in a world where they can learn, grow food, not just enough of it to eat and grow enough food to eat the best of it, so they can thrive in the best way possible, and learn how to eat healthiest and get the most of their day-to-day life on the land they can grow the best food, they can access access to access to the best meals, and access the most nutritious food, to access the best practices they can get the best and access everything they can afford, to learn and access it all they need, to get access to a better world they can achieve the best rest and access their dreams.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, my guest today for return engagement is Christian Westbrook, who is an agricultural researcher, author, and he is the founder of the Ice Age Farmer broadcast, iceagefarmer.com.
00:00:15.000 Which looks deeply at the future of our food supply from the agenda to centralize control of food and defile our diets with insects, chemicals, and lab-grown meat to those challenges that most inform our response.
00:00:33.000 A rapid move to emerge and decentralize and regenerative food systems, which he has been advocating for many years.
00:00:41.000 Christian is a permaculturist, homesteader, and a father with a background in artificial intelligence.
00:00:47.000 And I would say a deep love for humanity.
00:00:50.000 Thank you for returning to the show.
00:00:53.000 It's my pleasure to be back, Bobby.
00:00:54.000 Thanks very much.
00:00:55.000 So tell us, right now, it's kind of common knowledge that we're headed for a food crisis.
00:01:02.000 We've announced it, telegraphed it.
00:01:05.000 What are the causes of the food shortage crisis?
00:01:10.000 That's a big question, Bobby.
00:01:11.000 And, you know, we can go back.
00:01:13.000 It's hard to even know where to start with that, because certainly we can go back to even under George W. Bush, right before Obama, liquidating the U.S.'s Strategic Grain Reserves.
00:01:21.000 Of course, you know, even going back further than that, the whole Rockefeller takeover of agriculture and this gradual destruction of the way that humans have grown food since the dawn of time and replacing it with what we now call modern but highly toxic petrochemical agriculture.
00:01:37.000 And so I would really say that this is a generations long plan, but probably you're asking more about this acute situation.
00:01:44.000 And so that's one where I think governments have been, in fact, it's now bearing out that governments have been overstating, particularly the USDA, have been overstating their stocks for some time.
00:01:53.000 And so we've been sort of cruising for a day of reckoning at any rate.
00:01:58.000 And of course, within the last two years, we've had supply chain challenges because of Corona.
00:02:02.000 A series of weather challenges, diesel shortages now, parts shortages, sort of a confluence of things.
00:02:08.000 Even just the inflation itself is a form of real economic trial for farmers.
00:02:13.000 And all of these things together spell a perfect storm that is, as we're seeing, having very real effects on the availability and production of food.
00:02:23.000 And when you talk about the Rockefeller plan, you're talking about the Green Revolution, right?
00:02:28.000 Absolutely, yeah.
00:02:29.000 So that as an outset, and then this Green Revolution 2.0, you know, I know you're familiar with Vandana Shiva, and she speaks frequently about the Green Revolution 2.0, where the Gates Foundation has sort of taken off where that Rockefeller agriculture left off and doing things now to the, you know, the 21st century, really taking over, trying to patent and own the very genetics that make up our entire ecosystem.
00:02:55.000 So that sort of warfare On all of the vast biodiversity of plants and wildlife that feed us, now it's all being rephrased to animals and even plant life is dirty and dangerous.
00:03:08.000 And that's a phrase that I've used consistently through the years because that is really the way that they seek to characterize our interaction with animals and our dependence on food that we eat grown in nature.
00:03:19.000 That's not what, you know, a transhumanist technocrat wants to see because anyone can grow food and you can save seeds from heirloom varieties.
00:03:27.000 The abundance that flows from this, and I hope we talk more about how easy and rewarding it is to cultivate food.
00:03:34.000 I think it's something innate to humanity and it is that exactly, that relationship with nature and to God that That the transhumanists seek to sever when they take from us that ability to cultivate our own food, even just looking at what makes us who we are.
00:03:49.000 So many of our holidays are tied to the harvest calendar and to our relationship with Earth.
