And a preview of coming attractions: Here is a map of the Netherland’s nitrogen reduction strategy or as it works in reality, this is Joe Netherlands starves to death. This is why the farmers are protesting. The gov’t is completely unhinged.
Related: As small farming and ranching operations struggle to bounce back from the COVID-19 pandemic and supply-chain disruptions, the federal government is preparing to throw another hurdle their way.
We will fight Putin until the LAST starving infant!
Crickets are the new poutine!
Ah, but will they be covered with gravy and cheese?
And here I thought I’d eat ANYTHING covered in gravy. WRONG!!!!!
They’ll replace the farmland with solar panels
“We don’t need farmers, we get all OUR food at the supermarket!”
Nitrogen reduction???? WTF?
Nitrogen is around 80% of the atmosphere, whatever these imbeciles are smoking, keep it away from me.
It isn’t even generated by our planet.
It’s a captured byproduct of Sun’s Exhaust Gases.
The colder it is, the more condensed it becomes.
It’s not flammable as it expands and contracts.
Vibrating like crazy trying to condense back to a rested state of minus 400 Celsius.
Gives us our water vapor that defies our definition of gravity.
Water vapor has weight but centrifugal force from planets rotation exerting it off our surface.
Wow. You actually just typed that. Never go Full Retard.
He’s right. Google is your friend.
Take your own advice, moron.
Really? This, from you UnMe?
Try harder, troll.
Yes! A basic understanding of chemistry and contempt for those who don’t have it! Right from me. Believe it.
unme.
You are the last person to tell anyone about FULL-retard.
Great…more greenhouse gaslighting.
Basically, activists and governments are just going through the Periodic Table picking out elements and chemical compounds to regulate in order to prevent energy, industrial and agricultural production. At some point, people who oppose poverty and starvation might feel forced to choose another element from the Periodic Table, Pb, to protect themselves from increasingly disastrous policies and government authoritarianism.
Liberals think the magic food unicorn delivers our food in magic trucks to grocery stores at night. We are being governed by poisoned liberals who want to turn the planet into Sri Lanka
Western civilization is at war with its “Liberal/Communist/Totalitarian/Fascist” Governments.
This is not a drill.
Fight back in whatever way possible while possible.
Dystopian hell awaits.
Who is John Galt ?
It’s time for farmers everywhere to starve the cities. Energy companies should also shut off energy supplies to cities. The “brains” in cities want that so give it to them.
Making people suffer is sadistic.
Making the non-humans in charge of the imposed suffering, suffer, is justice and an all around good sport.
“The gov’t is completely unhinged.”
I believe the huge upshift in insanity we have witnessed these past many months is because the elitist crowd senses they are losing their grip on control and they are trying to inflict as much damage as possible while they still can.
As many here have stated before… this is a feature, not a bug.
Unfortunately there aren’t enough hard asses in TinyTown to make a change. As I’ve said…politicians will hunker down till the Dutch fall in line.
I hope I’m wrong. The video of Euro trash partying up in a bar while farmers block the highways makes my blood boil and only amplifies what I’ve known for some time that they truly are the enemy of the people.
I am ambivalent on this one. There’s something to be said for reducing the damage from fertilizer runoff, it’s really bad for bodies of water, but this plan looks difficult and perhaps unworkable. Here’s a simpler plan to try first: end all agricultural subsidies. Without exception. Also, be quick to pass cloned lab-grown meats through the regulatory hoops so we don’t need to raise cows at all.
In any event, farmers have no right to block traffic and otherwise menace normal people. Cracking down on them now will be good practice for clubbing the reaction to the aforementioned termination of subsidies.
Farmers also have no responsibility to feed you. Good luck when they decide not to.
Finding replacement farmers is trivial, the world has tons of food. Creating technological replacements for modern farming is underway.
What a dolt! Farmers can’t find hired hands because no-one wants to work hard anymore. Lack of labour and skyrocketing inputs have forced massive automation on farms for decades, prior to that farm automation always increased and allowed people to move off the farm to more ”gentile” city jobs.
Now a few dolts on the left claim unicorns will farm the fields, presumably in the form of AI driven tractors and what not but we all know we are nearing the maximum for possible automation in the field. The reduction in labour demands for direct farm work has more or less stopped and the labour demand for machinery repair has gone up. Except of course, there aren’t enough qualified people to do all the repairs on this now highly technical equipment (following John Deere’s fix it strategy) leaves your tractor down for a couple of days right when you need it the most. Nice crop you had there, shame if something happened to it.
BTW – you know full well automation isn’t the plan anyways. They figure they can get everyone out working the fields like peasant farmers of old. Except of course, no-one has ever seen a leftie work so I can’t imagine them even making it out to the fields in their electric dildo bike let along doing any work once they got there as there is likely no wifi.
The dolts on the left aren’t the ones making it hard for Mexicans to come up North and work the fields.
speaking of replacement.
