Category: We Need A Famine

The Sound Of Settled Science

Unsettled Science War On Meat 13 Comments

Warnings about processed meat fail the test of science;

A new re-analysis of the science concerning links between processed meat and chronic disease indicates that studies showing a relationship between the two are very low quality and suffer from, as the authors put it, “serious risk of bias and imprecision.”

This conclusion is unsurprising, as it follows a recent set of analyses that rocked the nutrition world. That earlier set of studies, published in Annals of Internal Medicine earlier this month, concluded that guidelines warning us to consume less red and processed meat are based on evidence with very low certainty. The researchers who performed those analyses asserted there is no way to determine, for any given individual, what the risks or benefits of eating meat might be.

Whiplash injuries on the rise as public attempts to follow the science.

“Automation Is The Future”, They Said

War On Meat 18 Comments

It’ll be great! they said,

Australian and North American units of the world’s largest meat works were hit over the weekend by an organised cyber attack on its information systems, Brazil’s JBS SA said in a statement.

The attack caused its Australian operations to shut down on Monday. The company said it was working to resolve the incident.

“On Sunday, May 30, JBS USA determined that it was the target of an organised cybersecurity attack, affecting some of the servers supporting its North American and Australian IT systems,” it said in a statement released Monday afternoon, U.S. time.

“Resolution of the incident will take time, which may delay certain transactions with customers and suppliers.”

The attack shut down operations across several Australian states, JBS Australia Chief Executive Officer Brent Eastwood told industry news website Beefcentral on Sunday, at which time he was not able to say how long the stoppage would last.

The world’s largest meatpacker has operations in Canada and the United States, which on Monday marked the U.S. Memorial Day public holiday.

Australian meat processing operations would be impossible without normal access to IT and internet systems, according to the Beefcentral report. JBS’s Primo Smallgoods business in Queensland state has also been affected, the report said.

More here;

Some of the immediate challenges presented since the breach was discovered on the weekend include what happens to thousands of chilled carcases from cattle slaughtered on Friday, that have yet to be boned-out.

The company has provided no further comment today, but Beef Central understands attempts will be made to bone those bodies out tomorrow using manual record keeping, documentation and sortation. At some sites, including JBS Beef City, many of those ‘stranded’ carcases are high-value Wagyu being serviced killed for other supply chains. […]

Comments in the company statement published above, suggesting that “resolution of the incident will take time,” hardly add to confidence that operations will recommence in coming days.

Having said that, the direct impact of the cyber-security breach is yet to be seen in the company’s US beef, pork and chicken operations, because of international time differences, and the fact that yesterday (Monday) was a national Memorial Day public holiday in the US. More will be learned about operational decisions and/or plant closures in the US from tomorrow.

Compounding the challenges, email and telephone communication with the company continues to be impacted by the IT breach.

h/t Ed

War On Meat

Alternative Subsidy War On Meat We Need A Famine 31 Comments

Wind turbines for your plate;

The point is the companies pushing this do not have a better mousetrap. They are not even making that claim. In fact, they make it clear that their products are not better than what they seek to replace. In their public demonstrations they concede that it is, at best, a close facsimile. Instead, they claim their products are morally superior. You see, the burger made from grass clippings and dried leaves pleases Gaia. She will therefore reward the grass eaters and punish the meat eaters.

That is insane, but these products have the backing of the oligarchs. Both of these companies are supported financially by rich people. The troubled Bill Gates is behind the Impossible Burger scheme. He is the guy trying to blot out the sun because he thinks it is part of the cow conspiracy. Other oligarchs are rushing to get in on the fake meat racket as well. All of a sudden, the rich are sure real meat will go the way of the buggy whip and be replaced by bugs and grass clippings.

Related: Al Gore Set to Cash In on Fake Meat

h/t Jeff

The Sound Of Settled Science

Unsettled Science War On Meat 52 Comments

The “food pyramid” will never be the same;

Despite a widespread belief that humans owe their evolution to the dietary flexibility in eating both meat and vegetables, researchers in Israel suggest that early humans were actually apex predators who hunted large animals for two million years before they sought vegetables to supplement their diet.
 
In a study recently published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, academics from Tel Aviv University in Israel and the University of Minho in Portugal examined modern biology to determine if stone-age humans were specialized carnivores or generalist omnivores.[…]
 
“We decided to use other methods to reconstruct the diet of Stone-Age humans: to examine the memory preserved in our own bodies, our metabolism, genetics and physical build,” Ben-Dor said.
 
“Human behaviour changes rapidly, but evolution is slow. The body remembers.”
 
They discovered 25 lines of evidence from the studied papers on human biology that seem to show that earlier Homo sapiens were apex predators at the top of the food chain.
 
For example, the academics explained that humans have a high acidity in their stomachs when compared to omnivores or even other predators, which is important for consuming animal products. […]
 
In addition to the evidence they collected by studying human biology, the researchers said archeological evidence from the Pleistocene period supports their theory.

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism War On Agriculture We Need A Famine 18 Comments

Governing agriculture by popular urban opinion – what could possibly go wrong? Meet Colorado’s Initiative 16;

A recent ballot initiative being proposed in the state of Colorado is a serious concern for farmers, veterinarians, and other animal welfarists. The initiative, originally called Protect Animals from Unnecessary Suffering and Exploitation (PAUSE), has appeared before the title board after it was filed with Colorado’s Secretary of State. After a successful title board hearing, it is now called Initiative 16 in Colorado. This means that once enough signatures have been gathered, Initiative 16 will appear on the Colorado voting ballot for the general public to determine.