00:03:54.000 And so all of this really spells a reformatting of humanity and overriding it with human 2.0 and food 2.0 is part of that.
00:04:03.000 And that's why we're seeing this war on agriculture, the absolute war on real meat, Replacing it with lab meat, replacing the organic good farms with now this technocratic approach, the vertical indoor farms, of course, that they were controlled.
00:04:19.000 So at the core of it, you know, as Kissinger said, this is a bid for total control.
00:04:24.000 His words were, if you control oil, you control nations, but if you control food, you control people.
00:04:29.000 And that, at the end of the day, is really the name of the game right now.
00:04:33.000 I wrote about a lot of these issues in my book, The Real Anthony Fauci, and about...
00:04:39.000 Particularly about the Gates, the transition from Rockefeller to the Gates Foundation in engineering this broader transition of traditional agriculture, of subsistence agriculture, and particularly in Africa,
00:04:54.000 from sorghum, from barley, from cassava, plantains, etc., to try to Integrate African farmers into the kind of globalist agenda, persuading them that the United States and our large corporations like Kraft and McDonald's and Cargill could lift them out of poverty if they will only transition to Monsanto's GMO
00:05:24.000 corn and to round up ready agriculture to chemical fertilizers.
00:05:30.000 And one of the things that Gates has done over the past several years is to finance the construction of supply chains.
00:05:38.000 And by the way, he is heavily invested in all of those companies in Kraft and McDonald's and Coca-Cola and Cargill and Monsanto, create a supply chain in Africa, and then to use his economic power and his political power over the and then to use his economic power and his political power over the WHO to persuade African governments to pressure their own citizens to transition to this And
00:06:06.000 And the real, I think, reckoning has happened in Africa during the The COVID pandemic, during the lockdowns, when those supply chains were shut down to the United States, and the corn was rotting on the dock, and the Africans, who believed in the Gates agenda,
00:06:24.000 and Bill Clinton, who promised to go in the 90s, to go into those countries and lift them out of poverty, And suddenly we turned off the economic relationships with the United States and you had 10,000 African children, according to the New York Times, starving to death every month because of the shutdown of agriculture.
00:06:46.000 And I don't want to talk a lot, dominate this.
00:06:48.000 I'm just summarizing kind of all the things that you've been talking about.
00:06:52.000 And you referred to Vandana Shiva and her critique of Bill Gates because We have seed banks that were created, international seed banks, that were created to preserve heritage seeds that humanity has used to grow crops, in some cases for 20,000 generations, and a lot of those seeds are being lost.
00:07:18.000 There was an international effort to preserve them.
00:07:21.000 We preserved them in seed banks around the world, about a dozen seed banks.
00:07:27.000 And somehow Bill Gates has gone and gotten control of those seed banks and is doing genetic engineering on the seeds in order to alter them just enough so that he can patent them.
00:07:39.000 And it's a really, it's a bid to create a new asset class, which is nature.
00:07:46.000 A multi-trillion dollar asset class that we're All of the commons can be liquidated for cash, can be privatized, including our food.
00:07:56.000 And part of that effort appears to be Gates's crusade to control farmland in our country and around the world.
00:08:04.000 He is now the biggest owner of farmland in the United States.
00:08:08.000 And as you said, part of the agenda seems to be getting human beings off the farm.
00:08:13.000 He's partnered with Apple and Google to create robotic farmers and is a very, very kind of sinister agenda.
00:08:21.000 Without a doubt, a lot of that flows from the Gates Ag One Foundation that was set up just to do exactly what you say.
00:08:27.000 They say, well, we're going to bring enlightenment to you.
00:08:30.000 Agriculture enlightenment.
00:08:31.000 And here's our special CRISPR engineered seeds that are going to give you better yields and keep you coming back for more.
00:08:37.000 Yeah, it's sinister.
00:08:38.000 It only begins to really scratch the surface, if you ask me, of the depth of how evil this agenda really is.
00:08:45.000 Yeah, I mean, you said a lot there, and I'm just trying to think.
00:08:47.000 The seed banks are another example of how they are trying to centralize and then take control over really the library of Earth's genetics that have gotten us this far.
