Guest Post by Kit Knightly
Another blatant step in the plan to control our food
Have you ever made a prediction and wished you’d recorded it?
Last week, in a phone conversation with a family member, they happened to mention growing their own vegetables, and I said in reply “Enjoy it while you can, they’re gonna start claiming it’s causing climate change soon.”
Literally four days later…
Apparently, a new study from the University of Michigan has found that “urban gardening” is 5 (or maybe 6, they’re not sure) times worse for the environment than “conventional crops”.
I don’t know how they calculated it, and it doesn’t really matter. If you read the bodies of the articles they even say it only applies to some vegetables in some places and it all depends on how the “infrastructure” is put together.
The details aren’t the point. The point is yet another weapon in the war on food. More regulation, more commercialization, less freedom, all in the name of “fighting climate change”.
And if you’re doubting that’s the agenda here, check out the sheer number of government research agencies which the “supported” the research project:
Support for the project was provided by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, French National Research Agency, U.S. National Science Foundation, Poland’s National Science Centre, and the European Union’s Horizon 202 research and innovation program.
It’s a fairly obvious case of needing a study to support a position, going out and and buying one.
This is one of those stories that exists simply to be a headline, so some pundit can quote it on some political panel on primetime TV and start a conversation about “regulation”.
Since we started with a prediction, let’s end with another one: This is just the first step, and you don’t have to be paying especially close attention to see where it goes from here.
They are never going to make growing your own vegetables illegal, they are just going to make it increasingly difficult.
It will start with licenses, for food safety purposes or something. Maybe an outbreak of a disease will be linked to people sharing food from their allotments.
Licenses will be increasingly expensive, and come with restrictions. You’ll only be allowed to use seeds from specific approved vendors, seeds of GMO plants which “mitigate the impact of climate change”. These seeds will likely be “terminator seeds”, meaning they are sterile in the second generation.
And, in that fashion, growing your own vegetables will no longer be an individual and independent experience, but just another corporate subscription service.
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You can actually find the article referred to by searching ( yahoo Carbon footprint of homegrown food five times greater than those grown conventionally ) , otherwise it is actually hard to locate. It is in the Telegram so that says a lot.
From the article:
‘Jake Hawes, a PhD candidate at Michigan and first author of the study, said: “The most significant contributor to carbon emissions on the urban agriculture sites we studied was the infrastructure used to grow the food – from raised beds to garden sheds to pathways, these constructions had a lot of carbon invested in their construction.’
So he basically is saying it is SCIENCE to take the square feet of a raised vegetable bed and set that raised bed including the material it is built of and place it in a plowed farm field and say ” Look here, this raised bed with its boards has a bigger carbon foot print than the plowed field that has no boards, give me a PhD quick,”
Did the cocksuckers subtract the carbon from the farm planting, spraying, harvesting, shipping, processing, shipping-again, purchased by consumer, driven to individual locations by thousands of cars, some only picking one item up at a store.
Yeah, I guarantee if you factor in all the inputs on commercial farms, the difference in carbon is negligible.
But the nutrition comparisons?
The home grown food will probably be hundreds of times more flavorful and nutritious than anything a commercial farm will produce.
Probably more carbon in the packaging of the processed food than the entirety of my raised bed garden,
I repurposed thirty year old salvaged wood for my raised beds. These people are literally insane.
You are missing the point H R. Think about how much CO2 was used making those boards in the first place, plus the carbon for building their initial structure, tearing down the structure, transporting them to your place for you to expend additional carbon building your garden. /s
I made mine out of concrete blocks and this is the 7th year to amortize the carbon used to make them. All tilling is done by hand so the only carbon comes from my lungs.
Stop huffing and puffing. Save the planet. Well maybe save an acre or two?
Yeah. How about those “boutique” free-range, cage-free, organic eggs being sold… in PLASTIC EGG CARTONS?…
The entire article is a LIE. They don’t want to, nor need to take anything ‘into account’ when they just blatantly lie.
Anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together can read this and KNOW it is a lie. The only people who will fall for it fell for all the other bullshit and are hopeless anyway.
Same as how grass fed beef/chickens/pork are ‘more harmful’ than CAFO raised animals. Try telling that to the people who live near a commercial hog farm.
So many pants are on fire.
If they applied that same reasoning to electric cars and windmills, there wouldn’t be any.
U of M is the most libtard school in Michigan. The most libtardiest of them all.
Not a surprise they are involved.
Their study ignores transportation costs for commercial sites, rule of thumb is it takes a pound of diesel to move a pound of lettuce. But their study does include unnecessary and unproductive local equipment like plastic sheds and raised bed lumber. Who could doubt a couple of hundred pounds of plastic shed and decorative lumber has a bigger carbon footprint than 2 gallons of gas for the rototiller.
This quote tells the tale : “For each site, the researchers calculated the climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions associated with on-farm materials and activities over the lifetime of the farm. ”
So sure, if you ignore one set of costs and multiply another a study can have any number of foolish outcomes.
I bet they are not eager to do a similar study regarding wind mills and solar arrays.
The study ignores a million things. It ignores what it set out to ignore.
It is a tale told by idiots. Full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing … except fake virtue and an intent to enslave decent, normal folk.
I don’t need anyone’s approval to feed myself.
Codex Alimentarius. Your All Benevolent World Overlords disagree.
Also, the Amish farmers that are being raided by the feds because of whole milk understand where the All Benevolent World Overlords fit in this picture.
Don’t start worshiping the Amish too much. I live near them and most perception is shaped by movies. Some of their farms are absolutely disgusting.