It includes a definition of the “natural lifespan” of livestock: “a cow lives to 20 years, a chicken lives to 8 years, a turkey lives to 10 years, a duck lives to 6 years, a pig lives to 15 years, a sheep lives to 15 years, a rabbit lives to 6 years.”

Section 3 then goes on to incorporate this change by adding in another subsection (1.9) which reads as follows: “any person who slaughters livestock in accordance with accepted agricultural animal husbandry practices does not violate the provisions of subsection (1) of this section so long as the animal has lived one quarter of their natural lifespan based on species, breed, and type of animal and the animal is slaughtered in such a way that the animal does not needlessly suffer.” This would essentially mean that the age required for legal slaughter and harvest is greatly increased – which, in the case of cattle, would be a full five years according to the language in this proposed change.

Language expanding the definition of “sexual act with an animal” would also effectively ban artificial insemination, and other veterinary and husbandry procedures unless that person is “dispensing care to an animal in the interest of improving that animal’s health”.

How “interest” might be defined will keep veterinarians up at night.

Chad Vorthmann, executive vice president of Colorado Farm Bureau, said this initiative is, in his 20 years in Colorado, the worst initiative he’s seen filed, even in the shadow of Proposition 114 which requires Colorado officials to introduce and manage wolves.
 
“That was bad,” he said. “This is worse.

The animal rights fueled initiative still faces a process of appeals and other requirements before it can be certified for a public ballot. The original document can be downloaded here..

War On Agriculture

Climate Cult War On Agriculture Western Separatism 92 Comments

Western Canadian politicians are still deaf, dumb and blind to the fact that what came for oil and gas is coming for agriculture;

A push on the perceived urgency to deal with climate change is being promoted by John F. Kerry, special presidential envoy for climate, in an interview with “CBS This Morning,” February 19, 2021. He said “the scientists told us three years ago that we had 12 years to avert the worst consequences of the climate crisis. We are now three years gone, so we have nine years left.”
 
With climate change being the 800-pound gorilla in the room, one of the drum beats is to reduce animal agriculture’s contribution to greenhouse gases (GHG) by reducing the numbers of beef cattle. The Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit environmental conservation group founded in 1993, is an advocate for a reduction in beef consumption in our diets. The reduced beef consumption would require fewer acres of land devoted to producing food and fiber for beef cattle. However, much of the land devoted to grazing is utilizing a resource that humans cannot consume (grasses).

It’s why the eco-Marxist Trudeau Liberals seem impervious to arguments that the escalating carbon tax will destroy western Canadian grain and beef production — it’s not a bug. It’s a feature.

@ConceptualJames — One of the harder things to do with the doctrine coming from the left right now is to stop thinking of it as “insane” and start realizing it is meant to be strategic toward a terrible purpose.

I Want A New Country

Blogging War On Agriculture Western Separatism 37 Comments

… and a new computer.

My twelve year old desktop died last night, and that leaves me with a twitchy old laptop as backup. Blogging will be slow at my end until Lance can perform transplant surgery on the old box, or failing that, I have to buy a new one. Ugh. Not so good.

Until then, you’re in the capable hands of the guest bloggers and our new constitutional subordination to the “national interest”. Rage on.

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism War On Agriculture War On Meat 8 Comments

Scot Dutcher is standing in the gap between solid investigations of legitimate animal mistreatment and those that are misguided. As a former staffer at the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Animal Protection, Dutcher was involved in cases involving alleged livestock mistreatment.
 
After 15 years assisting law enforcement in various cases, he has a deep understanding of the state’s animal care statutes as well as the criminal and civil animal neglect statutes.
 
He has created AgNav Consulting to work with law enforcement agencies investigating livestock neglect, to provide training to law enforcement and key farm and ranch employees. Training topics run the gamut from recognizing and determining an animal’s body condition score to basic animal nutrition, to humane euthanasia. Providing training to law enforcement to identify which allegations are legitimate is key, and training regarding the necessary evidence in a legitimate investigation help both producers facing bogus charges and law enforcement faced with differentiating between the two.
 
On-farm assessments are a service Dutcher can provide, offering feedback to owners or managers regarding the placement of no trespassing signage, gates, and things, like sick pens, for example, that would be better located out of sight from a public road. Making simple changes to avoid being a target of extremists can be an effective first step for many operations, especially in Colorado, a state he said is second perhaps only to California in the number of active animal rights extremists and activists.
 
When hiring employees, Dutcher said a simple Google search can provide a look into any connections or interactions an individual could have to animal rights groups, especially on social media. If no data appears at all, that could also be a red flag.

h/t Carrie

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism War On Meat 23 Comments

Farmer working hard to get food on supermarket shelves during coronavirus pandemic is abused by vegans;

Gareth Wyn Jones – who runs a 2,000 acre farm with vegetables and livestock – has been compared to the Nazis and slave owners on social media.
 
The dad-of-three has been called an ‘a**e’, a ‘t**t’ and a ‘b*****d’ for his posts about farming.
 
And he explained some of his fellow farmers have even had death threats.

You can follow him on Twitter, if you’re so inclined.

Proudly powered by WordPress & Skyrocket Themes

MENU

Navigation