Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
Yesterday I spent five or six hours walking with the herd from one meadow to the next. The Border Collie worked with me like a real partner, and the cows would take a moment every now and again to come up to me for a scratch on the neck before wandering off again. The calves are all starting to graze at this point, the youngest only a week old and they move together in their own generational sub-herd, frolicking in the fresh air under the open sky.
I understand that my way of life is economically “unfeasible” as the Masters of the Universe would say, and that the “get big or get out ” mindset controls fully 90% of all agricultural operations in America today. And that’s with fewer than 750,000 farmers left to feed the other 350 million Americans, not to mention all the exports to foreign countries. But at what cost? Have we lost our souls completely?
Why is it that the anyone supporting alternative nutrition, for example, have been purged from the Internet by corporate leviathans while they turn a blind eye to what can only be described as pure evil? Every so often I have to take a break from the degradation corruption of the modern world for my own sanity and just try to live my life, but ignoring evil is its own form iniquity, so here I am once again having to stare Baal right in the eyes. I cannot stand to think what we do not see.
The next time one of you orders a Coca-Cola I want you to remember that it was only possible because of the abuse of living things and wide open borders that allow these kinds of humans in our midst.
You are what you eat.
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China says the US Ag producers will never recover their markets….OK no problem I am pretty sure that there are lots of other export markets. Sadly it used to be that a herd of 50 beef cattle could sustain a family of four on a ranch in MT. Now that number is closer to 250 head (barely breaking even on a cow-calf operation) and that assumes you already own the land or on a very attractive lease. At 500 head you might have a shot at making some money,….though most new ranchers make a small fortune by investing a large one!
Now we have oceans of Angus across MT and hay production through the roof…..lots of hay from last year still left over also. But it ain’t easy and for young people, most leave for the city. HS has a pretty interesting and unique set up with the maple syrup production, a real labor of love but quite satisfying I am sure.
The AG sector monoculture at scale is a soul-destroying enterprise, 100% sure the progress is not a positive.
Thanks. Yes, corporations and government appear to have lost their soul. Hard to keep looking at it, everywhere.
Seek out a prepper church that preaches God and pray.
Live well, be happy and share with others.
Grow fruits and veggies, go south in the winter as long as you can.
Wastefully buy pullets in the spring, give them away when leaving or it gets too cold. But good fresh eggs are worth it.
Deer, turkeys, fish are around us and available to the motivated.
Stores are still stocked, shop the sales, easy to have a year+ of supplies.
Double up on fuel tanks, propane, butane, Coleman type fuel, have a gas powered woodsplitter and a woodstove.
Have a gas, diesel powered vehicle and a bicycle or motorcycle.
A crossbow is almost silent and accurate.
Baron Thurlow once was quoted as saying,
And, some of the big AG states out west have create laws specifically to punish this type of reporting, as seen in the video. Unfortunately, this is another indicator that the problem is more widespread than this one particular farm.
My former neighbor quite the 9-5 to grow grass fed beef, he used to bring them into my hay field, during calving season, it was really cool to watch newborns calves, with their mamas. He has moved onto his on 500 acre spread, growing those Highland cows originally from Scotland.
Baby cows are the best-way better than reality tv. We had Galloways for a time. Great memories.
Belties are cool, those Scottish Highlands are somewhat of a challenge to handle being a but more ornery than most cattle.
It is not just out west. Some Eastern states have passed laws making it illegal to film in a CAFO such as Ohio.
Read this not so long ago ………. “You are what you eat ate”
I ain’t no farmer, but that sounds profound.
Proverbs 12:10… “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.”
This is beyond sickening. Coca-Cola… never again.
Hardest thing to give up, a Coke or Pepsi with pizza.
Now, cannot drink a sweetened soda.
Pizza and beer with grace.
Pepperoni and an ice cold IPA please.
Cheers ?
GCP,
You don’t think pigs are treated just as badly?
All industrial produced food, the plants and soil are equally abused, just not cute as furry mamals. We will pay for all of it.
