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 ...
You are the carbon they want to reduce.
And within a few generations, the number of people who actually know how to farm will be down to about zero.
That’s when people start putting Brawndo on crops.
By creating major barriers to entry for small startups. You have to have a staff of people to keep up with, and maintain compliance with, government regs.
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