00:08:58.000 And that is one thing.
00:08:59.000 I think those efforts are noble, and we should all actually continue to do that.
00:09:04.000 The problem, if you ask me, the problem there was that it was a centralized effort, right?
00:09:07.000 Collecting all of these things in one place, which then afforded him the opportunity to seize control.
00:09:12.000 And that's why I think the key word, you know, as you said at the outset, the key action that we all have to be taking right now is to be doing it ourselves, is to be growing things in our own garden, is to be saving those seeds.
00:09:22.000 And that's, again, this is the way it was done.
00:09:25.000 That's why you have the mortgage lifter heirloom variety of tomatoes, because it actually saved, you know, Uncle Jim Bob's house three generations ago, or Granny had her special zucchinis that always were prolific come fall.
00:09:39.000 There were people and stories behind these heirloom varieties because that's where they all came from and they've been sort of filtered down to a few select few that maybe we recognize and then the big few varieties that are owned by the seed companies at this point and they just want to continue to corral people in those directions.
00:09:56.000 So you're exactly right there.
00:09:58.000 Another part of that agenda that really gets kind of diabolical is the whole fake food trend, which we're being pressured constantly at restaurants, at grocery stores, through advertising and through kind of a moral...
00:10:18.000 Rectitude telegraphing and signaling to eat fake foods like Impossible Burgers.
00:10:23.000 And when you actually look into them, they are the opposite of healthy.
00:10:27.000 They're the opposite of environmental friendly.
00:10:30.000 But they, again, allow these chemists to control our food supply.
00:10:35.000 That's it.
00:10:36.000 And I'm glad you said they're both...
00:10:37.000 They're terrible for us.
00:10:38.000 They're full of phytoestrogens and all sorts of nasty...
00:10:40.000 It just looks like dog food, really, when you look at the ingredient labels.
00:10:43.000 But also, it was important that you mention it's also terrible for the environment because all of these products come from this soy protein or pea protein, either of which are farmed in vast monoculture, monocropped farms, which is the beginning.
00:10:58.000 This is the genesis of the problem that we're describing today.
00:11:00.000 That's how we got...
00:11:01.000 into a position of food shortage in the first place with these modern commercial monocropping farms.
00:11:07.000 That's why we need to be talking more about the return to, again, decentralized and regenerative systems that can be producing for all of us going forward.
00:11:14.000 Absolutely.
00:11:15.000 And part of that, you know, when you have a monoculture, the only way it is, it's like a circus for pests.
00:11:23.000 And the only way to preserve monocultures from pests is the intensive use of chemical pesticides.
00:11:32.000 So those impossible burgers that you're eating because you think you're being healthy are actually just, you're just eating glyphosate and neonicotides and the worst kind of witch's brew of toxics that you're putting in your system every time you bite into an impossible burger.
00:11:48.000 Yeah, and you're exactly right.
00:11:50.000 A circus of insects, though, is a buffet of cash for Monsanto, right?
00:11:56.000 So there's a reason that these same industries are involved in this takeover of agriculture.
00:12:00.000 They want to be there from the get-go.
00:12:02.000 And even there, I think it's clear at this point that we're at the tail end of a dying, you know, these are not sustainable.
00:12:08.000 And so when I say that, it means you can only sort of play that game and deplete the soil and spray nasty, toxic stuff on your crops and eke out a yield for so long.
00:12:17.000 And we're getting to the end of that paradigm, not just from the depleted soil, which means that the vegetables in our supermarkets aren't actually nutritious anymore.
00:12:25.000 Not only that, but, you know, for example, I saw a story coming out of Florida that said there's a citrus disease that's been gradually taking more and more of the production out of the trees.
00:12:36.000 And at this point, they're, you know, the scientists are frantically working on it, but they're just now trying to extend the lifecycle of these trees by a couple more years.
00:12:45.000 And then we'll deal with the problem when we get there.
00:12:48.000 Right.
00:12:48.000 So it's a massive case, not just the oranges, but across the board of kicking the can.
