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The Eco-Elites’ Insane War On Farming Shows Their Hatred For Humanity

by Brendan O'Neill
July 19, 2023, 1:31 PM
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dairy farm cowsShould we kill all cows? Amazingly, it’s a question the green elites are asking. ‘Cow burps’, with their methane, contribute 14.5 percent of the world’s greenhouse-gas emissions.

Cow dung releases ammonia, a nitrogen compound that damages natural habitats. From both their mouths and their behinds, cows cause pollution. So let’s cull them. [emphasis, links added]

Earlier this year, the Irish government proposed the slaughter of 200,000 cows to help it meet its climate targets.

The Dutch government has flirted with the idea of reducing livestock numbers by 30 percent to ‘reduce damaging ammonia pollution.’ ‘Should we kill trillions of animals to save the planet?’, headlines ask.

So this is where environmentalism is at: slaughter the cows to save the planet. And you thought it was a happy-clappy animal-loving ideology. ‘The complete eradication of cows and pigs… will eventually save the planet’, as one writer put it a few years ago.

Of course, mad as our governments are, it’s unlikely they’ll take the stun gun to millions of cows anytime soon. And yet they are pursuing policies that will cause cow deaths.

They have sworn themselves to climate targets that could lead to the decimation of livestock. They have, insanely, gone to war with farming.

I’ve never been into animal rights, but I’m wondering if we need a ‘Save the Cows’ movement to counter the irrationalism of a political class that now puts eco-concerns ahead of everything, even food production.

Consider Ireland. The government is apparently not going to pursue the suggestion that it bumps off 200,000 cows. It came from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

In order for Ireland to get closer to the Holy Grail of Net Zero emissions, we might have to kill 200,000 dairy cows at a cost of 600,000 Euros to taxpayers, a department document said.

But it was only a ‘modeling’ scenario, not a ‘final policy decision’, officials insisted last month.

Let’s leave to one side that it’s bizarre the Department of Agriculture was even talking about slaughtering thousands of cows, potentially devastating some farmers’ ability to make a living.

More importantly, Ireland is already drafting policies that could have similar cow-obliterating consequences, only indirectly.

As part of its Climate Action Plan 2023 adopted under pressure from the eco-zealous European Union, Ireland has outlined how it intends to slash carbon emissions over the next decade.

And given that agriculture accounts for around 33 percent of Ireland’s greenhouse-gas emissions, it has found itself in officialdom’s crosshairs.

The government is heaping pressure on farmers to cut their pesticide use, go more organic, and return some of the land they cultivate back to nature.

One suggestion that’s really worrying Irish farmers is that they might have to slash the amount of nitrogen they use on their farmland from 250kg per hectare per year to 220kg per hectare per year.

This would have a ‘catastrophic impact… on some dairy farms’, says the Irish Farmers Journal. Farmers would be forced to choose between obtaining more land, which is expensive, or cutting their cow numbers, which is undesirable.

The end result, reports the Irish Examiner, is likely to be ‘a reduction in herd numbers.’

In short, cows will die, sacrificed at the altar of Net Zero. Ancient civilizations sacrificed animals to appease angry deities, and to keep favor with the weather gods.

Our civilization sacrifices animals to try to placate vengeful Mother Earth who is apparently furious at our agricultural and industrial hubris. No wonder Irish farmers are up in arms.  …

How extraordinary that farmers have to fight for the right to farm. That the people who make our food have to assemble to say: ‘Let us carry on making your food.’

It is a testament to the unreason of public life in the 2020s that the cultivation of land, breeding of livestock, and production of dairy and meat – all things we once celebrated – are now ‘vilified’ as a pox on nature.

The protesting Irish farmers are not only striking a blow against the Net Zero delusions of Dublin elites who’ve probably never set foot on a farm – they’re also standing up for reason and modernity.

They are defending the view of agriculture as a force for good, a force for civilization, against an establishment that is now so in thrall to the neo-religion of Net Zero that it sees every human interference in nature, even farming, as a wicked thing to be curtailed.

The Irish farmers take their place alongside other farmers in Europe who are in revolt against the eco-elites.