Horrifying. We are blessed with several organic beef farmers around us, but have purchased free range beef for years, even in Oklahoma. Driving by the stockyards in the Oklahoma Panhandle several times convinced me to never buy stockyard beef again.
I have almost completely given up purchasing carbonated drinks, opting to make my own with SodaStream equipment and pure water from a deep spring well.
However, I admit to having a real liking for Pepsi, so occasionally, I will purchase a canned drink to pour over ice. However, I noticed a couple years ago that Pepsi cans appeared to have two options in the non-diet category.
One said “Real Sugar.”
That caused me to research and find out what the alternative to Real Sugar was in the other can.
Now, I really should not say anything bad about CORN due to my close proximity to some of the biggest corn producers the world has ever seen. Every one of them will defend the use of high fructose corn syrup without flinching at any evidence presented to the contrary. There is just too much money made processing all possible products which might be gleaned from GMO corn, even those once considered to be toxic waste but now approved for consumption by the FDA.
I still have an occasional “real sugar” Pepsi, but rarely. I’m not really all that comfortable with refined sugar either, especially now that I know how very much cancer cells and other pathogenic bacteria thrive on it. Not to mention that it kills GOOD gut bacteria.
Our grassfed Angus beef is packed away after happy couple of years in the pasture over the hillside. Raised by a nice farmer, his wife and three very wholesome and homeschooled children… the ones my son called “too wholesome for their own damn good.”
He’s wrong, though. He’ll find that out.
Had ONE large cup of Coke in the past year at a pizza joint. And probably none for a few years before that. Fuck Coke.
And if the above quote by HF doesn’t result in YOU boycotting Coke forever …. then you have no soul. Shame on you.
And if the above picture doesn’t result in YOU boycotting Coke forever …. then you obviously hate your good health. I hope your pancreas explodes.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR BODY WHEN YOU DRINK A COKE
First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor, allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (And there’s plenty of that at this particular moment.)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate; your blood pressure rises; as a response, your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked, preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production, stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
> 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium, and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
> 60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium, and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolytes, and water.
> 60 minutes: As the rave inside you dies down, you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, evacuated all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like hydrating your system, or building strong bones and teeth.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/297600.php
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And if the above NARRATIVE doesn’t result in YOU boycotting Coke forever …. then you’re just a fucken moran.
I’m sure you’re all aware that Coke used to have cocaine as an ingredient … hence, its name. But, do you know why they removed it? Because it was redundant.
Fuck Coke!!!
Boycott Coke!!!
Ok
ANY soft drinks with Phosphoric Acid in them (such as Coke) is extremely dangerous to consume, not counting the sugar/artificial sweetener content. Look up uses for phosphoric acid and then ask yourself if you want drink some.
I use it to patina copper… for wealthy clients whom cannot wait for it to age naturally.
“Fuck Coke!!! Boycott Coke!!!”
Now, now Stucky…let’s not jump the gun in a knee jerk reaction that we may all regret later on ….
Corporate america in general is incredibly evil. It is good, maybe, that i dont know where this farm is. There is nothing that makes my blood boil more than to see an animal mistreated. Intend on doing some research on this. How can anyone sleep at night knowing the evil in this fukked up world
HSF,
Who gets rich off of this shit? In another thread you asked why would anyone care how much $$ others have or what they do with it? Is there a connection here? If not, carry on.
If you stop purchasing the product then they can’t earn the money and it will find its way elsewhere.
I write here because most of the folks who visit have already done all the difficult thinking. This isn’t the Yahoo homepage. Concentrate on doing what you need to do to make the world a better place and it gets better one person at a time.
I appreciate your response. Ain’t gonna change.
To elicit favor with Mammon takes centralization (think corporate farms), putting people in debt, cooking the earth or throwing/using the police state against any and all possible.
Mammon has won.
You’re a quality person HSF. Figure out how to feed the world with your type of farming. Ain’t gonna happen.