00:12:53.000 How long can we get away with these terrible agricultural practices?
00:12:57.000 How long can we get away with shoving animals into unspeakably horrible conditions in these CAFOs, the concentrated animal feeding operations?
00:13:05.000 No one in their right mind would advocate that this kind of monocropping at scale or the CAFOs are the right way to do things, or even a moral way.
00:13:15.000 It's just, it's atrocious.
00:13:17.000 And I think everyone...
00:13:18.000 I would say that.
00:13:19.000 The next step, though, is not just to condemn the way we've been doing it, because, I mean, that's what's being done, is they're pointing at this thing that they have created and saying, this is disgusting.
00:13:28.000 And that's why we need to fail forward into, you know, our CRISPR-modified fake meat and to our...
00:13:35.000 Genetically engineered dinosaur.
00:13:37.000 They've actually done some, there's a few companies, some of which Bill Gates funds, that are looking at taking extinct animal DNA and then recreate, it's like Jurassic Park all over again, recreating meats so you can experience the mouthfeel and unique taste of a woolly mammoth.
00:13:53.000 This is the kind of technocratic nastiness that they want to.
00:13:56.000 That's why I say they're defiling the food supply.
00:13:59.000 All of this is why there's a war on I mean, the World Economic Forum actually talks about the post-animal economy.
00:14:19.000 And so when I say there's a war on meat, that's not rhetoric and that's not an exaggeration.
00:14:22.000 This is all actually very much in the open, heading towards that post-animal economy.
00:14:28.000 You know, we've heard also about food plants being destroyed and food shipments and supply chains.
00:14:37.000 How real is all that?
00:14:39.000 I mean, I don't know how you would say it's fake.
00:14:40.000 These things are actually exploding.
00:14:41.000 And when you look at the frequency of these events, you know, it was already on an uptick a couple of years ago when I started talking about how our...
00:14:48.000 It seems like our food supply...
00:14:49.000 Give an example of a plant that's been destroyed.
00:14:52.000 I can give you a litany of examples from grain silos and grain elevators, plenty of barn fires.
00:14:59.000 The port of Beirut is one that's particularly noteworthy because it's not only was it a huge explosion, but it has catapulted Lebanon into a food crisis in which, you know, they've already got an economic crisis.
00:15:11.000 And so the situation is pretty dire down there.
00:15:13.000 But that was a very visual example because that's their main grain reserve right there in the port, which exploded.
00:15:20.000 And so they were up a creek at that point.
00:15:22.000 With the U.S., there's just many more facilities, but there have been sugar refineries, grain elevators, and grain silos, like I said, which means the farmers often have no place to take the wheat when they harvest.
00:15:33.000 And you can find a video that I made that just goes through a long list of these things.
00:15:37.000 In fact, if you go to iceagefarmer.com slash fire, there's a map of...
00:15:43.000 Some number of these events right there.
00:15:44.000 That's a good, convenient way to pull up the data.
00:15:48.000 Yeah, I mean, during the COVID crisis, you had the same thing happen to ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine suction facilities, including one of the biggest in the world, which was in Taiwan, that was mysteriously burned to the ground in what was called an unsolved arson fire.
00:16:08.000 And, you know, it's hard to even talk about this stuff without even sounding like a conspiracy theorist, but it's pretty eerie how kind of regularly it's happening.
00:16:18.000 Yeah, without a doubt.
00:16:19.000 You know, the flip side is if you don't want to talk about this because you're worried that someone will think that you're crazy, there is plenty of open, objective stuff that we can talk about.
00:16:27.000 You know, this is, I would argue we're now, maybe, and this is what's interesting, Bobby, is if we'd had this conversation a year or two ago, it would have been a very different conversation.
00:16:35.000 You know, for one, there weren't already empty shelves.
00:16:38.000 And so a lot of this would have been me saying, look, I'm hearing from farmers that the government is lying.
00:16:42.000 We've got these natural cycles of the sun, which mean we're going to have more challenging seasons ahead.
00:16:47.000 And they're openly talking about it.
