Kit Knightly
Off Guardian
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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”. [see Carbon Footprint of Homegrown Food Nearly Five Times Greater Than Those Grown Conventionally]
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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Via https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/24/growing-your-own-vegetables-is-bad-for-the-planet/
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Stuart, It’s just more idiotic garbage flogged by the Globalist, Climate hysteria crowd. Everything they propose is not only a lie, it’s a preposterous lie.
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It makes me wonder, papasha408, who takes anything in the mainstream media seriously any more.
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What good can possibly come out of research that pretends to defy traditional wisdom? These eggheads need to have their salaries, benefits, and research grants recycled into something that benefits usefulness.
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Unfortunately, Katherine, no one is going to pay them to do research showing the usefulness of home gardens.
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I know that, but my knowing reveals the inherent hypocrisy of their claims.
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Let’s see: UK, German, French, Poland and of course the US, in other words the “West”. Small farming accounts for 72% of the Global Food Supply and it just so happens that most of the “Big Ag” is in the west and according to the PNAC(Project for the New American Century) one of the ways the US “Empire” intends to dominate the world is through War, (Check), Destruction of countries that don’t fall in line with US policy, (Check), Biological Warfare, (Check), Population reduction on a massive scale, (Check), Regime changes(Check) and lo and behold Starvation and centralised control of the food supply(Check). Well wadayaknow.
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Good point you make about small farming, Mohandeer. I think the US has totally lost its ability to impose its will on third world countries and the current round of useless wars will prove it once and for all.
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