The Elite War on Farmers | Compact Mag

New farmers, in truth, mean new, more sustainable farming methods. The aim, according to the arch-neoliberal World Economic Forum, which is actively encouraging farmers to embrace climate-smart methods, is to make the full switch to net-zero, nature-positive food systems by 2030. In other words, organic farming.

But as studies show, organic farming is, ironically enough, not sustainable. It might work for small communities, but at a macro level, it fails miserably, both economically and environmentally. Anyone who doubts this should examine Sri Lanka, a country facing state collapse caused, in part, by a ban against traditional fertilizers and pesticides in favor of organic, climate-friendly alternatives that can t sustain large-scale farming.

In the United States, the Biden administration, in an attempt to address the existential threat of climate change and promote environmental justice, is also cracking down against traditional farming methods. Under the administration’s expansion of the Conservation Reserve Program, farmers are being paid to leave their land fallow. As the author Shea Swanson recently noted, 35,000 acres of rice fields in the northern Central Valley of California will remain completely unused this year. Similarly, EU elites are committed to creating emissions rules that one member of the European Parliament has rightly described as a bureaucratic nightmare for farmers.

What is being done to farmers from Ireland to the Netherlands, and Britain to Sri Lanka, should alarm all of us. Without farmers, we don t eat. We must stand in solidarity with those who make our food and remain wary of those who would starve us in the name of progress.

via compactmag.com

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