00:16:49.000 Look at the food chain reaction game, which is still worth talking about it.
00:16:51.000 But now we're already, you know, the ship has sailed.
00:16:55.000 We're already in the middle of a food crisis.
00:16:56.000 Like you said, we've got Biden, but also Trudeau and the German Chancellor Schultz all saying, yeah, we're going to enter food shortages here.
00:17:05.000 But stunningly, none of them offer any solutions, right?
00:17:08.000 None of them Let's talk about how we did this in World War II and there were victory gardens and we were actually able to contribute using backyard gardens.
00:17:16.000 Make an impact, right?
00:17:17.000 Make a meaningful, sizable, impactful difference in our food systems when everyone just went outside of their backyard and had a few square feet of garden space.
00:17:27.000 It doesn't take a whole lot to actually really move the needle on that.
00:17:30.000 And that's something, you know, that's just...
00:17:32.000 To really amplify the good news here is that we actually can make a difference.
00:17:36.000 But yeah, so the food chain reaction game was one example of where they sort of tipped the hat here.
00:17:40.000 And so to sort of...
00:17:42.000 The short story there is just as event 201 looked forward and sort of predicted that there would be a coronavirus outbreak and sort of walked through what the scenario would look like, these tabletop exercises, a similar thing was done by George Soros funded, John Podesta run, food chain reaction game in 2015,
00:18:01.000 which looked ahead to the year 2020 and said due to climate change and a series of financial and economic problems, which looked ahead to the year 2020 and said due to climate change and a series of financial and economic problems, there would be interruptions into the supply chains that would And this would cause food prices to rise.
00:18:19.000 And at that point, things would get really crazy because countries would start stop exporting their food to other countries.
00:18:26.000 And of course, there are some countries who are net importers, meaning they depend on the exports of other breadbasket countries to feed their people.
00:18:33.000 You know, when the food chain reaction game ran through this, they eventually, after some rounds of deliberation, they got to the point where they said, we need better international cooperation, right?
00:18:44.000 We shouldn't have countries acting on their own behalf.
00:18:47.000 These pesky nation states aren't going to do it.
00:18:50.000 We need global governance to get through these global problems, right?
00:18:54.000 That's of course what they would come up with.
00:18:55.000 And then actually, they also said, we need a carbon tax.
00:18:58.000 And in Europe, they came up with a meat tax as well.
00:19:00.000 So this was only six years ago.
00:19:04.000 And since then, the Rockefeller Foundation has released a paper about resetting the table, the need to fundamentally transform the food systems of the United States.
00:19:13.000 There's a commission called the Eat Lancet Commission, which has been working hand in hand with the World Economic Forum.
00:19:20.000 In fact, they call themselves the Davos of food.
00:19:22.000 And they have been describing how...
00:19:25.000 A fundamental transformation.
00:19:26.000 They call it the great food transformation, about how this need to, again, reset all.
00:19:31.000 They always throw in these same keywords, reset the food systems of the planet, the great reset, to ensure that we get to an equitable, sustainable food system.
00:19:40.000 Well, all of that is talking about the changes that you and I are already talking about.
00:19:44.000 Moving to fake food, moving off of natural farming because animals are dirty and dangerous.
00:19:49.000 So when you look at the Food Chain Reaction Game and these simulations and these plans that are all open, it's actually quite easy to say, you know, there's a group of people that have the means, motive, and have had the opportunity now to make a move to shut down the food production of humanity in order to try and attempt a hostile takeover.
00:20:09.000 And we're now in the process of that.
00:20:12.000 We're walking through the script that Food Chain Reaction Game described.
00:20:16.000 Let me go back to another thing you talked about, which is the decline of nutrients in food.
00:20:21.000 The fact that we're eating a lot of volume, but that there is basically almost nothing healthy that's left in it.
00:20:28.000 You know, if you eat an ear of corn today, A lot of the traditional nutrients and minerals that were part of that bushel, the original bushel, have been leached out by pesticides and they're simply not available for uptake in the impoverished soils in which these plants are now growing.
00:20:53.000 That's right, yeah.
