Making the Planet Fit for Food:
Climate Protesters Attack
Vermont's Dairy Farms
American Thinker,
by
John Klar
Original Article
Posted By: ScarletPimpernel,
1/15/2020 11:13:11 AM
The Vermont Governor’s annual “State of the State” address was interrupted this year by a loud group of protesters, who refused to stop screaming bizarre slogans until the Vermont State House session was closed so they could be physically escorted from the building. Amidst their shouts of “I’m afraid I’m going to die!” and “Climate justice is migrant justice!,” were repeated condemnations of Vermont’s “dairy industry.” This vague “industry” boogeyman is actually nonexistent in Vermont. The state’s dairy farms have steadily declined, and even its largest operations are puny in contrast to the mega-dairies elsewhere. The irony of attacking dairy farms by those who claim to be motivated
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 1/15/2020 11:52:25 AM (No. 289216)
I find even the farmer to be pretty propagandized, and a lot of what he says is just a degree less than the nuts that he is disagreeing with.
I am entirely unimpressed with people who are so ignorant as to worry about burning fossil fuels. Burning petroleum does no harm to the planet. CO2 is NOT a pollutant it is a requirement for plants to live, just like sunlight and water.
The insane leftists saying "I'm afraid I'm going to die"--? Well, they are RIGHT, they ARE going to die, as we all will.
I like dairy products and know how hard small dairy farmers work. We had several dairy farmer neighbors where my parent's retired, and I have been there on Christmas Eve repairing milking equipment, a very old machine, because they HAVE TO have it working two times every day, and they weren't making a lot of money with their 24/7/365 jobs. But we all have lots of dairy products.
If leftists have their way, we will starve.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/15/2020 12:03:29 PM (No. 289226)
The Communists wish to control us, they are trying to do that by changing our language, by changing the Constitution or dismantling it, and by controlling our food supply. If they can tax food producers out of business, they will control our access to food. Not many city dwellers could grow their own food. We'll just have to learn to eat our Bibles and our guns and ammo.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 1/15/2020 12:12:19 PM (No. 289232)
Much of life and living is a trade-off, you have to give up some over here to get a little over there. You want to eat a burger, you have to kill a cow. You can dip your cup in a stream for a cup of water, but to slake the thirst of billions, you have to build processing plants. You need bulldozers for that, and they run on fossil fuels. If it's dark outside, you need light, that means electricity. Lots and lots of electricity. I defy these 'newly stupid" woke children to throw a dinner party featuring as many sustainable offerings as possible to impress oh, how about a hundred guests. Let's see how they feed 100 using all their wonderful ideas, and note that the planet has how many billions? And let them tell us who they will eliminate first.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Avikingman 1/15/2020 12:22:22 PM (No. 289244)
For a couple of years, I lived in NH. Very pretty state, but the leftys found it and started infiltrating from MA.
MA has a tax free day - can you believe it?
Anyway, in NH then it was not uncommon to catch a bit of whimsy seeing signs with "Cow Hampshire" on them. And there were many dairy farms. I suspect even then they were not as numerous as earlier days. Beautiful site; rolling fields and cows, cows, cows. Right out of Gary Larson's cartoons.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Bazi 1/15/2020 1:29:00 PM (No. 289316)
Uh oh. How will they survive without Ben & Jerry's ice cream? Their dairy comes from Vermont farms.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
jacksin5 1/15/2020 2:40:06 PM (No. 289392)
These protesters are primarily city folk, from places like Socialist Bernie's Burlington. If the food trucks stopped rolling, they'd starve. Cows are domesticated animals, and have been for thousands of years. They cannot be "set free". Are these cellar dwellers demanding the wholesale slaughter of milk cows?
If so, it's time to take the ASPCA sticker off the back of the Subaru.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Videodrone 1/15/2020 3:36:35 PM (No. 289418)
Uncle had sheep and spent a few seasons doing what needed to be done, (younger brothers had to jump in the wool sack to pack the wool) and subsidized NZed ended that venture in the early 1970's.
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Must read, excellent piece by a farmer. These "food consumers" are total no-nothings when it comes to knowledge about how our food is produced.