Dutch farmers have been in a state of protest for almost four years, pushing back with all their might against climate targets that could lead to the closure of 3,000 farms and the slaughter of countless cows.

German farmers are agitating against a new EU law calling for the restoration of natural habitats that they worry will eat into farmland, essentially returning their usefully cultivated land to the whims and wildness of Mother Nature. (Strikingly, in Strasbourg last week angry farmers clashed with Greta Thunberg and other young eco-upstarts who had gathered to support the EU’s anti-farming measures. Privileged youths whose only contribution to society is eco-piety vs farmers who make the stuff that keeps us alive? I know whose side I’m on.)

That law that German and other European farmers are ticked off about sums up how unhinged the new elites have become. It’s called the Nature Restoration Law. It was adopted by the European Parliament last Wednesday.

The law sets binding targets for 20 percent of the EU’s territory to be ‘restored to nature by 2030’. Critics insist it will hit farmers hard, encroaching on their land.

It could lead to the ‘liquidation’ of millions of hectares of agricultural land, said Beata Szydło, the former prime minister of Poland, a nation that vociferously opposes the law.

And of course, turning Europe into a big natural reserve for the likes of Greta to enjoy won’t do anything to dent global emissions anyway.

Meat production will just be outsourced to other countries, like Brazil, potentially increasing the emissions involved in the creation and transportation of foodstuffs. It really is a kind of madness. …

We cannot let their hysteria stand. Human civilization began with agriculture 12,000 years ago.

Everything that makes us human – cities, culture, language – sprang from our discovery of farming. Make no mistake: their hatred for farming is a hatred for the human project itself.

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Comments 10

  1. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    2 years ago

    In other news a Tornado in North Carolina damaged a Pfizer Plant would could this mean?!

  2. David Lewis says:
    2 years ago

    The policies above which will reduce food production are an extreme contradiction to immigration policies which increase the need for food. This is especially true for Ireland that is letting in a massive number of immigrants considering the size of its population. Immigration also increases the emission of gasses that these governments want to control. The same conflict of policies also exists with the Biden Administration.

  3. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    2 years ago

    Save the Earth strand Eco-Freaks on a Island let them live there and see what its like Gilligan’s Island No Phone No Light No Motorcar and lets see how long they can go without all their Modern Convinces the same thing these Nit-Wits want to do with us

  4. geoff bancroft says:
    2 years ago

    Save the planet, Eliminate Humans.

  5. Graham McDonald says:
    2 years ago

    “Never set foot on a farm.”

    If you’re in a dairy at milking time, and see the milk coming into a stainless steel vat up close to the roof, then trickled down over refrigeration coils into 15 gallon cans. Not homogenized, no Vitamin D added, no cream fat removed, not pasteurized, and tastes great. Been there, done that, any number of times back in the 1950’s. The dairy was just 300 yards from home, and I also helped deliver bottled and raw milk on weekends.

  6. Spurwing Plover says:
    2 years ago

    These Back to Nature freaks want to force us to all go Vegan or depend upon some plant based junk could this all be part of the Great Reset/NWO? with Gates with Blood on his Hands

  7. Curt Pegram says:
    2 years ago

    I am all for culling the tyrant elitists who are contaminating the planet with ideological insanity, political madness and ceaseless unscientific propaganda.

    Let’s round them up, incarcerate and reeducate them and confiscate the entirety of their assets. These sub-human incarnations of purest evil are the population that needs thinning.

    It is abundantly clear that war against the human race is already being waged. Now is the time to respond with the overwhelming powers of truth, fact and unfettered scientific integrity. I must add that brute force must be promised then brought to bear upon those guilty of plotting to enslave people by lowering standards of living to medieval third world conditions.

    Sign me up for the counteroffensive.

  8. Liardet Guy says:
    2 years ago

    Sorry add a naught. 1.7ppm. We’re all gonna die

  9. Guy Liardet says:
    2 years ago

    What is %age of methane in our atmosphere? 0.0017? I forget

  10. David Lewis says:
    2 years ago

    In the 19th century a million people in Ireland starved to death. It is amazing that the country may implement polices that have such a drastic impact on food production.

    Across the Atlantic in what is now the United States, bison (buffalo) herds emitted almost as much methane as domestic cows do today.

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