00:20:54.000 Yeah, you don't have any other kind of data on the decline of nutrients in foods.
00:20:59.000 I don't have it on me handy.
00:21:01.000 I think there are plenty of actually studies on this, just taking a look at, you know, if you pick up some greens from the supermarket shelves, what's actually in that at this point?
00:21:08.000 And how do you compare that to if you were growing this in your backyard and you had it immediately upon harvesting it fresh while there's still living enzymes and all of the nutrients haven't yet started to be metabolized by the plant while it's en route to you?
00:21:22.000 Then it's just, you know, it's not even comparable.
00:21:26.000 It's just a real superfood in your backyard compared to just dead leaves at the supermarket.
00:21:31.000 What are the central political challenges to solving this issue?
00:21:35.000 Or what are the challenges that are driving it?
00:21:38.000 Honestly, I don't see a whole lot of leadership left in the US, under any color.
00:21:43.000 It was under Bush and Obama, we were liquidating our strategic grain reserves and waging complete economic warfare on our farmers.
00:21:50.000 Even under Trump, we opened up the doors and we're shipping as much, record, record, record amounts of corn.
00:21:56.000 And other grains and soybeans out to China.
00:21:58.000 That's continued under Biden.
00:22:00.000 Biden has waged complete warfare on farmers.
00:22:03.000 One of the first things he did on his first day in office was pass a series of executive orders that told the USDA they needed to go to a net zero carbon emissions, meaning farming has to be complete.
00:22:14.000 It's It's really crazy what the USDA is putting people through.
00:22:17.000 They're actively moving more land into environmental conservation and taking it out of production.
00:22:23.000 So there's just a long list of things that the Biden administration is doing to make life for farmers very harder, including adding to the inheritance tax so that farms really just can't change hands.
00:22:35.000 And that's war on the generational American farms at the heart of it.
00:22:41.000 So it's a big question.
00:22:42.000 I don't see any real leadership within the U.S. government.
00:22:45.000 I see mostly people that are shepherding through the agenda that's coming down from the WEF and the technocrats at the UN. The United Nations Food Systems Summit described a lot of the things we're talking about today, which was that summit was heavily infiltrated by Gates Foundation-funded people.
00:23:01.000 So within the U.S. government, I just don't see a lot of resistance from the agenda or anywhere, yeah.
00:23:08.000 How about on the ground in farm country?
00:23:10.000 Are there any organizations like the Farmers Union, which used to stand up for a lot of these issues?
00:23:17.000 Are there any organizations like that that people should support?
00:23:21.000 Yeah, I think.
00:23:38.000 This is true of most people around the world, but particularly of Americans.
00:23:42.000 We have lived for so long as we entered the grocery store and see this multicolored, you know, I love the rainbow assortment of all sorts of produce and fruits and vegetables from around the world.
00:23:53.000 Somehow it's always just been there, which means that a lot of people think that somehow it will always just be there.
00:24:00.000 And right now, we're finding that that's not going to be true.
00:24:03.000 So hopefully this is that opportunity where because of the last two years and the way things have gone down, you know, I think it's very hard for anyone who is intellectually honest and looking at the situation in the last few years to say that This was just some accident.
00:24:18.000 It was a series of miscalculations and missteps on their part.
00:24:21.000 And maybe they were wrong about that.
00:24:23.000 It's like, no, this was a very deliberate, intentional warfare going on in our population.
00:24:28.000 And that warfare extends into the domain of food.
00:24:30.000 And so, again, the natural reaction for us all is not to depend on the government to save us, but to go out and start those victory gardens and save those seeds.
00:24:39.000 We start this amazing...
00:24:42.000 Heirloom genetics that make up a resilient food system.
00:24:46.000 It's not just Monsanto seeds for everyone on Earth.
00:24:49.000 It's everybody has something and maybe yours fails, but that's alright because I've got one now.
00:24:52.000 And that's where true sustainability comes from.
00:24:56.000 Christian, how do we resist this?
00:24:58.000 If you're an average American family, what should you be doing?