I don’t think I’ll be able to make it to your summer feast. Make it an annual summer event and my wife and I will put it on our bucket list.
I buy as much local food as I can and grow my own. I buy local. Beef, pork, eggs, produce, and the produce is coming in like crazy! Life is good!
I like the one kid at a time approach. Guess what some kids are doing at Vacation Bible School down the road this summer?
Painting some rocks.
Hey HF, you ever had a downer?
I had one in a hammock under the swing set for 10 days last month.
Pumped her full of calcium, phosphorus, dextrose.. the whole deal.
She had a great appetite, loved the midnight ear scratches.
Just couldn’t get her back legs to work.
I let her down every two hours for 45 minutes of physio therapy.
C’mon Stormy,.. work those legs baby!
Broke my heart to slit her throat and dump her in a hole.
I couldn’t even feed her to the dogs she was such a nice Jersey.
What would you have done?
Off topic I know.
I cannot remember the last time i had a Coke.
I drink sour mandarin juice, sometimes with a bit of whiskey.
Those dirty fucking pricks. Cowardly, cruel and wicked. Anyone ever did that to my livestock they’d drop where they stood. That’s factory farming for you. And cookoo-cola. Have to say it again. Those dirty, fucking pricks. He who is a hard master will face his own master one day.
What happens with race horses is equally cruel. Thoroughbred Foals are fostered by a wet nurse mare whose real foal is killed or shipped off for slaughter so she can suckle the other foal. The article gives a really good insight into the ‘Sport of Kings’ and when you see it in reality it is nauseating.
We do RODEO out here, y’all.
The only way shit like this changes, imo, is with a big human die off.
Coming soon to a community near you!
Doubtfull, dont get your Hope’s up, even 100+ million in WWII didn’t even put a dent in humanities upward trajectory. We will strip this planet bare of all nature with 100 billion and soldier on to 200 billion.
As someone who has been around ranches, farms, animal husbandry, hunting and varmint control all my life, these kinds of things sicken me. Those worker are NOT stockmen, ranchers or farmers. They are corporate drones, bio-warehouse workers without any consideration that they are working with living beings. I don’t agree with a huge amount of the vegan/PETA, etc. propaganda but I sure can understand why they get worked up.
looks to me like they are degenerate junkies.
the workers in slaughter houses and huge dairy farms are generally muslim and/or mexican/latin. These are people who are generally very cruel and callous to animals. Go to Mexico and see how they treat their animals, what they do to donkeys can be unspeakable and when bullfighting is a ‘sport’ then you have a real good understanding of who you are dealing with. They have cockfights in Walmarts in Mexico.
Here in S. Texas they have the Charreria, a Mexican rodeo and the animals they use are horribly abused. I’ve seen the horses after the abuse and said abuse goes on for many, many events. The horses are scarred, lame, beyond skittish and sold for slaughter afterwards.
” horses had rope burns and torn tendons and were severely emaciated.”
https://www.gdltours.com/charreria.html
Well I just lost my appetite. I’ve drank that FairLife milk before. That’s not gunna happen again.
Not a big milk drinker but I do love cheese. Assuming the good shit I buy from the creameries in Wisconsin are better. I already don’t drink the sugar water but Coke does have their fingers into just about everything so do your research if you want t completely boycott the fuckers.
Both of my folks grew up on farms and I’ve been around plenty of agriculture. Used to spend summers on what I refer to Old MacDonald’s farm because it was a small family farm with dairy, hogs and chicken. I can assure you if we were caught beating a calf Farmer Roy would’ve taken us to the shed for a whipping.
I bet a lot of those workers are probably illegals too. You know what they say about psychos that abuse animals – it’s only time before they do the same to a person. Remember the illegal that murdered the college girl in Iowa last year? Yeah…I don’t want to hang around a bunch of savages like in that film.
