I will reflect on this diet tonight as my wife and I dine on a really big beef filet wrapped in bacon (accompanied by a nice Cabernet Sauvignon or possibly Zinfandel). Grilled on the Weber of course.
More meddling into our private lives by people who who have larger “carbon footprints” than small towns. I don’t buy into the climate change nonsense but that’s the metric they use.
They should be told to pi$$ off, but unfortunately there will be elected politicians and bureaucrats who think this will be a good idea.
A serious push back will be needed.
They would have us all eating Soylent Green if they could get away with it.
“They would have us all eating Soylent Green if they could get away with it.”
That is what they are working toward after they destroy western progress with carbon taxes.
Doesn’t the UN want us to all eat crickets and grubs? Shouldn’t Westerners eat like the dirt poor 3rd worlders? What makes us think we’re “better than that”? “Meat is killing the planet!”. I know that, because my daughters middle school history teacher said so.
If the government taxes meat like gas, electricity, booze and cigarettes, I expect a robust black market meat supply. Those with land and poachers would make a killing providing untaxed livestock and wild game. Hunting (and rifle demand) would go up substantially in North America.
I thought someday we’d retire to a city but now I think there’s many benefits keeping a place in the country – more personal freedom, friendly, very little crime, few police, not enough vehicles to warrant traffic cameras and no rush hour traffic, lax bylaw and building permit enforcement. More relaxed and less uptight in general.
We have deer wandering through the yard most nights, prairie chicken visit the rose bushes, occasionally a moose in the field behind the house and a river full of fish a football field away.That’s not including local ranchers and farmers who’ll sell you pretty much any livestock and livestock products like meat, milk, honey, eggs. As well as agricultural grade pesticides, herbicides, etc. Not many government busybodies poking into people’s business.
Cities are nice too and I drive to one weekly but the more tightly controlled/monitored existence and cost of living seems to be increasing rapidly.
You’re singing my song! Only you’re already there. Me … I cannot WAIT to ESCAPE this overpopulated, homeless, illegal encampment of a Metro Bay Area. The traffic has spiked off the charts in my lifetime, yet every needed road improvement program was killed by Jerry Brown … in an attempt to FORCE us OUT of our cars. Didn’t happen. There are more cars than ever … and not enough roadways. Eco Socialism leads to misery.
Country living has its downside, too. The peaceful, quiet lifestyle would be boring for someone with a different temperament and interests. It’s certainly nicer nowadays with online shopping and home delivery by couriers. High speed internet is more expensive but not unaffordable. Having a city with an international airport 45 minutes away and a full service (grocery, pool, rink, gas, hospital, police, school, etc) small town 5 minutes away is perfect. I’ve lived further away from such services and it makes rural-ish living more of a hassle.
Yep. We’ll be snowbirds. Country living summers here and flying away to rent in warm winter locations. With carbon taxes in Canada making fuel, electricity, food and heat more and more expensive….going away every winter makes even more sense.
Driving across Western Canada, I see countless numbers of cattle grazing the grass on countless acres of land. People, and most animals, cannot eat the grass, you will starve to death eating the grass unless you are a ruminant. If the grass is not grazed, it will get too long and die. The grass grows, the cattle eat the grass, we eat the cattle. A win/win/win.
The other things experts don’t know, or don’t say, is that the land in western Canada used for cattle (and other herds) generally isn’t suitable for crops. Maybe it’s too far north so the growing season is short, the land is too dry, the fertility is low or the land isn’t flat enough for machinery. The ranches would not become crop land.
The experts also never mention that ranch land is full of biodiversity (wildlife and wild plants) while cropland is basically a monoculture and the land is cleared of trees and shrubs. Dry land crops are often irrigated. Livestock uses rain water collected in reservoirs but crops also use rain water and reservoirs. Crops require herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and fertilizer. Seeding, spraying and harvesting all use fossil fuels. GMO and gene edited plants could minimize spraying… but activists, politicians and hand picked green experts fight that too.
Anyway, this is another area where #mindyourownbusiness(MYOB) needs to be applied. Experts, politicians and and activists should be told to stay out of the nation’s kitchens, and garages/vehicles, and bedrooms, and computers, and bank accounts, and grocery carts, and garbage cans, and….
The only thing worse than those pathologically disposed to controlling every aspect of otherwise peaceful fellow citizen’s lives are the mindless drones who elect them to office and the corporate (NGO, media) and state bodies (schools) tasked with furthering such totalitarianism. The politicians are merely their pimps although the “true believers” are more dangerous than the power hungry crook.