00:25:03.000 Yeah, so the natural response to a takeover of food production is for us to all start growing food, is to move back to decentralized food production.
00:25:12.000 And I say back to because it is the way that humanity for most of its existence has been there, right?
00:25:18.000 We all used to grow some amount of food.
00:25:21.000 And it was great, because if I had a bad harvest, and that happens sometimes, if I have a bad year, then I can go to my neighbor next door and borrow some of his potatoes and get through the season, plus plant some of those and come back next year, and I can be there for him, vice versa, in the following season.
00:25:36.000 We've all sort of had our back like that.
00:25:39.000 So it's a safety net for our species, as well as just being a very sensible way to do things.
00:25:44.000 Compared to what we've just been describing in this conversation, which is a completely centralized ownership model where total control lies in the hands of very few people, and they are actively using that to turn it into a toxic food system that's poisoning us.
00:26:00.000 So yeah, the natural reaction is for us all to start growing our own food, for us all to build gardens and get involved with a return to local regenerative food systems.
00:26:09.000 And I already hear some people saying, well, great, I've got a black thumb.
00:26:13.000 I'm not really one for the garden.
00:26:14.000 The good news here for you is, well, first of all, I would say, try it anyway.
00:26:18.000 A lot of people are very surprised when they actually go out there and connect with the plants and get their hands dirty at how quickly you learn.
00:26:24.000 And I'm working on a book right now, but I've been working on a YouTube channel for years that is all about getting people to overcome that fear, to really just get out there and try things and try putting the focus on growing good soil.
00:26:37.000 Because when you grow good soil, you almost can't help but produce lots of amazing plants.
00:26:42.000 But getting out there, if you don't want to get, you know, if that's not really your forte or you don't have the space for it, I promise you, whatever your background is, whatever your unique skills, your unique experience is from your life, we need you right now.
00:26:56.000 Like this is, as I said, we've passed the go point for a global food crisis.
00:27:01.000 And that means that's going to be on top of all these other things we're going through, the economic challenges, You know, they're talking about grids down and other situations.
00:27:10.000 It looks pretty hairy here for a time in the near future here.
00:27:14.000 And so whatever it is that you've experienced in your life, this is the time where you bring that to the table and we all come and there are people needed to You know, stand up new websites with shopping carts for the farmer down the street who, maybe he had a deal for how to get his food to market before, but because of the supply chain going crazy, he needs a new way to connect directly with consumers in the area.
00:27:36.000 And if you're a web kind of a person, then you can do that.
00:27:39.000 that if you're a lawyer there are plenty of legal challenges facing farmers right now and there's a need for you to work with your city council to try and grease the skids of a local food systems maybe you're able to provide if not subsidies then tax breaks for local producers if they sell within the community you know whatever you can do whatever knowledge of an experience you've got bring it to the table right now try and fix this food system that is in your community around you so that you guys are better off
00:28:08.000 that's that's the the bottom line bobby on how as americans we respond to a global food situation christian tell us again how people can reach you and support you Thank you.
00:28:20.000 Yeah, I have a website at iceagefarmer.com where you can find all my reports going back to the very beginning.
00:28:26.000 Somehow I am still on YouTube, but a lot of my videos don't stay on there.
00:28:31.000 So the way to really peruse the depth of research on the zero carbon agenda and all of these food issues and on the solar cycles is on iceagefarmer.com.
00:28:41.000 I've also got the Telegram channel at t.me slash iceagefarmer.
00:28:46.000 Thank you very much, Christian, and I want to invite you to post anything that YouTube takes off.
00:28:53.000 We would love to have it on CHDTV, and we would love to give you a place to talk to the public reliably on our network.
00:29:02.000 So keep that in mind, and thank you again for your work, for this invaluable information.
00:29:09.000 I will keep that in mind.
00:29:10.000 I appreciate it.
00:29:11.000 And thanks very much.
00:29:12.000 Christian Westbrook, thank you for your activism and for your thoughtful opposition to this good attack against our food supply and against humanity and democracy and national sovereignty and all the other weird stuff that's going on now.
00:29:28.000 Thank you very much.