+10000000000
Pick an evil dictator/leader/cocksucker from anywhere on our globe …. and then think of the main reason they stay in power. What is it? It’s the dictator’s military, police, thugs, whatever …. a group of people, psycopaths with no empathy or conscience or even a hint of morality …. murdering, torturing, terrorizing, beating the fuck out of other humans ….. just for a paycheck or, even no reason at all.
Coming to America at some point. Guaranteed.
“Stucky, you fucken moran! We have the Constitution! And other pieces of paper!!”. Hahahahaha. The Demoncrats could start recruiting ‘Soldiers For The Preservation Of America’ to bash in the heads of anyone who disagrees with them ….. and they WOULD be able to field an army of 100,000 Head Bashers in about a month. That’s a fact, Jack … don’t kid yourselves.
And you thought I was bad for slaughtering bunnies the old fashioned way… I told you my bunnies have a happy life right up to the last three or four seconds.
I was out riding a bit today… am feeling a tadbit country.
And this is hilarious, but we have had this feral/stray cat sneaking into our chicken house and stealing eggs? Well, I told Grooch I saw it between the house and the barn and he went into the safe room and came out with the AK…. seriously, my man is HOT.
Imagine 8 billion people hungry 3 times a day. Makes sense to feed them crap they would not recognize as bad. Remember, as long as it tastes good?… Bad food intake will catch up to anyone.
Thought
That is 7 billion and the food is bad because they have poisoned the food. It does not have to be that way, they want us gone.
They want us profitable. Mammon.
World Population Clock: 7.7 Billion People (2019) – Worldometers
You Are What You Eat
My point EXACTLY!
JFC, I almost fucking cried. Those Mother Fuckers are indeed headed to hell. I don’t think I can eat dinner now, even though it’s locally raised organic grass fed cow. I am in the 99th percentile as to what goes down in CAFOs, but this was beyond the pale, and I only made it to the one minute mark. The person who made this video will probably be put into prison, as it has been made illegal to tape these crimes. Now I am in bad mood, thanks HSF. (Not blaming you).
This story makes me think of Temple Grandin. The movie and her autistic charming ways depicted in the movie were an inspiring story of cows and ways to ease their transition from an animal worthy of decent treatment to a piece of meat for market.
I have no experience in dairy farming or cattle ranching beyond going to a Maine farm with milking cows when I was 7 years old. Do you have an opinion on the Temple Grandin story?
I recall a science paper from the 70’s (designed by Coke) to prove drinking coke did not cause dental decay in institutionalized children. It was totally flawed in design but published in the dental press as an endorsement for Coke products.
Yes.
If any of us looked at our daily intake of questionable substances we might stop and check. Then what!
Temple not only revolutionized animal slaughter making it more humane, she also brought the ‘squeeze chute’ into the forefront for large animal treatment. She discovered that instead of running cattle up a straight line to the slaughter house, a circular path that wound around into the slaughter arena would keep the animals calm. She’s a high functioning autistic. she’s written several books and is a remarkable woman.
i’ve seen cattle killed in pasture, they were eating and then shot, they never knew what hit them.
And just think; as horrible and cruel as this is, people are doing the same and much worse, to other human beings. Even to infants and innocents who have no way to resist or fight back. It’s a sick, sick world. That’s why the cure will be applied soon.
F-me! More people need to see things like that. Grocery store meat on a Styrofoam platter wrapped in plastic loses any attachment that it was once an animal to the buyer.
I’ve quit smoking, gave up drugs, & rarely drink. My morning Coke is as precious to me as coffee is to those who drink it. Now, my conscience and I will wrestle with giving up my 1-a-day Coke.
Evil Bastards!
Food,Inc., a documentary made ~10 years ago, opened my eyes; part of its focus was MonSatan & Smithfield.
Asinine stuff. There is no reason for this. One day these people will be held accountable.
Multi-millionaire corporate agriculture bullshit artist dissembles like a $2 whore*.
*comments are disabled for this video.
Conservatives get their YouTube channel pulled and this monster is still posting like a champ.