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How Organic Food Contributes to Climate Change
This will, if true, hurt to the quick for the hand-wringing set. “Whadda we gunna do, Momma? Whadda we gunna do?”
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[...] Ok, so I don’t actually know anything about farming. Dave points us to an interesting TCS article about organic farming. Now, I realize trusting TCS is about as intelligent a [...]
I used to think organic farming was just a way to get around having outhouses in the fields for the illegal aliens. Then, after reading several very frightening news stories, I began to think that organic farming was some kind of a Darwinian process that was going to drive a whole class of people to extinction by feeding them large doses of e. coli.
Slowly, however, I began to look at the capitalists as the possible culprits behind the organic frenzy. I was a little slow in spotting the capitalist conspiracy because I had always thought “organic†was synonymous with “hippie,†and so far as I remembered, the hippies were not into money. But when I started seeing the word “organic†plastered all over food products in the chain grocery stores, I knew things had changed.
Here is my new theory: It is a well established scientific fact that the offspring of people who eat only vegetables are mentally impaired due to a lack of Vitamin B12 in their diet. These idiot children, so to speak, are now in their 20s and 30s and have become the largest group within the environmental movement. Naturally, if I may use that word in this context, they have made a correlation between the production of organic food and a healthy environment. What is healthy for them, according to their hippie mothers, must be healthy for the Earth Mother. Thus we find organic food and environmentalism bound closely together, the binding mechanism being, of course, diminished mental capacity brought on by a Vitamin B12 deficiency.
Coming up to the present, I ask you, in the impaired vegetarian-environmentalist mind, What could be more healthy than a car that eats corn? Ah. Not so fast. That was a trick question. The correct answer is, a car that eats ORGANICALLY grown corn!
Now capitalism is in the driver’s seat, if I may extend the metaphor. The government will pay corporate agriculture to rip open millions of new acres of farmland to meet the demand for corn. And, as everybody knows, this vast open wound on Mother Earth’s fair complexion will interminably ooze carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which will itself trigger more government payments to the mega-universities for research into the accelerating pace of global warming.
Eventually, just before the catastrophic environmental and economic final act plays out, a cry will go up that it is unhealthy for cars to eat regular corn, and that only organically grown corn will suffice.
I think you’re on to something.
Sorry Dave. You are pushing corporate propaganda and disinformation. This article reminds me of Regan’s claim that trees cause pollution. People wanting to inform themselves about the evils of monoculture and industrial agriculture would do well to read the book “Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization” by local Missoula author Richard Manning. Permaculture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture ) is a rational approach to feeding ourselves without burning down the environment.
herb
PS: nice to meet you at the Art Museum yesterday
Herb, I wasn’t “pushing” anything. I was making fun of people who might be conflicted by such an outcome.
I can be an asshole that way. But if you’ll notice, I didn’t take the report as particularly credible as evidenced by the use of “if true” in my introduction.
And, it was nice meeting you yesterday as well.
Let ‘em eat rice cakes. . .