Sigh...
Here we go again with the WEF and this crap...
People take agriculture for granted because it is one of mankind's oldest technologies. It remains perhaps one of the most complex. Hunter gatherers began investigating what could be eaten more than 100,000 years ago, an arduous process involving trial and error made more difficult by the fact some foods, like acorns and cassava, have to be soaked or otherwise processed to be edible. This vital knowledge was passed on to posterity in lore. Eventually the list of the more basic foodstuffs became common knowledge, though among the ancients, knowledge of pharmacological plants often stayed secret.
Eventually everyone knew what food was and that knowledge remained stable for centuries. Now the World Economic Forum has a plan to change that. It will revise the list of what humanity eats wholesale to defeat Climate Change. "Our global food system is in urgent need of transition. At present, one-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production." The great work of agriculture will be revamped and the transition will involve all aspects of food production and consumption:
Full article HERE from the Pipeline.org
Do they not remember the European farmers protests? HERE is that link...
I know we joke about kids thinking all their food comes from the grocery store without any 'production' costs or anything else, but damn...
Farmers, ranchers, and grove owners work their asses off, spend a butt ton of $$$ to plant, harvest, and hopefully make enough profit to pay off this year's debts before they buy what they need for next year, plus pay for maintenance on their equipment. And that assumes they have a successful harvest. What happens when they don't? They go deeper in debt, praying next year will be better. If not... well, they're done. They have to sell the land, hope to pay off their debts, and usually are living at a poverty level for the rest of their lives.
And where are these 'companies' that are going to revolutionize food production? How successful are their 'test' plans? Has anyone actually DONE large scale production?
We know how the 'plant based' meats are doing (e.g. not well)...
And how many current businesses, farms, ranches, etc. will be put out of business along with how many subsidiary jobs? How many towns will be decimated when those plants close? Where will those people find 'new' jobs?
Who is going to buy up all those farms, ranches, etc? Who will have the money to pay for them? Bueller, Bueller???
I am really getting tired of these ivory tower types who've never gotten their shoes, much less their pants dirty, or ever had blisters from actually doing WORK on a farm, ranch, or anywhere else, but 'they' know better than we do what is 'best' for us...
Well, I've got your 'best' right here... come and get it... I'll be in the back yard doing a brisket for the weekend...
h/t SteveS
Depending on where you are, e.g. metro area, groceries are HOURS from empty... And yes, backup food in some form IS a great idea!
As pundit Thomas Wictor is fond of saying, "Nobody knows how anything works." This is another prime example of that. It's not new. People enmeshed in "civilization" are utterly ignorant of how the world, at a basic level, works, and this phenomenon is not new. My first husband remembered his little brother not wanting to eat eggs that came from the neighbor's chickens, only wanting eggs from the store. He dated a girl in the 70s who didn't want the artichokes from the roadside stand (Watsonville, CA, home of artichokes) because they had points on the "petals". She liked the ones in the store that weren't spiky. I could go on: milk, beef, chicken... I believe the grocery stores are about 2 days from empty shelves any more, very reliant on weekly (sometimes multiple x/week) deliveries...which shows you how dependent we are on trucking. Apparently the k0vud shortages, when everything shut down, are utterly forgotten. I'll just keep filling my freezer with venison, thanks.