Climate obsessed governments are reducing world food supplies
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we discuss the latest attack on food production around the world by climate zealots, and why we should be worried about it. We ve all heard of the horrors of climate change, and now we re turning our attention to food production as a means to fight climate change.
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And think about it, if you want to control a population, control its food supply, right?
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I mean, we're in this world where every little entitlement and desire is defined as a need or a human right,
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and people are protesting for it, yet at the same time we're quietly letting ideologically driven political leaders
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threaten what there is a very real right to and need for reliable, affordable food supplies.
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So this latest attack on food production that we're reading about comes from Ireland,
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where the government's proposing the slaughter of 200,000 dairy cows in an effort to reach EU climate change targets.
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Now, the climate impact of culling these animals is going to be negligible at best,
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but the impact on Irish consumers and food producers is going to be immediate and harsh.
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I mean, dairy products, they're infused into most European food supplies.
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The slaughter of these cattle is going to immediately raise prices on most food items,
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and it's probably going to put a lot of producers out of work, and not going to do a bloody thing for the environment.
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They're undeterred by protests or economic reality.
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They just want to shut down human activity by all and any means possible.
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You're not talking about rational, reasonable people here.
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Even in Sri Lanka, I mean, this is a nation that's not a stranger to hard times and famine and relatively recent memory.
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Well, their government imposed ridiculous regulations banning types of fertilizer
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and encouraging these inefficient organic growing practices.
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At least with them, they got stirred up enough it spawned protests that actually took down their own government.
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In the Netherlands, the state's been at war with its own farmers since 2019,
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when nationwide protests were spawned by nitrogen and ammonia bans at the expense of the agricultural producers.
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Farm protests have been crippling their nation at times, but the government's still undeterred,
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and they're working towards forcing the reduction of livestock herds
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and taking land away from agricultural producers in the Netherlands.
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And hey, don't think it's just happening overseas, guys.
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The Trudeau government suggested a 30% reduction in fertilizer use by agricultural producers.
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I mean, such a reduction would deeply cut into crop outputs,
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and the notion sparked a quick backlash from Canadian agricultural producers.
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The government then hastily pointed out the 30% reduction is voluntary for producers.
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But of course, what they're saying is, for now.
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They put $8.5 million into a cricket production facility.
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Your tax dollars went to cricket production while they're attacking food production here.
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Don't expect rationality to come from Ottawa anytime soon.
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Justin Trudeau desperately wants to be respected on the world stage.
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He knows his intellect isn't going to get him there,
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so he's hoping his actions as a climate crusader will garner him the international adoration he wants to revel in.
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He knows nothing of supply chains, food needs, or agricultural production.
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Canada is led by a man whose servants shop for him
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and chill his favorite cereal bowl in the mornings while he tries to pick out cute socks for the day.
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He's never seen a grocery bill, much less a balance sheet from a farm.
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But he's in the position to control our food supplies.
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NGOs and environmental groups feed the agenda further.
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David Suzuki and his foundation with his many, many homes just came out against domestic beekeeping.
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Because domesticated bees, as far as they're concerned, are a form of unnatural livestock,
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Aside from the honey they produce, domestic bees are sort of an integral part of crop pollination for agricultural producers.
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Bees are actually rented by farmers for this purpose.
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Their crop yields will go down if they don't have these bees.
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That's what we've got to get driven to people's heads.
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They want to drop world populations, and they don't care what it takes to do it.
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A reduced world population would ease environmental pressures on the planet, whether from, you know,
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the reduction in trash, water contamination, emissions.
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But reducing the efficiency of food production isn't going to reduce the world's population
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It's just going to make populations desperate, hungry, and impoverished.
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The most environmentally friendly populations on the planet are all in the richest nations.
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Blue bins, emission reduction plans, comprehensive waste management, those are all luxuries developing nations lack.
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Having a low birth rate is also a luxury only afforded to wealthy nations.
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In developing nations, people need large families in order to survive and sustain a retirement.
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In developed nations such as ours, we need immigration to counter our low birth rates.
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Developing nations are also forced, of course, to use inefficient food production means,
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such as slash-and-burn farming and burning high-emitting fuels from wood to coal to even animal dung to cook their food sometimes.
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If we want to slow or even reduce human population growth, the path is through economic development for developing nations.
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Make them rich enough to afford to be nice to the environment and stop breeding like we've been able to.
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To do that, they need reliable, plentiful energy and food supplies.
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And they need to become wealthy enough to cut back on breeding.
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In other words, they need to do the opposite of what the environmentally fanatical nations are pushing them to do.
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They need natural gas networks heating their homes and generating their power.
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They need modern farms along with the associated chemicals for pest control and fertilizer.
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In other words, they need all those things that Justin Trudeau and other vain virtue-signaling world leaders are denying from them.
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Not only will we not expand development of them for ourselves,
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we're also being prevented from exporting them to those nations that need them most.
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The environmental movement's hit new, revolting extremes.
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It's working basically to starve populations into what they think is going to be a greener, new world, and it won't come.
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Are we going to act and reverse this madness and food reduction,
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or are we going to wait until the starvation actually sets in?
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And guys, it's just going to start with the developing nations.
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Don't think for a moment that we're immune for it and it won't come here next.