One in particular is a dairy farm clearly overcrowded with cows. The field is about 6 inches deep of mud and shit. There is little to no grass and they are fed hay & grain. Running through the field is a stream that could only be described as a sewer drain.
Also, who do you think runs the puppy mills?
My experience with the Amish could not be more different than what you describe.
Yeah, I’ve never seen any amish farms like that either, though I will say a muddy mess isn’t unusual on a farm and is hard to avoid in busy areas the wet times of the year.
I agree. I’ve grown up around and working on farms. This is shit and mud. No grass.
I stand by my observation and will add more. Here they are driving out the local construction businesses because they can underbid by dodging many taxes and insurances hiring ‘family’.
I had the chimney on my home repointed by an Amish crew before I knew any better. It lasted 1 year before it started leaking. I found a non-amish mason to look at it. He took pictures and showed me they had used green spray foam and painted it white to look like mortar.
Here, everyone deals with them once and rarely a second time.
Libtard much?
Remember that if you ever get Operation RanchHand-ed.
Bayer rules now on how, when and where food can be produced. (old Monsanto).
How about using those who do not want people to grow their own as fertilizer. Good for the planet and free people everywhere.
I currently have over 200 veg.garden seedlings growing indoors.
Does that make me a master criminal ?
FIB SWAT team will come knocking down your door at 0400 some morning when you least expect it.
Then they’ll probably be after me as well. I have an unheated greenhouse in Idaho that’s helped to feed us this winter.
What I’m still wondering, is what the ultimate purpose is to the USDA wanting people to register their gardens. I can think of several end games there, none of them beneficial to most people.
I like my chances in this deep red state rural backwater.
The shitbox niggerhole I left…………thats another story.
I sometimes worry that I am still too close to Memphrica. Last night, a young lady was followed home by 3 Memphricans who tried to car jack her in her driveway. She put the car in gear and sped off with them shooting at her. This was in a small town just 12 miles away and occurred less than 1/2 mile from our daughter’s house. Obviously, she was not paying attention or she would have seen her 15 mile tail.
I currently have over 200 veg.garden seedlings growing indoors.
Does that make me a master criminal ?
I don’t know but…an FBI deer, a couple of DoD rabbits, and a few seal team gerbals are on their way to seize the contraband produce and turn it into pellets.
Eat a pellet, make a pellet:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=eat+a+pellet+make+a+pellet&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DXz3exHVYDb4
Useful charges for FEMA to use under NDAA. Makes it all warm and fuzzy.
This is one of those stories that exists simply to be a headline, so some pundit can quote it on some political panel on primetime TV and start a conversation about “regulation”.
And so the concept can enter the water cooler vernacular.
The other phrase that needs to enter the water cooler vernacular is;” corporate subscription service” Nearly every product now produced is designed to become obsolete and thrown away as soon after purchase as possible–even more so with any digital product. Medicines made and sold to create dependency instead of wellness. It has become standard corporate practice because stupid consumers have made it wildly successful. It won’t change until folks relearn to buy quality or learn to do without if only junk is offered. The EV mandates are at the forefront of the current battle.
The USDA also wants Americans to register their home gardens. I always assumed this was so they could confiscate food when needed or tax, but now one more reason for enforcement.
As I stated above, I would love to know their end game. I did not, and will not, register mine. I don’t care what kind of carrot they dangle in front of me. At the moment, you just get a nifty little plaque, and get to show off pics on their garden club website.
I don’t have a home garden, I just have a lot of vegetables that grow in various areas of my property. It is amazing what heirloom seeds can produce.
The USDA sends us a several page census every year. It burns with our paper goods.
I don’t even think they try to send me one anymore.
Why should we worry about what the insane is worried about? Just laugh at the idiots and keep on living life.
In a sane world, Detroit would be plowed and planted and the natives would be growing their own food…..and know what a hoe is.
Detroit certainly knows what a hoe is and it is not the kind with a wooden handle either.
That silent ‘e’ is important.
Why hasn’t some enterprising soul repurposed those tremendous auto factories into indoor gardens? The infrastructure is already there. Raise poultry on the ground floor and hydroponic gardens above.
Here’s a video of someone doing it in NJ in an old U S Steel building.
But just how ‘real’ is that food — i.e., how genetically modified is it? How many chemicals are used in growing it? How much energy does it take to power all of those lights and the rest of the manufactured infrastructure?
I have no idea, but I like the concept of using old buildings for hydroponic farms and yes, it is quite expensive to build and maintain.
This is all Satanic horseshit. All life is carbon based, and carbon dioxide is what plants breathe. These communists can go to Hell.
+ 1000 Anon, that covers it nicely.
I’ll even help expedite their journey.
How will Gates and the rest of the Globalist scum be enriched if I grow my own food?
Centralized planning for agriculture – just like Stalin getting rid of all the individual farmers, resulting in starvation of millions (but not the ruling party members).
Actually, I think this study generated more greenhouse gasses than “urban farming” due to all the methane given off by the study’s BULLSHIT.
My half-assed prediction is that any potential crackdowns or regulations will be for sellers, not people growing just their own. Because most people are too lazy, and it’s hard to grow enough without buying, selling, or trading.
OTOH, some seed companies prioritized commercial operations and wouldn’t sell to individuals when covid first shut down.
My garden certainly produces less carbon than my earth day tire burning tradition. While the tires burn I transplant my cool season starts into the garden.
disgusting
Earth day tire burning?
Call piles of tires on fire “sustainable street lights”.
You guys want them? Come and get them. Got some troops willing to die for a few tomatoes and okra?