The threshold beyond which salvaging liberty is near impossible has to be the conversion of humanity to state chattel inherent in socialized heath care. This is the rationale giving totalitarian busybodies the green light to boundlessly grow the nanny / welfare state because “we” are responsible for the costs of your health care (therefore, “we” own you). But hey, it’s free!
As a kid, I hiked the rolling hills, valleys, and creeks, of the suburban SF Bay Area. Cows and horses grazed peacefully in the bucolic setting. Now? There is NO MORE cattle grazing anywhere in the Bay Area. Not only is it “too harmful to the environment” … but it is “too harmful to allow our little girls to see meat on the hoof”. Our little vegans in training would break down into a harmful depression looking at animals whom will soon be slaughtered … just for their prime parts … and the rest thrown-away. These little girls have been carefully taught that at least the meat-eating “Native Americans” ate and used ALL of the Buffalo … but we fat-assed Americans wasted most of the Buffalo … and wiped them all off the Great Plains … just for fun and sport.
I recently toured the “Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump” site. The usual “natives used every part of the animal” and the “white eyes shot them out of the train and left them to rot” promo was given, but to their credit, the organization (in a very small, hidden portion of the display), mentioned that the natives in good times only took the tongues and left the rest to rot. I lived in Regina for several years, and I have informed people that Regina started as a pile of rotting buffalo carcasses and went downhill from there; nobody opposed me.
Of course, only Caucasoids will be expected to be satisfied to get meat only on Sunday, if at all.
The Chinese will retain the right to stuff themselves with pork at every meal.
Offspring did a semester at a Hong Kong university back in the day. Came away with the sense that – for the Chinese – pork was a vegetable, and “vegetarian” meant add veggies to pork. Got same sense from another offspring who studied in Slovakia: the vegetarian offerings were to the effect of (and I am quoting from memory): egg, egg and cheese, egg and cheese and bacon. Even th “vegetarian” lasagne would have bacon sprinkles atop the dish.
Choice quotes from Snowden at the IEA website…
“They say ‘you are what you eat’ and that must be true, because this is nuts.”
“They say they want to save the planet but it is not clear which planet are they on.”
I will reflect on this diet tonight as my wife and I dine on a really big beef filet wrapped in bacon (accompanied by a nice Cabernet Sauvignon or possibly Zinfandel). Grilled on the Weber of course.
More meddling into our private lives by people who who have larger “carbon footprints” than small towns. I don’t buy into the climate change nonsense but that’s the metric they use.
They should be told to pi$$ off, but unfortunately there will be elected politicians and bureaucrats who think this will be a good idea.
A serious push back will be needed.
They would have us all eating Soylent Green if they could get away with it.
“They would have us all eating Soylent Green if they could get away with it.”
That is what they are working toward after they destroy western progress with carbon taxes.
Doesn’t the UN want us to all eat crickets and grubs? Shouldn’t Westerners eat like the dirt poor 3rd worlders? What makes us think we’re “better than that”? “Meat is killing the planet!”. I know that, because my daughters middle school history teacher said so.
If the government taxes meat like gas, electricity, booze and cigarettes, I expect a robust black market meat supply. Those with land and poachers would make a killing providing untaxed livestock and wild game. Hunting (and rifle demand) would go up substantially in North America.
I thought someday we’d retire to a city but now I think there’s many benefits keeping a place in the country – more personal freedom, friendly, very little crime, few police, not enough vehicles to warrant traffic cameras and no rush hour traffic, lax bylaw and building permit enforcement. More relaxed and less uptight in general.
We have deer wandering through the yard most nights, prairie chicken visit the rose bushes, occasionally a moose in the field behind the house and a river full of fish a football field away.That’s not including local ranchers and farmers who’ll sell you pretty much any livestock and livestock products like meat, milk, honey, eggs. As well as agricultural grade pesticides, herbicides, etc. Not many government busybodies poking into people’s business.
Cities are nice too and I drive to one weekly but the more tightly controlled/monitored existence and cost of living seems to be increasing rapidly.
You’re singing my song! Only you’re already there. Me … I cannot WAIT to ESCAPE this overpopulated, homeless, illegal encampment of a Metro Bay Area. The traffic has spiked off the charts in my lifetime, yet every needed road improvement program was killed by Jerry Brown … in an attempt to FORCE us OUT of our cars. Didn’t happen. There are more cars than ever … and not enough roadways. Eco Socialism leads to misery.
