Posted on 05/19/2018 8:34:23 AM PDT by rktman
It’s what happened in the Soviet Union, Stalin basically demanded all food grown to be given to the cities, and therefore millions in Ukraine starved to death.
Yes, food does come in cans from stores! My wife refuses to eat from my garden, she is starting to use my tomatoes and peppers. A food Red Pill start!
The government has tried that very thing many times and it has rarely worked.
Farming is just a lot harder than people understand. There is the economics, the mechanics, The chemistry, the meteorology, climate knowledge, soil types, entomology, agronomy, the sheer hard physical work and most of all Mother Nature.
We.ve done it for 45 years. We’ve watched the county farmer numbers drop from 400+ to 40-. About half retired the other half went broke and those were the ones who were farming when we started and doesn’t count the scores who have come and gone since then.
Growing a garden is so different from farming, most gardens don’t have the plant population of one row on a farm. As an example, I can bake a great apple pie but I’m no Sara Lee. I can’t supply them for 1000s of people and the business skills and access to financing that kind of business demands are beyond me.
It’s amazing how much food can be grown in a 30x40’ plot!
There is the story of someone who found out about a slaughterhouse. Cows would be led in, stunned, killed, and butchered so that people could eat them. Some gentle soul was horrified that anyone would do such a thing -- "Why don't you just go to the supermarket and buy your meat there, like everyone else??" they said.
An enlightening and eye opening experience especially for kids. My grandchildren can’t wait to pick berries, apples, peaches, plums, grape tomatoes from the garden. Like hunting and fishing this too connects us to the symbiotic relationship God gave us in this world.
Why grow food when you can put crops in your gas tank as the government subsidizes and mandates?
Think they’ll pick up the tab if your engine craps out due to mandated fuels? Nope.
Oddly enough, in this one circumstance, I can imagine Republicans *creating* a federal program. Well, block grants, actually, so not *too* repulsive.
The block grants would be so that the states could revitalize rural America. That is, while there are farms, there are also many small towns that *support* the farms. And the left has been trying to wipe out all these small towns worse than The Tall Man in the Phantasm movie series.
And while the farms seem independent, but rely on the towns for many things, the towns themselves also might seem independent, but are “networked” with each other before that word was invented, for mutual support.
So what would these block grants hopefully accomplish? To give these towns sustenance and purpose, several means of providing for themselves, and to be places that encourage large families. Of course, the “allure” of the big cities will still be there as a drain on their young adults, but leaving your home should not be as easy a choice, because in your town you also have options for success.
Such an effort would deeply irritate the left that seek ever growing depopulated federal lands, and eventually UN control over those lands. It would actually reverse many decades of decay in the heartland.
Its also my experience that the more disconnected people are from where food comes from and or the outdoors, the more disconnected they are from reality in general.
We grow a lot of food in one raised bed and a bunch of 5 gallon buckets.
I live in New Jersey commonly called the Garden State for its rich soil and farms. Those farms are being rapidly sold off because the offspring of farmers will not farm and the government taxes and regulates the farmer to death. The best option is to sell the land. Fertile land is being gobbled up by developers as the Farmers retire in Florida. NJ is becoming the concrete and asphalt state. Nobody cares that we import so much food from Mexico and China?
Yes, but then you’ll have to buy a new car sooner. Detroit thinks it’s great. An just think how it drives up the price of gasoline. What a deal!
Cha ching!
Why would you need to feed 1000s of people? One apple tree in the back yard will feed your whole block. Trade out with your neighbors for whatever they're growing in their yards.
Let one Monsanto seed be pooped by a bird onto your land and Monsanto will sue you for every inch of your land and then some.
It was said all corn today was Monsanto, yet somehow General Mills claims their cereals are GMO free.
People didn’t have as many food allergies before this big push for GMOs.
I knew a vegetarian who would order pepperoni pizza and throw the meat into the garbage. Excuse me, talk about being hateful to the animal that died just to be tossed out. She also didn’t understand the white cubes in Pork ‘n Beans which she enjoyed.
Someone else wouldn’t eat eggs because they were aborted chickens.
Deport all the illegals and those who have overstayed their visa welcome and we wouldn’t need all those new concrete developments or as much food.
The more disconnected one is, the more likely he will let food rot in his fridge and toss it in the garbage without a second thought. Too much food goes to waste in the US. Restaurants can’t donate to the homeless due to so many regulations. Our local grocery store can no longer give away food that is about to expire. It all has to be thrown in the garbage. Even day old bread and produce. There’s your food shortages and why more and more needs to be grown.
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