Posted on 01/04/2016 7:07:30 AM PST by C19fan
The Studebakers plying up and down Havana’s boardwalk aren’t the best advertisement for dynamism and innovation. But if you want to see what tomorrow’s fossil-fuel-free, climate-change-resilient, high-tech farming looks like, there are few places on earth like the Republic of Cuba.
Under the Warsaw Pact, Cuba sent rum and sugar to the red side of the Iron Curtain. In exchange, it received food, oil, machinery, and as many petrochemicals as it could shake a stick at. From the Missile Crisis to the twilight of the Soviet Union, Cuba was one of the largest importers of agricultural chemicals in Latin America. But when the Iron Curtain fell, the supply lines were cut, and tractors rusted in the fields.
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_Cuba
The author states:
"it now produces the majority of its fresh fruit and vegetables—even much of its meat."
How can Cuba produce meat to provide for its citizens? Well it is pretty easy when only once every two weeks, at best, a Cuban will receive only a 1/2 lb of meat or a 1 lb of chicken.
This is laughable.
I’m sure Iowa farmers can hardly wait to hand-plant sweet potatoes...
What Cuba Can Teach Us About Food and Climate Change...
...that if you are a communist outpost located only 90 miles from the United States that you can get all the backing that you want (including food) from the larger communist countries?
...that if you measure adherence to socialist-driven ‘Climate Change’ goals by the amount of gas and coal that you don’t use (because you’re too poor to buy them), and ignore the amount of wood that you burn in their place, that you can game the numbers?
Raj Patel can get back to me when liberal boat people start making the trip from Palm Beach to Havana to escape the climate sins perpetrated here.
I am sure Iowa farmers can hardly wait to hand-plant sweet potatoes..."
With all due respect, please do not laugh. That is the future the Progressive movement wants to impose in their fossil fuel free world.
Juan of the Dead is a unique Cuban zombie movie. It makes many jokes about the “special period” and its shortages, like “yes, the dead are coming back, but it isn’t as bad as the special period, so we don’t need to eat the cats yet.”
So, when does Raj change his citizenship and pack his bags for Havana?
Hilarious pandering commie loving article. Cuba has HIGH TECH farming? What a laugh!! They use manual labor in virtually every operation— labor intensive, grossly poorly paid near slaves (actual slaves of the state farms, actually) to plant and to harvest even the simplest vegetable crops, and cannot support themselves with what they grow.
This article is a flat out scamming lie.
“Unable to afford the fertilizers and pesticides that 20th-century agriculture had taken for granted, the country faced extreme weather events and a limit to the land and water it could use to grow food.”
What a moronic and tortured sentence. And what a pathetic attempt to insert “climate change” into the discussion.
The “extreme weather” came about as a result of no chemicals!!
What was the old Soviet joke about 75 years of bad weather to explain poor harvests.
What was the old Soviet joke about 75 years of bad weather to explain poor harvests.
Y’know something about Cavemen???
Cavemen had pure rich air to breathe
Cavemen had crystal clear clean pure water
Cavemen had food grown organically
Cavemen had free range animals to hunt and eat
Cavemen were lucky to live past 30
The pathologically elitist jackasses who advocate for an allegedly classless society merely want to be one of the feet on our necks. One would think that a Patel descendant would remember something about the wonders of the caste system.
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