November 21, 2016
It's Not Madness it's Meat; the Left Wants Your Food
Timothy Birdnow
"'It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. 'It's Meat.'
'What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerberry.
'Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. 'You've over-fed him, ma'am. You've raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma'am unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs. Sowerberry, who are practical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.' "
Oliver Twist, Chapter 7
Daniel Greenfield chronicles a new plot by the Gang Green to impose food rationing to "save the planet".
From Front Page Mag:
" The average person may oppose the left, but he fails to grasp how extreme its agenda is. Every new insane policy is treated as an extreme. It's not an extreme. The extreme is inconceivable. It can only be gathered from histories of successful leftist regimes like Stalin's Soviet Union. What we think of as an extreme is just the next step on the ladder that the left is building.
Here's the next step.
A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive tax on carbon intensive foods – specifically protein rich foods like meat and dairy – could help combat climate change.
The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, is the first global analysis to estimate the impacts that levying emissions prices on food could have on greenhouse gas emissions and human health.
Much of the emissions reduction would stem from higher prices and lower consumption of animal products, as their emissions are particularly high. The researchers found that beef would have to be 40% more expensive globally to pay for the climate damage caused by its production. The price of milk and other meats would need to increase by up to 20%, and the price of vegetable oils would also increase significantly. The researchers estimate that such price increases would result in around 10% lower consumption of food items that are high in emissions. "If you’d have to pay 40% more for your steak, you might choose to have it once a week instead of twice,†said Dr Springmann.
Let them eat kale.
Under this scheme, steak would be the exclusive preserve of elites, like Oxford climate researchers, instead of the working class. It would seem that the elites in the UK and D.C. have not grasped the message of Brexit or Trump's victory. Instead of studying icebergs, they might want to contemplate what will happen when the people finally grow tired of the entire infrastructure of left-wing totalitarianism. "
End excerpt.
If I may toot my own horn I TOLD YOU SO!!!
I warned about this back in 2004 in a piece entitled "Where's the Beef" I made the following case:
"Environmentalists hated beef because it used land which the tree-huggers wanted to return to pasture or forest; anti-capitalists hated beef because it was a symbol of the triumph of wealth over poverty. The poor throughout the world traditionally couldn't afford to eat it. Advocates for the poor hated it because it takes much anywhere from 4 to 10 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef, presumably denying the poor their land for soybeans and wheatgrass. Animal rights nut-jobs hate it because, well, it's taken from animals. All of these disparate groups were gunning for that symbol of American bounty, and now they think they've found the means to permanently remove that patty from Granny Wendy's bun.
Back about the same time that Wendy's was running their `"where's the beef" ads, Leftist the world over were flocking to yet another doomsday theory, one which made the case that human industrial emissions were raising the temperature of the Earth. Since Carbon Dioxide is emitted by virtually all human activity-including breathing, the Left had a perfect tool to force their particular nightmare vision on the world. Global Warming predicts spectacular disaster resulting from Man's every action, which means that we need to have international regulations on all economic activity, on our diets, on our fertility, on our land usage and our general way of life.
Automobiles: restrict them! Factories: force "carbon trading" to restrict the developed countries (of course, exempt the socialists and developing countries like China). Don't allow poor farmers to clear fields in the Amazon Basin or the Congo. Restrict fishing while we're at it! Oh, and absolutely, positively, get rid of Beef!
There was absolutely no way anybody who has followed the Environmentalist Movement couldn't see this coming; a United Nation report now claims that cow flatulence is a major cause of Global Warming. That's right; every time you enjoy one of those juicy Hardee`s Thickburgers, you, you personally, are helping to destroy Mother Earth. Every steak you buy, every potroast you eat, is encouraging the despoilment of the air you breathe, the sinking of the seacoasts, the melting of the glaciers and the desertification of now fertile land. All this is caused by cattle and their poor etiquette."
End excerpt.
Food is the stuff of life, of course, and if the Left can control it, decide who eats and how they eat, then they will control what you do and how you think. This is an ancient technique, one practiced by Egyptian Pharoahs, by Chinese Emperors, Babylonian Kings, and other potentates with the power to restrict agriculture - usually by controlling the water supply. Sometimes refered to as an hydraulic empire or water-monopoly empire, the system generally worked in semi-arid or mountainous regions where the flow of water could be restricted. There is a reason why places like Egypt had such strong central governments; the flow of water could simply be cut off and a farmer's crops would die - and then so would the farmer. Food is the stuff of life.
