KLAR: Food Supplies Threatened by Climate Change Policies
https://granitegrok.com/national/2025/10/klar-food-supplies-threatened-by-climate-change-policies
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The climate change crowd may or may not intend to undermine farmers and food production, but it is an obvious result. Displacing farmland with solar panels and “rewilding” fertile pastures to grow trees for carbon sequestration reduces available agricultural acreage. This drives up land prices, making it harder for young farmers to take the reins from the aging generation of US farmers seeking retirement. An additional threat to food supplies has emerged as low-cost feed sources for livestock are diverted to renewable energy production.
Diverting Cow Feed to Biofuels
Whiskey maker Jack Daniel’s announced that it is terminating its decades-old Cow Feeder Program in 2026. Spent grains from its distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee, will no longer be provided to local farmers; instead, they will be reallocated to Three Rivers Energy, a renewable energy firm that will process the material into fertilizer and biogas.
This shift supports Jack Daniel’s corporate goals of sustainability and reducing landfill waste. Still, it is a devastating economic blow to the area’s farmers, some of whom have relied on the bovine food source of castaway corn and grains for 45 years. This is a growing problem for farmers around the world – what makes environmental sense for large corporations senselessly destroys small family farm holdings, reducing overall human food supplies.
People can’t eat Chinese solar panels or EV car batteries. Cows have been routinely maligned by climate alarmists like Bill Gates and John Kerry, while more corporations proclaim they will replace cows with plant-based foods manufactured in yet more factories. The claims against cows are slanderous – rotationally grazed cows sequester massive amounts of carbon dioxide in the soil, feed vital microbiomes, and rebuild eroding farmlands, which helps retain precious groundwater. Well-managed pastures sequester more carbon dioxide than forests, and certainly far more than solar panel arrays misnomered perversely as “farms.”
.....EAT Commission Professor Walter Willett, M.D., Dr. P.H., from Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, declares in the Lancet report:
“Transformation to healthy diets by 2050 will require substantial dietary shifts. Global consumption of fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes will have to double, and consumption of foods such as red meat and sugar will have to be reduced by more than 50%. A diet rich in plant-based foods and with fewer animal source foods confers both improved health and environmental benefits.”
One need not be a farmer to realize what bogus bunk this is. Are these the same people who warned eggs and butter are bad to promote egg-free eggs and unhealthy margarine? How do GMO crops benefit the climate over grass-fed cows? Did Dr. Willett have a hand in the national food pyramid that prioritized cheap carbohydrates to bolster Kellogg’s profits and dangerously expand Americans’ waistlines?
Moore County, Tennessee, home of Jack Daniel’s distillery, is also home to hundreds of livestock farmers poised to lose generations of livelihoods because a Harvard professor with several letters after his name spews flatulent effluent about cows at a climate change conference. People need food to eat, not the Lancet to starve them.
..... Farmers and cows feed the world, not those who would starve humanity by controlling food supplies while fearmongering about “net-carbon.” America needs more farmers in government, and more bureaucrats shoveling slop to cows.
Ex-director of nuclear programs at Oak Ridge National Lab arrested on child sex charges
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The now-former Director of Nuclear Energy Programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been arrested following an investigation into allegations that he solicited explicit messages and images from underage girls.
Andrew Worrall, 56, faces charges of attempted coercion and enticement, sex trafficking of a child, and exploitation of a child for the purpose of producing child pornography. He is no longer employed at the US Department of Energy’s largest national lab, a spokesperson told 6 News.
An investigation began earlier this year after an 18-year-old woman emailed screenshots of text conversations between her and Worrall to an ORNL employee ethics hotline. According to the criminal complaint, she told Worrall that she was 16 years old and the text messages were sent from a phone number listed as his official ORNL contact. Dialogue included in court documents show he offered to meet her and went on to discuss possible travel arrangements.
Investigators reviewed Snapchat data from an account linked to Worrall and found sexually explicit communications with “many users” who stated they had not yet reached the age of 18. One user interviewed during the investigation said that Worrall sent her $20 in exchange for explicit images and videos according to court documents. Agents confirmed she was underage at the time by reviewing her driver’s permit.
The Snapchat account was traced to Worrall’s home in Farragut and investigators obtained a search warrant for the residence earlier this month.