Tag: food supply

Via The Defender

Despite being touted as a solution to the problem of factory farming, what the industry calls “cultured meat” is made with fetal bovine serum, which makes lab-grown meat expensive, non-vegetarian and unethical.

Many of the world’s elite — Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson — tout lab-grown meat as the way of the future, a key solution to ending the yearly slaughter of billions of factory farm animals and to address the climate crisis.

Continue reading “‘Bloody Secret:’ Lab-Grown Meat Made With Unborn Cow Blood”

With skyrocketing input costs and overwhelming regulations, farmers must become resilient. Joel Salatin says farming mega-companies will be faced with potentially crippling challenges while the smaller companies will win out. Salatin reiterates encouragement and tips for individuals and families to increase food security and self-reliance NOW!

Follow Joel at: https://www.polyfacefarms.com/

Guest Post by Simon Black

In the early 1980s, doctors and medical researchers around the world were confounded by the growing number of young, otherwise healthy patients who were dying of rare infections that typically only occurred in people with very weak immune systems.

The situation was so alarming that the CDC in the United States set up a special task force in 1982 to study the condition and stop its spread.

By 1983 the medical community had found the answer: they discovered a terrifying new retrovirus that utterly and permanently vanquished the human immune system.

Continue reading “The global food supply chain wasn’t designed for this”

Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer

Via ZeroHedge

Sanderson Farms, a large poultry manufacturer and Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, have both reported their first couple of positive cases of coronavirus.

This raises the obvious question: what happens when people critical to the world’s food supply start to fall ill?

As of now, there has been no such disruption – but it is beginning to morph into a massive threat, Bloomberg notes, with workers in close quarters preparing and processing food globally. Aside from the obvious threat of food not making it to consumers, things like fruits may also wind up rotting in fields if there aren’t enough workers to pick and cultivate them.

Al Stehly, who operates a farm-management business in California’s North San Diego County said: “If we can’t flatten the curve, then that is going to affect farmers and farm laborers — and then we have to make choices about which crops we harvest and which ones we don’t. We hope no one gets sick. But I would expect some of us are going to get the virus.”

Continue reading “Don’t Look Now But The People Responsible For The World’s Food Supply Are Starting To Get Sick”