So Much Bull Sh...er...Manure

 There is a reason farmers use artificial fertilizers, as opposed to organic fertilizers like manure and compost.  Frankly, they would not be able to produce enough food to feed the world.  There simply is not enough manure in the world.  In the United States, so called "organic farming" can exist on smaller farms that have both animals and a variety of crops.  It requires letting a quarter of your land to lie fallow in any year, which is where you might pasture animals.  It requires a return to mostly small family farms, and it would require much more of our population to work at farming.

Is that the society we want?

Then there are countries with incredibly poor soil.  Fertilizers have helped to give these countries food security.  Indeed, that is what Andrea Widburg is writing about at the American Thinker entitled Sri Lanka shows what happens when we follow environmentalist principles. I doubt Samantha Power has ever grown a single vegetable in her life, let alone run a farm. And make no mistake, a farm is a business, that must make a profit by selling the produce of the farm to pay all of the expenses and hopefully bring a small profit. But I doubt Power understands that either.

Sri Lanka is facing agricultural collapse, which is a disaster in a nation that has only recently raised itself out of poverty...thanks to its agricultural growth. The cause is the outgoing government's decision to follow the environmentalist path and use only natural fertilizer. Meanwhile, here in America, Samantha Power, who is the administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, is pleased that the War in Ukraine is stopping the flow of fertilizer from Russia, allowing the world to go organic.

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What's so ironic about the situation is that, according to the same article from the London Times, it was synthetic fertilizer that turned Sri Lanka into a major agricultural exporter. Still, the greenies had to have their way, and now the economy is collapsing, and domestic food prices in Sri Lanka have quadrupled.

Additionally, the prime minister who spearheaded this disaster has resigned; there are running battles in the capital city and troops on the street; there are major shortages of essentials such as food, medicines, and oil; and power cuts are becoming the norm.

Many on the Left believe the world is overpopulated, which I believe is one of the reasons for their hysterical fear of the loss of abortion. It seems ghoulish, but I think they would rather see people starve to death in order to reduce the population. It is unfortunate that the world's population will contract quite naturally without their "help."