Make America Fed Again

Timothy Birdnow

Anyone who's old enough remembers the '80's ad campaign by Wendys with the old woman who is looking at her "hamburger" "where's the beef!"

So, where IS the beef?

New USDA Report Paints Troubling Picture for America’s Cattle Industry

This Zeero Hedge article leans extensively on a USDA report which is saying tariffs and other measures to bring back beef production to the U.S. is leading to shortages at the moment, shortages that will end as we rebuild our industry.

Of course, this fails to mention the war on beef, one waged by the Biden Administration, that decimated the industry. Biden's camp told us we should eat bugs and veggies and not beef.

We know there have been multiple attacks on the cattle industry. Take the case of Cliven Bundy, the rancher whose family had grazed cattle on land owned by the government for decades. The government decided he couldn't do it anymore, and he did it, and there was a military standoff and eventually death and jail time. Bundy was the most dramatic case of it's kind but you know full well the Feds have been doing this for years now, systematically squeezing the family ranch.

There are other issues at work too. For instance, most states have property taxes. And with more people - and more money - those taxes continue to rise. Eventually ranchers can't afford to own the giants ranches they need to keep their cattle fed. Taxes take it away from them.

I would add my great grandmother wasn't a rancher but a farmer in southern Missouri and she lost her farm in just this way; taxes went up and she had to sell it piecemeal to pay them.

In fact I was just watching a marathon of Yellowstone this weekend and that is the premise of that show; the Dutton ranch was beset by investors who wanted to take the land by hook or by crook, and one of the tools to do it was building stuff to drive the taxes up and make ranching economically unviable.

At any rate the internationalists have largely succeeded:

Another point to ponder; American ranchers have been unable to sell beef in Europe and elsewher thanks in no small part to the overuse of antibiotics and radiation to sterilize the meat. So we simply stopped raising the beef and started importing more of it from places without these regulations and procedures.

We have to start raising cattle hormone and antibiotic free, or as free as possible anyway.

While it's easy to blame the ranchers for this the fact remains the FDA has a tight grip on the handling of beef, from the field to the table, and the ranchers are doing all of this primarily to provide a product that comports with the health and safety regulations imposed by the Federal Government.

I've written about how the government squeezes the dairy industry, a closely related industry. Regulations have always been at the root of the problems in cattle and dairy farming.

As has the desire to force Americans to stop chewing the fat. I wrote about it here.

We've all heard the phrase "an army moves on it's stomach" and that is true; a well-fed army will be strong - a hungry army will not. But it applies to society in general; a well-fed nation will prosper, a starving nation will be in the stone age.

which is why the first thing Japan did when it decided to break it's isolation in the 19th century and modernize was stabilize it's farming, stabilize and modernize food production. The Japanese did NOT start building industries first, or arms manufacturing plants, as so many nations that tried and failed to modernize attempted. They concentrated first on food. And it worked beautifully; now Japan is a First World nation. And it grew strong enough to threaten the United States itself. All of that was because they wwere wise enough to make sure everyone had enought good food to eat.

Food is the very heart of civilization, and in fact civilization was founded around agriculture. Everyone could be well-fed and happy, own things and be comfortable, provided the farms and ranches could be protected. The old way of wandering around hoping to find food or steal it from others faded away as the agricultural revolution gave us a superior way of life. In the final analysis all Man's proud civilization was because of a desire to fill our bellies.

And with the way the Left has tried to change our diets, tried to reduce our "footprint" so the world can become what we labored for it not to be, we were on our way to deindustrialization. Hatred of industrialization was at the root of the utopianism of the Left. Having rejected God and the hope of Heaven the Left seeks to create paradise on Earth, and to do that they must believe there WAS a paradise on Earth. They have stolen many things from Christianity; a belief in a paradise that was and a fall from grace by Man as he rejected the joys of the natural in favor of agriculture and technology, and a dream of restoring paradise by destroying the forbidden works of Man, so Mother Earth can restore some mythical balance.

But it's all lies; Nature never was beneficient. Naature is pure material, doesn't care if we live or die, and in fact order is much harder to achieve than disorder (entropy) so everything breaks down, falls apart. A food source we enjoy now simply disappears as minute changes occur. It's why civilization was created in the first place. Civilization is a war against entropy.

As Hobbes observed, Nature is sharp of claw. In a state of nature one lives a pitiable existenOce; hot in summer, cold in winter, wet when it rains. Hungry, thirsty, naked. Food is scarce and often tainted with disease. Ditto water. People die young; by their mid thirties a stone age person is pretty much geriatric. No medical care.

It was not Heaven; it was hell.

Hell is what these people seek to restore, and killing beef was their prime objective for now. If they could kill beef they could systematically kill off all meat. Bugs woud replace meat, then even the bugs would be protected.

But where does it stop? I can easily see a movement to ban eating plants too. What right have we to kill plants? Aren't plants a part of nature too?

Teh Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is ultimately where such thinking leads; Human beings should simply 86 themselves "for the good of the planet". Then an empty world can continue to spin around the sun without the molestation of Man!

And all of this starts with beef. Beef is the Original Sin to many of these moonbats.

So let us rebuild American beef, reconstruct the ranches and Make America Fed Again!

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