I’m sure you got ALL your CV shots and boosters.
Damn right!
“Finding replacement farmers is trivial,”
Huh. Just “replace” them, eh? That’s quite a statement even for you, UnBrain. I think you accidentally said the quiet part out loud.
Farmers don’t do what you want, you just take the land, put new guys on it and crack the whip? You could call it a collective farm. You could have a new centrally organized plan for production every five years, right?
I’m sure it would work better than when the Soviets (and Chicoms, and Vietcong, and Khmer Rouge) tried it and they all starved.
What’s your plan for the farmers you “replaced?” Wood chipper and manure spreader? Send them “back to the land” so to speak?
You really beat that strawman down.
What I meant was, if our farmers don’t want to farm, then just import the food. Easy peasy.
“What’s your plan for the farmers you “replaced?””
Their life, their plan. They can drive for Uber perhaps.
This is not a nitpick, UnBrain. I see this a lot from you and your bros. You say “Finding replacement farmers is trivial,” in response to the suggestion that farmers might just stop farming as a protest. Despite this being a (supposedly) free country where property owners (supposedly) have rights. So clearly you think it would be just fine to remove those protesters and put serfs on that land.
But then we get “What I meant was…” Nuh uh. You said what you meant. Because even you, UnBrain, know that replacing domestic food production with imports is a ridiculous notion. (See Sri Lanka for elucidation.)
Going to use them protesters as feed-stock in your cloned-meat plant? Real efficient. Shame to waste all that free biomass, right?
Sri Lanka is neither here nor there. I propose nothing like their stupid plan, nor am I proposing serfs as badly as you want me to be.
“Technological replacements for modern farming is underway”…..been watching Soylent Green again, have you? Now piss off and eat your bugs.
“cloned lab-grown meats” What could possibly go wrong? /sarc
Solyent Green is people!
Although ground leg of UnMe would probably kill you.
Hey alla unDORK, how is that vertical farming going these daz??????
UnMe…
You remind me of Mr. Bean.
You get that Bee yet?
I saw your last show and it was still on the run…
So many lies and broken promises. Remember Green energy?
Technology ain’t gonna save you when you are confronted with starving mobs who have nothing to lose.
Crackdowns will only get you so far when people have nothing to lose but their chains.
Nicolae Ceausescu found that out the hard way.
“…be quick to pass cloned lab-grown meats through the regulatory hoops…”
Can you imagine what the runoff from a cloned-meat factory would look like? Can you say tri-sodium phosphate, UnMe? They gotta clean and -sterilize- all those tubes and vats. After every batch. Like a dairy, but so much worse.
Could there be anything more unnatural and un-ecological than a cloned-meat factory? Maybe a nuclear power plant, which you would need to provide all the electricity for the pumps to push meat-goo through the megamiles of pipes.
I’ll take my cow on the hoof, thanks. Pee and poo are much less troublesome than high concentration TSP, exotic antibiotics and who knows what kind of obscene byproducts from an operation like that.
Then there is the issue of scale, another place Lefties ALWAYS seem to break down. You propose to replace meat animals with factories. Go find out how many frigging cows there are in Europe, and then add up the square footage of vats you’ll need to replace that protein. You will find it is a very large number. Possibly larger than Holland, but maybe only as much as every existing commercial building in Europe.
You can do the same calculation with cars, gasoline and windmills, but the capacity of Leftists to ignore physics is large. Maybe after you walk in the snow for a while and miss a few meals over this stuff the numbers will make more sense.
There is no possible way the meat plants will take up greater acreage or have anything but a dramatically reduced ecological footprint compared to cow grazing. Re antibiotics: don’t they already inject those into the cows?
While I am sure cleaning and sterilization will be intensive, it’s hardly a massive leap from what bioreactors are already doing. Brave Robot is already distributing lab-grown dairy product, I am sure they sterilize their equipment and I am sure it’s large-scale stuff. And we’re only getting larger in scale.
“There is no possible way the meat plants…”
Do you know what the conversion efficiency of cloned meat processing is? Energy/feedstock in vs. finished product out? Do you know what the square-footage per pound ratio is? Or what the sewerage runoff from a common dairy operation is, much less a fake meat operation?
Do you even know how many cows there are in Europe?
No. You don’t. You have no frigging idea. None of you dorks -ever- know the size of the problem you’re trying to solve with some cute boutique technology that barely works in a lab and doesn’t scale worth a damn. That’s why I can see windmills out my window, because Leftists won’t do simple long-division. Ontario Hydro could save nine BILLION dollars just by unplugging those asinine things.
There are 75 million beef cattle and 150 million pigs in Europe. Oh, and almost 9 billion chickens. That’s a lot of fake meat to produce.
Handwaving. There is already lab grown chicken meat being served in Singapore. I am pretty sure they’ve worked on this good and hard and are ahead of either of us.
