A famine is as good an excuse to start my diet as any.
We must have central planning! Only smart socialists can save us! /sarc
Cuba. Every yard a garden. Every single area planted for food. That was done to feed the population. Everyone else worked the sugar plantations for export crop to Soviet countries.
He’s trying to placate the greens. What next? No private cars? Alternate gas days?
This guy is promising so much to so many, he’s going to fall on his face.
Where the heck has the GOP been on these issues? Destroying coal, agriculture, etc. and this is the first they are publishing this stuff.
“America has been warned...”
Disagree. Actually a few Freepers will read this article, and those that attend “Redstate”, but other than that America as a whole doesn’t know a damned thing about this.
Need to work to get this out to the public. I for one am sending this to everyone on my email address list with note to forward.
This was on WHO radio Friday. The noon farm show. Grassly was livid and said “typical Obama, says what he REALLY thinks one day then turns around and backtracks the next”.
Grassly was really unhappy about the comments. Yes, let’s blame the farm states for fat people and greenhouse gases (hey, CO2 is a GOOD thing, just ask ANY tree!)
Sometimes there is a reason for monoculture - climate, soil type, growing season. Our area has high nitrogen from frequent lightning strikes, a very short growing season and is at high elevation. Best for growing alfalfa hay and cows. That is basically all we grow as that is the highest and best use. Farmers tried to grow medicinal herbs and met with frost. They tried to grow sunflowers only they had to completely retool and field equipment and machines are expensive.
I have heard wildlife biologists suggest we put cows on a “water diet” or drip irrigate in pastures. They are clueless. They came in and pushed “efficient” pivot wheels that the government helped purchase. That changed the hydrology of the watershed. Now the groundwater is no longer recharged and the water leaves the area downstream faster, leaving little for summer flows. Also more land is irrigated at a higher cost than with flood or wheel line irrigation.
Our Ag extension does experiments on best crops and w3hat we traditionaly grow is just about it. Obama is ignorant.
Obama has less experience dealing with these sorts of issues than any of the four candidates running and he seems arrogant enough to move forward with sweeping reforms to entire industries based on faulty, naive assumptions. It’s extraordinary that he’s been able to go this far without anyone questioning his hairbrained schemes such as these quoted. He’s not making any sense.
It’s the Mugabe effect.
Following in the footsteps of Mugabe.
Maybe he is just trying to finish Kruschev’s “Five-Year Plan”
Every year I grow a favorite kind of melon in my garden that was developed in the USSR: "Collective Farm Woman." In ten years I will have tell people that it isn't a reference to our collective farms here in America.
“If he is willing to “bankrupt” the coal industry over global warming, what’s he going to do to the agriculture sector which “actually is contributing more greenhouse gases than our transportation sector”?”
I’m curious what legislation he would propose to accomplish either of these objectives. No matter what it is, we can now add farm states to coal producing states to the list of Senators and Congressmen who will support him and be thrown out in the mid-term elections. I have absolutely no doubt he believes this garbage, but he is beyond naive if he thinks he can get legislation passed which will bankrupt or harm coal producers or farmers.
Gotta bump this for tomorrow
Centrally planned agriculture! Gee, what a novel idea! Worked so well in the Ukraine!
Hey let’s turn into Zimbabwe! We’ll all be millionaires...then billionaires...then trillionaires...