The Left knows that, which is why they have taken every opportunity to put farming and food distribution under their thumbs. I have chronicled this extensively at Canada Free Press, and the offensive is ongoing. U.N. Agenda 21/30 has been ambitious in this regard as well, hoping to pen people into the cities and lasso the farmers, force them into the role of company employees rather than private producers.
To make this dream a reality, the Gang Green wants to impose a food tax.
I warned you.
Joseph Stalin did that in the Ukraine, where he simply removed all the food and starved the people to death. Why? because Ukrainian peasants, working on small farms (allowed under Lenin's New Economic Program) were outproducing the state-run coops. Stalin wanted to consolidate power and eliminate this embarassing "reactionary" private system, so he murdered the Ukrainians by starvation. Simple.
And let us not forget the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, which is a radical group of Deep Environmentalists who believe Man is a virus and must be removed from this world. Now, most environmentalists are not quite that rabid, but they all share a hatred of humanity in common, and almost all of them are Malthusians and Eugenicists, believing in radically reducing the World's population so as to just leave themselves, the pinnacle of evolution. To rid the world of teh vermin that currently inhabits it there must be pressures applied - food reduced, energy cut back, until the ratlike horde stops having babies and fades away. See, they don't want to use the approach of Stalin or Hitler because they know it is bad p.r. So they create devious little lies to justify the same program.
And, should they succeed, they will have the power of life and death over the citizenry, so that nobody would dare stop them. If you fight them you can eat rocks.
That is what this is all about, folks. Don't think anything else.
"I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected. I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish. "
Oliver Twist, Chapter 4
"'It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. 'It's Meat.'
'What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerberry.
'Meat, ma'am, meat,' replied Bumble, with stern emphasis. 'You've over-fed him, ma'am. You've raised a artificial soul and spirit in him, ma'am unbecoming a person of his condition: as the board, Mrs. Sowerberry, who are practical philosophers, will tell you. What have paupers to do with soul or spirit? It's quite enough that we let 'em have live bodies. If you had kept the boy on gruel, ma'am, this would never have happened.' "
Oliver Twist, Chapter 7
Daniel Greenfield chronicles a new plot by the Gang Green to impose food rationing to "save the planet".
From Front Page Mag:
" The average person may oppose the left, but he fails to grasp how extreme its agenda is. Every new insane policy is treated as an extreme. It's not an extreme. The extreme is inconceivable. It can only be gathered from histories of successful leftist regimes like Stalin's Soviet Union. What we think of as an extreme is just the next step on the ladder that the left is building.
Here's the next step.
A group of researchers in Oxford University, England have suggested that imposing a massive tax on carbon intensive foods – specifically protein rich foods like meat and dairy – could help combat climate change.
The study, conducted by a team of researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food at the University of Oxford and the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington DC, is the first global analysis to estimate the impacts that levying emissions prices on food could have on greenhouse gas emissions and human health.
Much of the emissions reduction would stem from higher prices and lower consumption of animal products, as their emissions are particularly high. The researchers found that beef would have to be 40% more expensive globally to pay for the climate damage caused by its production. The price of milk and other meats would need to increase by up to 20%, and the price of vegetable oils would also increase significantly. The researchers estimate that such price increases would result in around 10% lower consumption of food items that are high in emissions. "If you’d have to pay 40% more for your steak, you might choose to have it once a week instead of twice,†said Dr Springmann.
Let them eat kale.
Under this scheme, steak would be the exclusive preserve of elites, like Oxford climate researchers, instead of the working class. It would seem that the elites in the UK and D.C. have not grasped the message of Brexit or Trump's victory. Instead of studying icebergs, they might want to contemplate what will happen when the people finally grow tired of the entire infrastructure of left-wing totalitarianism. "
End excerpt.
If I may toot my own horn I TOLD YOU SO!!!