Short of mass starvation and destruction of farmlands … there are other ways to control fertilizer runoff. Such as collection and natural tertiary treatment. Here in CA we have clean water ‘C.3’ requirements that ALL hard surface runoff be collected and dispersed onsite back into the ground for natural bio filtration through the soil. Runoff cannot be collected and sent into storm drains, which flow into creeks and rivers. It must be dispersed onsite. No buildings have been BANNED … like these idiots are BANNING huge chunks of NED farming.
It is entirely possible to be environmentally conscious … without completely destroying industries.
Undork
The Next time you start shooting yer yap off about “no right to block traffic” , I’ll expect to see yer face – in person hauling extinction Rebellion ASSHOLES off the road..Hmmm..??
Put yer money where yer pie hole is sonny…or STFU
Yes, why raise ruminants that can eat all the human-inedible parts of food crops? Why raise food animals that can thrive on nonarable land? Foolishness! Eat the bugs!
Well speaking of ze bugs, we do have a newly built plant in Ontariowe that breeds crickets for pet and human food consumption.
It hasn’t burned to the ground, yet.
Malnutrition in the third world.
Starving children.
“Ottawa wants emissions from fertilizer reduced by 30 percent by 2030.
Petition e-3940 calls on the government to work with farmers and others “to ensure any plan to reduce agricultural emissions does not restrict or financially discourage the amount of fertilizer that Canadian farmers use and does not limit Canada’s ability to maximize food production.”
Mazier said his research showed the government is looking at limiting how much fertilizer producers can buy.
“It’s an actual thing, which is very, very concerning,” he said.
Limiting food production, particularly considering the war in Ukraine, is not something Canada should contemplate, he said.
“First of all, the target is kind of alarming and you’re going to limit the amount of food producers can grow,” said Mazier. “Fertilizer has basically changed the way we produce food in the world. We should be looking at ways that we can grow our production and putting a limit on farmers I don’t think is a very good way of looking at things.””
https://www.producer.com/news/fertilizer-petition-launched/
Farmers don’t vote Liberal, Stan. Liberals reward their friends and punish their enemies.
That’s the whole thing right there. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.
Thought of the day – friends turn into enemies when they get hungry.
Friends turn into food when we get really hungry .
After we’ve eaten all our enemies.
Governing parties of all stripes throw other peoples’ money at farmers galore.
Impose your own Galt Tax.
Useless people pay extra.
Well that’s so nice of the Netherlands! They’re working hard to provide opportunity for poor Chinese farmers to increase food sales into the Netherlands!
Kudos to the netherlands for sacrificing their food security to provide options for such a worthy cause!
Farming is so 20th century! There’ll be a downloadable smartphone app that’ll provide food for us.
It’s becoming obvious that we will all soon be eating Soylent Green. And loving it. And will be ignorant of its source.
Alright … now I am 100% convinced that our “liberal” leaders are desperately trying to engineer the fruition of Paul Ehrlich’s every prediction. Mass starvation, and food wars are coming. Your “liberal” leaders are MAKING it come true.
All hail Paul Ehrlich! He was right after all … right?
Someone should tell Trudeau that tractors don’t have horns.
They do, but he doesn’t need to know that.
I have been in agriculture my whole life. We have occasionally taken a peek at other practices in the UK and in Southern California, as well as lots of stuff around home obviously. I also read a little bit of history has it relates to agriculture. My conclusion is that the best thing for the land, and for the general ecology and society, is that the ones that work the land own the land as much as possible and be free from from far-from-home regulation as much as possible. And, as an aside, anyone who thinks any kind of factory anywhere by its processes improves the quality of food is arrogant, uninformed, evil, or all three.
“as an aside, anyone who thinks any kind of factory anywhere by its processes improves the quality of food is arrogant, uninformed, evil, or all three.’
No, luddite, it is you that is ignorant. Feel free to move back to the Middle Ages.
In general it makes sense to eat unprocessed food – as fresh as possible. As food is more heavily processed it loses its nutritional value. So they add the nutrition back in after the fact. Yummm!
When the English came to Canada in the 1600s they lost their teeth and sometimes their mind. Lack of fresh food. All their meat was processed. Salted lamb and dried beans. Even the Indians felt sorry for them. I look forward to the highly processed diet of the modern man (let him eat that stuff). Meanwhile the Middle Ages is where I will be – with an outdoor BBQ and a big garden.
Hey unDORK
Have you ever worked on a farm, or even been on one when there are people working the land. You show a level of ignorance that is very common with city foke. You have NO fu*king clue as to what you advocate, and people like you will be dropping dead from starvation, as these fake food factories will not be able to keep up to the population requirements for food. Or you’ll get shot, standing in the way of those who will fix the bullshit!
In the land of tulip chokers, a conservative is farther to the left than communists, I know, as my cousins over there are a bunch of lefties, who think they are conservative.
Get back to me (link at rangemagazine dot com)
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