Posted on 02/13/2024 5:48:17 AM PST by MtnClimber
Woke farming? The ESG and DEI diseases are now afflicting agriculture.
Having spent the first two of my eight decades on our family’s small dairy farm in Wisconsin, it was ingrained early and often that hard work and common sense were keys to survival in the agriculture realm.
My follow-on decades were all embedded in higher education -- student first, then faculty and administrator -- and, there, hard work is significantly less tangible and common sense is non-existent. Nonetheless, I remained confident that American agriculture had stayed true to its roots -- hard work and common sense.
Can you imagine my surprise, then, when I read the woke headline from an agricultural trade publication, titled, “Feed industry must build own ESG journey”?
ESG? You’ve got to be kidding!
And, shockingly, the first sentence of the article was even worse: “Too often companies limit their view of environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) to carbon footprint and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).”
Have these people been living under a rock? Are they totally unaware of how bogus both ESG and DEI are in a functioning -- hard work and common sense -- world? Don’t they know they’re eating woke garbage?
Apparently not. The article was based on talks at the International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Georgia in late January. Not only that, it came out of a specific conference session entitled, “Feed Your ESG: How Feed Will Help Hit Sustainability Targets.”
Unbelievable! Evidently, these folks are unaware of the droves of investors running away from Wall Street firms focused on ESG. Have they not heard about billions being pulled from ESG funds last year? If they had, they might have a clue that there are huge problems with the concept of ESG they’re still advocating.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Well, why not. We already have a woke POTATUS.
The USDA is a farce. That agency wastes our money on employee traning programs such as ‘Proper Pronoun Useage’ and ‘Unconcious Bias.’
With the rise of corporate agriculture of course.
Which are no different than Soviet-style Kolkholzes.
I tried to read the original source article, and I got this website message there:
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I would like to have seen what the airhead was suggesting that farmers/farming now do, but, no, thanks, not opening myself up to that website’s advertising.
When? While we were all living our lives.
Yesterday I was investigating what tv channels we have and what was on them. I surfed into two channels that had activists giving testimony on global warming and some other made up horror that I don’t recall. These people were entirely in ernest in believing that real Doom was neigh. They had the aspect of an absolute fanatic . They in fact are religious fanatics and I realized as I listened to the words and tone that THAT guy on my tv screen would jail or kill unbelievers if he had the power. These people are both crazy and activist. They don’t have a life. Their phony religion IS their life and their justification. While we look after ourselves and supporting our family they WANT power and they work every day to get that power.
Electricity Comes from Walls
Food Comes from Shelves
When traitorous Demonicrats weaponized the USDA into a kakistcracy.
And who in their right mind would link ESG with DEI after all the abominable DEI news of late? The Harvard president was but one of innumerable examples of the destructive nature of that hiring practice -- i.e., employment disaster -- and that was in the national news repeatedly.
Back in December when I wrote my American Thinker blog about “today’s CR pandemic,” I hadn’t thought about that “grotesque, anatomically disfiguring disease” attacking individuals in American agriculture, but that was an obvious oversight. Clearly, they too can be blinded by cranial rectitus, thus “fail to ever see the light.”
Nevertheless, it’s disappointing to find the CR affliction in agriculture. Unquestionably, common sense has been lost along the way, but maybe that began when “industry” got tacked on after “agriculture.” The small family farms went by the wayside long ago and, sadly, intelligence disappeared with them.
Hopefully, hard work is still part of American agriculture, but air-conditioned cabs on tractors with stereo systems makes that questionable. And I can’t remember the last time I saw anyone slinging bales of hay or straw when we’ve been driving in the country. Stacking bales on wagons all day wasn’t fun, so I guess progress helped in that regard.
However, losing common sense in agriculture is certainly not progress. And it might help explain the ongoing decline of rural America. Wake up, folks! Plow the woke nonsense under and grow common sense again. Agriculture’s alarm is blaring!
When was the last time anyone involved in that publication plowed fields, harvested crops, milked cows, or did any other actual agricultural work?
Good question. When did every western country’s governmental institutions and “think tank” start insisting that growing food to feed the people is harmful to the planet?
Years ago, we were trying to assist third-world countries in learning how to grow food in their harsh climates. Now we are working to deny them electricity, coal, and modern advances in food production. The WEF is even trying to stop them from growing rice, a staple food for those countries for centuries, that has prevented the starvation of millions.
The only answer that makes sense is that they want to reduce the population of the planet.
The truth is livestock thrives on food humans can't digest, in the process producing concentrated nutrition humans can digest.
My family got out of farming because of early versions of ESG in corporate agriculture. I was sure my cousins would tell me it was because of federal or even state regulations regarding chicken houses and such. I was shocked to learn that the egg and chicken corporations themselves were putting the new burdens onto the chicken houses they buy eggs and broilers from (our word for chicken meat).
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My dad started taking a farm magazine PROGRESSIVE FARMER back in 1960. It always had good info in it so I took the same for decades.
In the mid 1970s the magazine was warning us about what to plant in THE COMING ICE AGE and how crops from the North would be planted in the South because the North would have a permanent ice field on them.
OK.
Then around 2005 they were warning us about what to plant to prevent Global Warming!
It appeared to me that they were printing what was popular at the time.
It was then I dropped the magazine.
Lysenkoism
Good one. Food comes from my farm here in central Kansas. Biden and his administration our trying their best to ruin my livelihood, because he knows not a single one of us out here in what I call “common sense country” voted for the POS.
Yeah, the purpose of regulation is not to protect the consumer, but rather the corporations being regulated.
American Thinker is a long time conservative publication. My parents had a print subscription when I was a teen. It is a trustworthy website. It’s ads have never frozen up my phone like the New York Post or Daily Mail does.
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