Country living has its downside, too. The peaceful, quiet lifestyle would be boring for someone with a different temperament and interests. It’s certainly nicer nowadays with online shopping and home delivery by couriers. High speed internet is more expensive but not unaffordable. Having a city with an international airport 45 minutes away and a full service (grocery, pool, rink, gas, hospital, police, school, etc) small town 5 minutes away is perfect. I’ve lived further away from such services and it makes rural-ish living more of a hassle.
Yep. We’ll be snowbirds. Country living summers here and flying away to rent in warm winter locations. With carbon taxes in Canada making fuel, electricity, food and heat more and more expensive….going away every winter makes even more sense.
Driving across Western Canada, I see countless numbers of cattle grazing the grass on countless acres of land. People, and most animals, cannot eat the grass, you will starve to death eating the grass unless you are a ruminant. If the grass is not grazed, it will get too long and die. The grass grows, the cattle eat the grass, we eat the cattle. A win/win/win.
The other things experts don’t know, or don’t say, is that the land in western Canada used for cattle (and other herds) generally isn’t suitable for crops. Maybe it’s too far north so the growing season is short, the land is too dry, the fertility is low or the land isn’t flat enough for machinery. The ranches would not become crop land.
The experts also never mention that ranch land is full of biodiversity (wildlife and wild plants) while cropland is basically a monoculture and the land is cleared of trees and shrubs. Dry land crops are often irrigated. Livestock uses rain water collected in reservoirs but crops also use rain water and reservoirs. Crops require herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and fertilizer. Seeding, spraying and harvesting all use fossil fuels. GMO and gene edited plants could minimize spraying… but activists, politicians and hand picked green experts fight that too.
Anyway, this is another area where #mindyourownbusiness(MYOB) needs to be applied. Experts, politicians and and activists should be told to stay out of the nation’s kitchens, and garages/vehicles, and bedrooms, and computers, and bank accounts, and grocery carts, and garbage cans, and….
The only thing worse than those pathologically disposed to controlling every aspect of otherwise peaceful fellow citizen’s lives are the mindless drones who elect them to office and the corporate (NGO, media) and state bodies (schools) tasked with furthering such totalitarianism. The politicians are merely their pimps although the “true believers” are more dangerous than the power hungry crook.
The threshold beyond which salvaging liberty is near impossible has to be the conversion of humanity to state chattel inherent in socialized heath care. This is the rationale giving totalitarian busybodies the green light to boundlessly grow the nanny / welfare state because “we” are responsible for the costs of your health care (therefore, “we” own you). But hey, it’s free!
As a kid, I hiked the rolling hills, valleys, and creeks, of the suburban SF Bay Area. Cows and horses grazed peacefully in the bucolic setting. Now? There is NO MORE cattle grazing anywhere in the Bay Area. Not only is it “too harmful to the environment” … but it is “too harmful to allow our little girls to see meat on the hoof”. Our little vegans in training would break down into a harmful depression looking at animals whom will soon be slaughtered … just for their prime parts … and the rest thrown-away. These little girls have been carefully taught that at least the meat-eating “Native Americans” ate and used ALL of the Buffalo … but we fat-assed Americans wasted most of the Buffalo … and wiped them all off the Great Plains … just for fun and sport.
I recently toured the “Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump” site. The usual “natives used every part of the animal” and the “white eyes shot them out of the train and left them to rot” promo was given, but to their credit, the organization (in a very small, hidden portion of the display), mentioned that the natives in good times only took the tongues and left the rest to rot. I lived in Regina for several years, and I have informed people that Regina started as a pile of rotting buffalo carcasses and went downhill from there; nobody opposed me.
My burps have seven grams’ worth of bacon bits
Ivor Cummins explains how the “science” backing this is BS.
https://youtu.be/50qEHPvwhVk
Of course, only Caucasoids will be expected to be satisfied to get meat only on Sunday, if at all.
The Chinese will retain the right to stuff themselves with pork at every meal.
Offspring did a semester at a Hong Kong university back in the day. Came away with the sense that – for the Chinese – pork was a vegetable, and “vegetarian” meant add veggies to pork. Got same sense from another offspring who studied in Slovakia: the vegetarian offerings were to the effect of (and I am quoting from memory): egg, egg and cheese, egg and cheese and bacon. Even th “vegetarian” lasagne would have bacon sprinkles atop the dish.
Choice quotes from Snowden at the IEA website…
“They say ‘you are what you eat’ and that must be true, because this is nuts.”
“They say they want to save the planet but it is not clear which planet are they on.”
OTOH Department
‘All the right junk in all the right places’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PCkvCPvDXk