Posted on 12/26/2018 12:00:12 PM PST by ETL
Edited on 12/26/2018 12:14:14 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
After 40 years of dairy farming, I sold my herd of cows this summer. The herd had been in my family since 1904; I know all 45 cows by name. I couldn
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His real problem sounds to be bestiality. Cows in his family? That’s gross, man. Just gross.
Thanks for that. Very interesting.
Only 45 cows? Surprised he lasted this long. Economies of scale require at least 300-400 cows to make it work; maybe.
Blame the methane, we're doomed.
***Climate change would have made our future in farming that much harder.***
SAY WHAT! Forty years ago PROGRESSIVE FARMER MAGAZINE was forewarning us of THE COMING ICE AGE and farmers had better get ready to move farming operations to the South!
About four years ago, the same PROGRESSIVE FARMER MAGAZINE was warning of glo-bull warming, and farmers had better get ready for it.
I had been taking that magazine since around 1965 and saw a good reason to cancel my subscription.
So he goes into Tractor Supply and heads over to the ear tag rack and sees they don’t have any #18.
He asks the clerk who responds “Oh, we retired that number. She was a really great cow!”
[ I get all the milk I need from the grocery store.
For some reason, that sounds like something Ortasio-Cortez might say. ]
Yes, Grimmy wanted to show how the Leftists live as if everything will continue as normal.
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Ever wonder why milk is so low priced? Government subsidies. I knew people forty years ago who were planning on going back into the milking industry IF the government would raise the subsidy 2 more cents a pound.
That poor little guy. He’s wondering why he was left to face all those huge beasts alone. Makes for a great pic, though.
“I don’t know what made our food inedible, but I can’t do wheat, dairy, soy, apples, oats or almond”
Hybrids.
[ I get all the milk I need from the grocery store.
For some reason, that sounds like something Ortasio-Cortez might say. ]
Yes, Grimmy wanted to show how the Leftists live as if everything will continue as normal.
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That and the complete and total disconnect between their perception and actual functional reality.
From 2015...
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In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day, and in the years following, there was a “torrent of apocalyptic predictions” and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article.
Well, it’s now the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 15 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970? The answer:
“The prophets of doom were not simply wrong, but spectacularly wrong,” according to Bailey.
Here are 18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when the “green holy day” (aka Earth Day) started:
1. Harvard biologist George Wald estimated that “civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”
2. “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation,” wrote Washington University biologist Barry Commoner in the Earth Day issue of the scholarly journal Environment.
3. The day after the first Earth Day, the New York Times editorial page warned, “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”
4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.”
5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in a 1969 essay titled “Eco-Catastrophe! “By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
6. Ehrlich sketched out his most alarmist scenario for the 1970 Earth Day issue of The Progressive, assuring readers that between 1980 and 1989, some 4 billion people, including 65 million Americans, would perish in the “Great Die-Off.”
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….”
10. Ecologist Kenneth Watt told Time that, “At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.”
11. Barry Commoner predicted that decaying organic pollutants would use up all of the oxygen in America’s rivers, causing freshwater fish to suffocate.
12. Paul Ehrlich chimed in, predicting in his 1970 that “air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.” Ehrlich sketched a scenario in which 200,000 Americans would die in 1973 during “smog disasters” in New York and Los Angeles.
13. Paul Ehrlich warned in the May 1970 issue of Audubon that DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons “may have substantially reduced the life expectancy of people born since 1945.” Ehrlich warned that Americans born since 1946…now had a life expectancy of only 49 years, and he predicted that if current patterns continued this expectancy would reach 42 years by 1980, when it might level out.
14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
15. Harrison Brown, a scientist at the National Academy of Sciences, published a chart in Scientific American that looked at metal reserves and estimated the humanity would totally run out of copper shortly after 2000. Lead, zinc, tin, gold, and silver would be gone before 1990.
16. Sen. Gaylord Nelson wrote in Look that, “Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”
17. In 1975, Paul Ehrlich predicted that “since more than nine-tenths of the original tropical rainforests will be removed in most areas within the next 30 years or so, it is expected that half of the organisms in these areas will vanish with it.”
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.” ...”
I haven't had straight milk since I was a child but I do have a lot of dairy products such as whole-milk yogurt, cheese and grass-fed Irish butter (Kerrygold).
Jeff Bezos’ Post is concerned about small businesses dying??? Hmmm...
I don’t click on WP links, but the Government is directly responsible for this. It is the government and the left that pushed the factory farms on everyone. Now you get milk and dairy that is loaded with chemicals, and the land is laid waste.
“After 40 years of dairy farming, I sold my herd of cows this summer. The herd had been in my family since 1904; I know all 45 cows by name.”
45 cows is just a step over a hobby farm. It’s enough to be a pain in the ass, but not enough to make any money off.
Remember, there was NOTHING we could do about it. The die was cast. Settled science don't you know.
Fast forward forty years and our biggest societal problem is...wait for it...OBESITY! Also, we are still uncovering deposits of oil that will last us HUNDREDS of years to come.
That's why all this "global warming" nonsense is a bunch of baloney. These idiots have no idea what they are talking about. They can't even accurately predict what the weather will be three days from now.
[That and the complete and total disconnect between their perception and actual functional reality.]
I see them in action at Yahoo all the time. I have said many of them seem to be under the early beginnings of the Strong Delusion. They repeat whatever propaganda the Democrats and the MSM tell them to believe.
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