I warned about this back in 2004 in a piece entitled "Where's the Beef" I made the following case:
"Environmentalists hated beef because it used land which the tree-huggers wanted to return to pasture or forest; anti-capitalists hated beef because it was a symbol of the triumph of wealth over poverty. The poor throughout the world traditionally couldn't afford to eat it. Advocates for the poor hated it because it takes much anywhere from 4 to 10 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef, presumably denying the poor their land for soybeans and wheatgrass. Animal rights nut-jobs hate it because, well, it's taken from animals. All of these disparate groups were gunning for that symbol of American bounty, and now they think they've found the means to permanently remove that patty from Granny Wendy's bun.
Back about the same time that Wendy's was running their `"where's the beef" ads, Leftist the world over were flocking to yet another doomsday theory, one which made the case that human industrial emissions were raising the temperature of the Earth. Since Carbon Dioxide is emitted by virtually all human activity-including breathing, the Left had a perfect tool to force their particular nightmare vision on the world. Global Warming predicts spectacular disaster resulting from Man's every action, which means that we need to have international regulations on all economic activity, on our diets, on our fertility, on our land usage and our general way of life.
Automobiles: restrict them! Factories: force "carbon trading" to restrict the developed countries (of course, exempt the socialists and developing countries like China). Don't allow poor farmers to clear fields in the Amazon Basin or the Congo. Restrict fishing while we're at it! Oh, and absolutely, positively, get rid of Beef!
There was absolutely no way anybody who has followed the Environmentalist Movement couldn't see this coming; a United Nation report now claims that cow flatulence is a major cause of Global Warming. That's right; every time you enjoy one of those juicy Hardee`s Thickburgers, you, you personally, are helping to destroy Mother Earth. Every steak you buy, every potroast you eat, is encouraging the despoilment of the air you breathe, the sinking of the seacoasts, the melting of the glaciers and the desertification of now fertile land. All this is caused by cattle and their poor etiquette."
End excerpt.
Food is the stuff of life, of course, and if the Left can control it, decide who eats and how they eat, then they will control what you do and how you think. This is an ancient technique, one practiced by Egyptian Pharoahs, by Chinese Emperors, Babylonian Kings, and other potentates with the power to restrict agriculture - usually by controlling the water supply. Sometimes refered to as an hydraulic empire or water-monopoly empire, the system generally worked in semi-arid or mountainous regions where the flow of water could be restricted. There is a reason why places like Egypt had such strong central governments; the flow of water could simply be cut off and a farmer's crops would die - and then so would the farmer. Food is the stuff of life.
The Left knows that, which is why they have taken every opportunity to put farming and food distribution under their thumbs. I have chronicled this extensively at Canada Free Press, and the offensive is ongoing. U.N. Agenda 21/30 has been ambitious in this regard as well, hoping to pen people into the cities and lasso the farmers, force them into the role of company employees rather than private producers.
To make this dream a reality, the Gang Green wants to impose a food tax.
I warned you.
Joseph Stalin did that in the Ukraine, where he simply removed all the food and starved the people to death. Why? because Ukrainian peasants, working on small farms (allowed under Lenin's New Economic Program) were outproducing the state-run coops. Stalin wanted to consolidate power and eliminate this embarassing "reactionary" private system, so he murdered the Ukrainians by starvation. Simple.
And let us not forget the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, which is a radical group of Deep Environmentalists who believe Man is a virus and must be removed from this world. Now, most environmentalists are not quite that rabid, but they all share a hatred of humanity in common, and almost all of them are Malthusians and Eugenicists, believing in radically reducing the World's population so as to just leave themselves, the pinnacle of evolution. To rid the world of teh vermin that currently inhabits it there must be pressures applied - food reduced, energy cut back, until the ratlike horde stops having babies and fades away. See, they don't want to use the approach of Stalin or Hitler because they know it is bad p.r. So they create devious little lies to justify the same program.
And, should they succeed, they will have the power of life and death over the citizenry, so that nobody would dare stop them. If you fight them you can eat rocks.
That is what this is all about, folks. Don't think anything else.
"I wish some well-fed philosopher, whose meat and drink turn to gall within him; whose blood is ice, whose heart is iron; could have seen Oliver Twist clutching at the dainty viands that the dog had neglected. I wish he could have witnessed the horrible avidity with which Oliver tore the bits asunder with all the ferocity of famine. There is only one thing I should like better; and that would be to see the Philosopher making the same sort of meal himself, with the same relish. "
Oliver Twist, Chapter 4
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