Bill C-293 is arguably the most concerning legislation I've seen in 25 years. Under the guise of pandemic preparedness, it grants the government excessive power to potentially reduce meat consumption in favour of promoting plant-based diets.
My chat with @SenatorWallin. ⬇️ https://t.co/CygnAQfw5D
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) September 29, 2024
We Need A Famine
Blacklock’s- Gov’t Polls On Meatless Diets
In-house Privy Council researchers have polled Canadians’ willingness to adopt a vegetarian diet for the sake of climate change. Only seven percent of people surveyed identified themselves as vegetarian or vegan.
A United Nations report Healthy Diets For A Healthier Planet blames livestock, poultry and seafood production for emitting greenhouse gases. “Red meat, dairy and farmed shrimp are generally associated with the highest greenhouse gas emissions,” said Healthier Planet. “This is because meat production often requires extensive grasslands which is often created by cutting down trees.”
War On Agriculture
Research out of Tufts University three years ago created the Food Compass—a new guide to what is healthy that rivals the Food Pyramid for sheer lunacy. Advising us that Froot Loops and Pringles are healthier choices than meat and eggs, the authors of that research are now promoting ESG + Nutrition, in which their Food Compass informs governments and private enterprise on how to get the population of the world to follow along.
He Admires Their Basic Dictatorship
All to protect an EV sector that was dead on arrival.
Ford Land Grab
The Canadian Independent- WATCH: Ontario farmers and concerned citizens protested at the township council building this evening over Waterloo Region’s attempt to acquire 770 acres of precious farmland for reasons that remain unclear.
h/t Scott
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Bill’s Butter
It’s smooth, it’s creamy, it fills your heart with love. Who can’t wait for a big mouthful of Bill’s butter?
New York Post- Bill Gates wants you to eat ‘butter’ made from air to fight climate change
John Queere
What you’re about to see may be the single craziest training video that I’ve ever seen.
A @JohnDeere source sent me this video where employees are trained on what to do if they overhear employees saying that they’re uncomfortable with trans identifying men in women’s restrooms.
Next On Justin’s Climate Agenda
I refuse to pay a tax when my cattle fart. So don’t even think about it Justin. Denmark taxes cow farts.
Ve Ave Vays
Globe and Mail- Landmark EU nature restoration plan gets green light despite months of protests by farmers
Under the new law, EU countries will be required to restore at least 30% of habitats such as forests, rivers, grasslands, wetlands, lakes and coral beds deemed in poor condition by 2030. This percentage is set to increase to 60% by 2040 and 90% by 2050. The law also introduces specific requirements for measures to reverse the decline of pollinators.
Coming Soon?
World Economic Forum- Feeding the future: why Renovation and Reinvention are key to saving our food system
Our global food system is in urgent need of transition. At present, one-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production. At the same time, the global population is projected to reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050, which could increase the demand for food by 60%. Many of the ways we grow, manufacture and consume food are causing a dual crisis of human and environmental health, and the complexity will only intensify.
h/t Jim
There Is No Depopulation Agenda
Also.
We Need A Famine
And by golly, a famine is what we’re going to get.
WHO Director-General calls for a “transformation” of the food system, away from meat-eating and traditional agriculture, in the name of fighting “climate change”:
“Our food systems are harming the health of people and planet. Food systems contribute to over 30% of greenhouse gas emissions, and account for almost one third of the global burden of disease.”
“Transforming food systems is therefore essential, by shifting towards healthier, diversified and more plant based diets.”
“The warning from the OPP had come over the farmer’s phones the night before.”
Anyone with a farm tractor, transport or other vehicle going slow on the highway on April 1, to protest the carbon tax hike that day, would be charged under the Highway Traffic Act for endangering people.
There was a shrug from the dairy and cash crop farmers, transport drivers and other drivers, including a Scot with a French accent wearing a tin foil hat, all congregated in Herb’s Truck Stop parking lot.
They had seen this movie before, where threats were made.
We Need A Famine
Patience. They’re working on it.
Whatsisname’s Britain
Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch… or not.
FARMING in England is facing a crisis as thousands of farmers have accepted government payments of up to £100,000 to leave their land. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) say that their ‘Lump Sum Exit Scheme’, launched in 2022 by Boris Johnson, aims to ‘support farmers in England who wish to leave the industry’.
It has been successful. Last month Defra told me they had received ‘just over 2,200 eligible applications’. Approved farmers who want to throw in the towel have until May 31 of this year to transfer their land, but there is no rule that says it must remain as farmland.
Contrary to a previous statement, Defra said: ‘The scheme itself doesn’t have any specific restrictions – however, we expect that most of the surrendered land will stay as agricultural land.’ Earlier they had said: ‘In return for signing up to the scheme, farmers need to either rent out or sell their land or surrender their tenancy in order to create opportunities for new entrants and farmers wishing to expand their businesses.’[…]
It comes from the Absolute Zero report produced by six of our universities, Cambridge, Oxford, Bath, Nottingham, Strathclyde and Imperial College, and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a government agency. The research programme goes under the name UK FIRES with the convoluted slogan Locating Resource Efficiency [RE] at the heart of the UK’s Future Industrial Strategy [FIS].
They suggest drastic measures. By 2029 (five years from now), they aim to reduce beef and lamb consumption by 50 per cent. By 2030, they recommend that fertilisers are phased out, by 2050 all beef and lamb production should end and energy used to cook and transport food should be reduced by 60 per cent.
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When You Piss Off People Who Work With Heavy Equipment
Telegraph- Farming is in peril throughout Europe
Telegraph- French farmer vows to ‘starve Paris’
A tractor blockade established at eight points around Paris is intended to “starve Parisians”, a French farmer has claimed.
Benoit Durand, a grain farmer, told French broadcaster BFM TV: “We are holding a siege in Chartres, one hour away from Paris. It’s part of the blockade… the goal is to put pressure on the government.”
Good Morning France
Click on link for video.
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h/t OJ