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Against a Dystopian Farm-Free Future
The American Conservative ^ | May 13, 2023 12:01 AM | Ashley Colby

Posted on 05/13/2023 5:50:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In an effort to make diets and agriculture “sustainable,” urban bureaucrats make policy based on industrial agricultural data, completely ignoring experience and practices coming out of holistically managed operations.

Some green activists have come to the conclusion that agriculture itself is necessarily destructive to the climate, biodiversity, and soil health. Thus World Economic Forum–adjacent thinkers call for a “farm-free future” with food primarily manufactured via precision fermentation and other scientific processes that result in products like lab grown meat. This idea, that we could simply eradicate the entire class of farmers, the land stewards who produce the world’s food—84 percent of whom are smallholders—in favor of corporate processed food products has been spiking in interest, especially among Silicon Valley types.

Chief among these “farm-free” advocates is George Monbiot, a vegan activist and, naturally, a Guardian columnist. A champion on the other side of the debate is Allan Savory, the originator of the idea of “Holistic Management” for livestock systems who has spent his life managing game reserves and ranchland around the world. Monbiot and Savory have engaged in an ongoing debate, which represents two very important poles in the fight for the future of our environment: reductionist eco-modernism versus a holistic, regenerative approach to land management.

An eco-modernist like Monbiot sees humans as the enemy, a fundamentally flawed and dangerous creature meant to be removed from pristine nature if that ecology is to have any chance. The holistic approach, typified by Savory, sees human beings as stewards of the Earth, a force for good when guided by the right principles. How did the environmental and conservation movements become so divided?  

The most recent iteration of the debate was a Guardian interview wherein Monbiot took Savory to task over his claims that...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal

1 posted on 05/13/2023 5:50:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

At least the sacred earth can finally heal, sarc!


2 posted on 05/13/2023 5:52:44 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I remember an old bumper sticker from the 60s...

EAT THE RICH

I guess they weren’t kidding.


3 posted on 05/13/2023 5:55:23 AM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“ Thus World Economic Forum–adjacent thinkers call for a “farm-free future” Flawed logic. Since there’s more of us than the nefarious WEF NAZI’s, and American Farmers and hungry citizens too have guns this will not end well for them. Start paying attention to the WEF membership list, you’ll see some names you’ll recognize, Dan Crenshaw, Tulsi Gabbard to name two. Crenshaw needs to be retired anyway he’s nothing more than human pyrite. IMG-0053
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4 posted on 05/13/2023 6:11:01 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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5 posted on 05/13/2023 6:20:21 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And we can do all that farming on the moon.
we don’t need the earth, we can do it on the moon

All futurist crappola which is not viable today.
Same with the we don’t need fossil fuels

The obamanite wankers haven’t thought that through neither but they have the west convinced to the point where we are cutting our throats by govt edict.

Fubo


6 posted on 05/13/2023 6:22:40 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Bratch

Perfect! Thanks.


7 posted on 05/13/2023 6:24:14 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The marketplace is going to decide there is a place for both. Regenerative, holistic may be well intended but inherently limited by price and available land that obviously can’t feed all people and animals on this earth.


8 posted on 05/13/2023 6:29:51 AM PDT by erlayman
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Regenerative, holistic may be well intended but inherently limited by price and available land that obviously can’t feed all people and animals on this earth.

You swerved into the actual goal.

9 posted on 05/13/2023 6:34:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Going farm free will be a step backwards for those societies dumb enough to do it.


10 posted on 05/13/2023 6:39:23 AM PDT by KittyKares
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To: himno hero

Agriculture, and the technology that has built it into one of the greatest of capital-building enterprises, has been what has sustained the ever-growing population of the world, and only in places where agricultural practices are badly applied, have there been famine and want.

I do see a future in which there are “urban farms”, high-rise structures where the techniques of growth lighting and hydroponics is applied to their maximum effectiveness. Being in urban areas, the transport costs from the growing locality to the processing facilities are minimized, the transport to consumer similarly shortened, sort of a super farmers’ market. But this will require enormous quantities of cheap and reliable energy, for both warmth and light, two very essential components for plant germination and growth.

But lab-grown protein is still a pipe dream. Plant protein in and of itself is mostly incomplete, as it takes animal protein to supply ALL the essential proteins human beings (and most other animal life) require on a continuing basis.


11 posted on 05/13/2023 6:52:46 AM PDT by alloysteel (Fiction has to be at least plausible, while reality obeys no such constraint.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Soylent Green


12 posted on 05/13/2023 7:09:37 AM PDT by VinnieCCT
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To: alloysteel

Cultured protein IS animal. Cells can be fed what goes on in an animals body which means it has exactly the same nutritional components as traditionally made meat (potentially both the good and bad). The only difference is instead of killing billions of animals every year it is grown in a sterile lab with a few cells.


13 posted on 05/13/2023 7:10:38 AM PDT by erlayman
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There will still be farms. It will be where organ donors are grown.


14 posted on 05/13/2023 8:39:56 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To these advocates, don’t take this the wrong way, but FOESAD,MF! If you take it the wrong way, I’ll spell it out: FUCKOFFANDDIE,MOTHERFUCKERS!!


15 posted on 05/13/2023 9:43:19 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: bigfootbob

I always thought Dan Crenshaw was a RINO, that eyepatch is scary! Maria is a member?


16 posted on 05/13/2023 10:40:21 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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