Guest Post by Kit Knightly
Since the “bird flu outbreak” first hit the headlines OffG has been predicting how the inevitable agenda would unfold.
The first impact was as obvious as it was predictable – the price of chicken and eggs went up, this was just another front in the war on food.
The second planned impact was less immediate, but just as predictable if you know how to read the media, and potentially far more harmful in the longterm – clamping down on alternative chicken farming. This includes both organic farms and individuals keeping their own chickens in their garden.
It didn’t take long for the media to prove us right. In fact the Guardian has done it twice in the last ten days.
Firstly, last Thursday, the Guardian ran this article: “Spread of ‘free-range’ farming may raise risk of animal-borne pandemics – study”
Sponsored by the NGO Open Philanthropy, this piece reports that organic and free-range farming could increase the risk of a zoonotic disease outbreak, and quotes the authors of this new study:
If we can’t dramatically cut meat consumption then intensive ‘factory farming’ may be comparatively less risky
…yes. they’re actually arguing that the corporate mega-farms are better at preventing pandemics than free-range or organic farms because they have “tighter biosecurity controls” (meaning their animals never go outside or interact with nature in anyway whatsoever).
Then, in this piece from June 19th, The Guardian asked…
Bird flu is on the rise in the UK. Are chickens in the back garden to blame?
Which quotes the head of virology at the government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency (Apha):
The more humans are in contact with birds in an uncontrolled way, the greater is the theoretical risk that people can get infected,”
“Uncontrolled” is very much the key word there.
This scare campaign is not new. Three weeks ago an outbreak of salmonella in the US was blamed on people keeping their own chickens.
Back in January, when there were barely any bird flu cases to report, The Conversation was already hosting articles claiming…
Bird flu: domestic chicken keepers could be putting themselves – and others – at risk
And calling for a new policy on backyard chickens:
This is why it will be important in the future for Defra and APHA to provide specific policy for backyard chicken keeping.
It’s pretty easy to see where this is going, isn’t it?
But why take aim at ordinary people keeping a handful of chickens in their back garden?
Well, partly because they simply want to cut the amount of natural food people eat – most especially meat, but also eggs and other dairy produce. They want people entirely reliant on mega-corporations for their processed cubes of “food”.
But they also want people entirely reliant on the state for permission to do…almost everything. And in, some ways, the Covid pandemic narrative was counterproductive in that cause.
One of the unintentional effects of Covid in general and lockdown specifically was re-awakening in people an urge to go their own way. The powers-that-be are keen to reverse that trend.
As the above Guardian article points out [emphasis added]:
This may be due to the growing number of people keeping chickens or ducks, Brown said. Many of these keepers do not have to register with any authority because of the small numbers of birds involved.
During lockdown there was a spike in people keeping their own chickens.
Under UK law, it is illegal to keep a flock of fifty or more chickens without obtaining a license from the Poultry Register (yes, that’s a real thing) – but the vast majority of private flocks are much less than fifty birds, and therefore totally unregistered.
This scare-mongering on “spreading disease” is preparing the ground for “regulation” of these small private flocks.
Will that mean an outright ban? Maybe. But at the very least, I would expect the minimum number requiring a license to begin dropping from 50, and the cost of obtaining a license to rise.
We have already seen an example of this process with homeschooling.
Nations all over the world saw huge spikes in homeschooling through 2020-2021, this surge continued even after schools re-opened.
Tens of thousands more people are homeschooling in the UK than were before the lockdown started. The government response has been to re-open their years-old war on homeschooling by creating a national register of homeschooled children, and threatening parents with fines or unspecified “sanctions” for refusing to sign-up for it.
The same exact process will likely be seen with backyard poultry.
That’s the specific and practical part of it.
More poetically put, the state resents them because they are free.
Keeping a few chickens in your garden may be a small, fragile, kind of freedom…but its freedom nonetheless, and power structures are easily petty enough to destroy even that modicum of independence.
At its heart, self-reliance of any kind is the antithesis of everything driving us toward the “new normal”.
No freedom. No independence. No living outside the carefully controlled machinery of the state. That’s their aim.
As we phase out of “Covid time” and career towards “world war 3 times” or “climate change times” or whatever the next stage of the grand narrative is, the gears of the state are intent on grinding up those pockets of resistance their relentless overreach has accidentally cultivated.
The good news here is that their ever-more tyrannical efforts to control people will only end up driving more and more people away.
To quote the philosopher Lucas, the more they tighten their grip, the more people will slip through their fingers.
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Boy, just wait until my wife, Chicken Barbie, hears about this. She will make a stand for her chickens just like me when Antifa decides to spread out to the rural pop zones. She can go on and on about vent gleet and sour crop, will bring a sick or injured chicken in the house to mother hen it(couldn’t resist) and reads every article Ken puts up on Knuckledraggin’. Ain’t no chicken or duck egg shortage around here.
Of course, if it comes to registering them, well, we lost them all in a tragic canoe trip down the Trinity…
NOOOOOO… stay away from canoes… they’ll take everything from you….
Great, I have to deal with Foxes, Fisher, Coyote, and other predators getting my chickens, now liberals? Well I shoot all of the above mentioned predators, so liberals health wackos will simply be added to the list.
They are insisting on a revolutionary war.
They will be very sorry about that.
Back in the day they would shoot horse thieves because taking a man’s horse meant he was no longer able to be independent and survive on his own.
So now they want to take away our ability to be independent and survive on our own, yeah well, we’ll see how that goes.
You can almost hear their battle cry… “Regulators, mount up!” Been saying it for years. Home farmers beware, the regulators are coming.
This evil must be stopped and I suspect it will because the ability of these idiots to micromanage things down to the local, really local level is zilch. They cannot even manage themselves let alone the rest of the world.
They aren’t going to stop until people start going Bundy Ranch on their asses.
Yet it is a Federal crime to harm a migratory bird because they transmit diseases continent to continent. They shit in my livestock water troughs, on my livestock, and in my pastures. They were shown to transmit Spanish Flu back in 1918 and Swine Flu across Asia and Europe recently. TPTB NWO Elite Oligarchs are enemies of mankind and they are what needs to be eliminated to prevent the spread of deceptions, lies, diseases, tyranny, wars and death.
Coming for your chickens and everything else. They are burning down the house.
I can see it now….when they come to try to steal the chickens…..’Say hello to my little friend.’ It is doubtful that the Fed’s have the local authority to do this and they can’t even manage themselves let alone every locality in the country, therefore, I wouldn’t worry about it.
GOT CANNED CHICKEN?
Canned white meat chicken can be used in many ways, git some. Loss of chickens means loss of eggs, use the water glass method and stockpile 10 or 12 dozen. Eggs can be frozen also.
Hide out chickens on the back 40, regulators are too lazy to search for anything past your yard.
Canned chicken is disgusting. Why does it always smell like fish?
Not called ‘chicken of the sea’ for nothing.
Predators.
The crimes against humanity never cease. ALL responsible, including even the lying story writers of this bullshit, must be held accountable.
Until you shoot them, they aren’t going to stop.
Chickens are God’s gift to mankind. They eat the bugs so we don’t have to. Naturally TPTB would hate them–they want all of Creation turned upside down.
From my cold dead hand…
The chickens run wild here in Key West.
They will have to pry my chicken from my cold, greasy fingers.
Get roosters in the city. It’s a great way to get to know your neighbors.