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Elites attacking agriculture again: Let them eat bugs!
American Thinker ^ | 08/08/2023 | Eric Utter

Posted on 08/08/2023 9:38:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Special presidential envoy for climate John ("Effing") Kerry recently took time out from flying around the globe in his private jet to warn the world that climate change cannot be conquered without first dramatically reducing the agriculture sector's emissions.  Kerry asserted that agriculture production alone creates roughly 33% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions and argued that reducing those emissions must be "front and center" in the quest to defeat global warming.

Giving the keynote address at the Department of Agriculture's "AIM for Climate Summit" on August 2, Lurch the former secretary of state said:

A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33% of all the emissions of the world. We can't get to net-zero, we don't get this job done unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here the depths of this mission.

Kerry added that "lives depend" on our ability to lower agricultural emissions. 

That's simply not true.  In progressives' parlance, it's "disinformation."  Or, as Trump might say, "fake news."  Actually, lives depend on people having enough food to eat.  Dramatically reducing the number of farms — or otherwise making it vastly harder for farmers to be productive — is the dumbest and worst thing we could do at this point.

But elites like Kerry, who ironically came into wealth by marrying the heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune, have no compunction about putting everyone but themselves on starvation diets.  "Let them eat bugs," they say.  Maybe we could smother them in ketchup.

Kerry wasn't the only noted climate change alarmist bloviating of late.  Vice President Kamala Harris recently called on the U.S. to "reduce population" in an effort to combat climate change.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: agriculture; climatechange; food; supply
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1 posted on 08/08/2023 9:38:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Plants thrive on CO2 and absorb a staggering amount of it while releasing oxygen.  But, as usual, these global warming–mongers refuse to acknowledge that the world is significantly greener because of additional CO2.  And a greener world can produce more food — which is better for wildlife, people, and the planet as a whole.  Not to mention tomato production, John.

We are growing more food on the same amount of land than we ever have before.  Yet our leaders, such as Macron, TrudeauRutte, Harris, and Kerry, don't like that.  What does that tell us?

In places like Minnesota, the Democrat party is officially referred to as the DFL, or Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.  Note to Dems: whereas John Kerry used to drop "eff-bombs," you might just wanna drop the "F" from DFL.  False advertising, you know.

2 posted on 08/08/2023 9:39:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Besides Stalin, it’s hard to think of historical examples of government overly hostile to food production across the board.
It means they literally want you dead. Never give up your guns, no matter what they say, it’s coming folks.


3 posted on 08/08/2023 9:43:05 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kerry added that “lives depend” on our ability to lower agricultural emissions.

More importantly, “lives depend” on eating food. I honestly cannot believe they are going after the food supply. It’s not surprising when you realize they truly want to depopulate the earth.


4 posted on 08/08/2023 9:44:04 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Control the food supply, control the people.


5 posted on 08/08/2023 9:45:40 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: SeekAndFind

I can think of a way to reduce population. But the Democrats aren’t going to like it.


6 posted on 08/08/2023 9:46:21 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not a government. It's a criminal enterprise. Fear it, but do not respect it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Now that I think about it, even Stalin didn’t hate food production. He wanted more of it … so he could steal every kernel and sell it for cash.
Only the jackasses occupying DC actually want to CUT food production.


7 posted on 08/08/2023 9:46:50 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another day, another attempt from the climate change cult to scam us into poverty.


8 posted on 08/08/2023 9:49:38 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: DesertRhino

Not to be out done by Uncle Joe, Mao Tse-tsung sold entire years worth of crops and 38 million starved to death, proving he had more grain then the USSR to sell.


9 posted on 08/08/2023 9:51:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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I hate to tell everybody this, but our insects are dying off! I haven’t seen many bugs for past several yr. No fireflies or lightning bugs this yr. Nor do many bugs hit windshield.

Where r our bugs?? Used for food, killed by our insecticides?


10 posted on 08/08/2023 9:53:20 AM PDT by Karoo
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To: SeekAndFind

We let them run uninhibited. We hate it, but they are like gnats: merely aggravating. However, mess with my food, make me hungry at your own peril. I will not “eat zee bugs” as Klaus would have it. There is a line to be drawn. I will not go quietly. I will not be subjugated by communist totalitarians while there is breath in my body and ammo in my stash.


11 posted on 08/08/2023 10:03:12 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: SeekAndFind

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12 posted on 08/08/2023 10:13:41 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

VP Harris is the dumbest fool in politics....She wants the US to reduce its population but the Marxist Dems are bringing 15 million illegals over the borders. What a clown?


13 posted on 08/08/2023 10:18:24 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Meanwhile, John “people like me” Kerry will continue to dine on the finest agricultural products as he surfs ‘n turfs his way around the world in his quest to starve most of the planet.


14 posted on 08/08/2023 10:22:58 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it would be interesting if someone asked John F’n how much he thinks a loaf of bread or a pound of ground beef costs.
“Two, maybe three hundred dollars?”


15 posted on 08/08/2023 10:23:20 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it would be interesting if someone asked John F’n how much he thinks a loaf of bread or a pound of ground beef costs.
“Two, maybe three hundred dollars?”


16 posted on 08/08/2023 10:26:39 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: SeekAndFind

When they order Millions to eat bugs we’ll find out how dangerous it is


17 posted on 08/08/2023 11:05:36 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: DesertRhino
I been knowing that for years. As we are on Free Republic.com, they are plotting on how to kill us without our knowing it until it is too late. The Jews never believed Hitler wanted to wipe them from the Face of the Earth until he demonstrated it to them.

The Jews of 1940 don't have a thing on us. 99% at least of the Citizens believe that their Government wants to do them in. And the Titanic sails on.

18 posted on 08/08/2023 11:14:50 AM PDT by sport
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To: SeekAndFind

“Let them eat bugs,” they say.”

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I have a suggestion on what the neo-communist progs can do regarding ingesting bugs.

It has nothing to do with putting them in their mouths.

I wonder what they would say or do...

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19 posted on 08/08/2023 11:33:06 AM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

***More importantly, “lives depend” on eating food. ***

They seem to forget, HUNGRY PEOPLE are a dangerous people. The French Revolution and the Reign of Terror comes to mind.


20 posted on 08/08/2023 11:37:46 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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