Today is July 4, 2023. On this day, 247 years ago, the Continental Congress declared America's independence from Great Britain and set in motion the American Revolution and the great experiment that became the American Republic (note: not Democracy.) While I still celebrate the 4th of July, I no longer fly the flag of the United States because it is no longer the United States of America. In the United States, the government was made by the consent of the governed, as documented in the Constitution of the United States. But we are now governed by unelected bureaucrats who form a kind of artistocracy in which they are exempt from the laws they impose on us. As documented here many times, they ignore the Constitution when it is inconvenient. And indeed, the laws are twisted such that any disfavored individual can be targeted and prosecuted at any time these aristocrats want. It reminds of the old Soviet Union, where people kept their heads down so as not to draw unwanted attention to themselves.
Speaking of the doing things with the consent of the governed rather that flooding the zone with propaganda to convince the public of things the aristocrats want rather than the people themselves, is the climate change hoax. Of course there is climate change, because the climate has been changing since the dawn of time. But the idea that man is changing the climate (for the worst) is pure male bovine excrament. Which, interestingly enough, brings up a piece at the American Thinker today by John Klar entitled Conservatives Must Lead On Climate - With Cows!
Klar points out that traditional farming of crops depletes the soil of nutrients and slowly erodes away top soil. It also kills the microbiome that we all depend on to keep us safe and healthy. ( What the heavy use of antibiotics as well as the diets we eat that are heavy in grains does to our personal microbiome is a story for another day. Suffice it to say that many people subsist on a diet that is not a proper human diet.) On the other hand, pasture raised beef, and I would add other ruminants such as sheep and goats, actually protect the soils and the environments in which they live, and of course provide us with a proper human diet. Klar points out that the current rush to kill cows is all about power and profits for the rich. They intend to substitute manufactured "meat" mostly made from soy, that they will control. Soy is of course another monocultured crop that requires methane based fertilizer. But isn't that the justification offered for killing cows?
In truth, this is an effort to dominate all food production for power and profit, while polluting the planet even more rapidly with patented meat substitutes than cows could ever cause.
Nothing exposes the folly of fake climate alarmism more clearly than efforts to exterminate cows. John Kerry and AOC want to help the climate by reducing cow herds much as PETA wants to protect animals: by killing them.
But killing cows would accelerate climate damage.
The attacks on cows are premised on a series of falsehoods (lies) that are easily exposed and countered. Consider:
– Statistics for cow-bashing are based on CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) where cows are crammed together, fed a diet heavy in corn and other soil-destroying monoculture crops, and their manure collected in lagoons. Pasture-raised cows, in contrast, eat no grain, deposit their own manure back to the ground to rebuild soils, and harvest much of their own food without tractors.
– Cow manure rebuilds soils that are rapidly eroding due to intensive tilling practices and microbiome-damaging chemical applications, including synthetic fertilizers. Cow manure replaces commercial urea (manufactured from natural gas: methane) while populating soils with the vital microbes that are killed by industrial chemical augmentations.
– Cows moved back to pasture would quickly sequester more carbon dioxide than all renewable energy manufacturing combined. In fact, it is reckoned that in merely a decade, returning just some of America’s 94.5 million cows to pasture would sequester all the carbon released since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
– The synthetic meats we are told will replace cows are fabricated in massive factories that pollute in their construction, and then process plants harvested using destructive chemical and tilling practices into faux-meat that is unhealthy for both humans and the ecosystem. Soy is the favored vat-meat constituent, but what will be used to fertilize the soy---synthetic urea manufactured from natural gas, because the cows are all gone?
– Cow manure literally replaces lost soils. About 92 million acres of corn is planted in the United States annually, losing several tons of topsoil per acre each year to erosion. How will climate alarmists replace lost soils without cows?
– Since humans don’t desire to eat the proposed replacements for burger (made from insects or plants), the meat production stifled by WEF initiatives will be replaced elsewhere: perhaps by more clearing of rainforests in Brazil. Shutting down efficient dairy or beef farms will spike food prices, threaten shortages or even famine, and incentivize farming practices more destructive than those being displaced.
– As Americans become more dependent on foreign foods shipped thousands of miles, their food security (and national security!) is precariously placed. Supply systems are vulnerable to disruption, trucks are dependent on imported diesel exhaust fluid, industrial fertilizers are imported, trains derail, and Chinese inspection regimens are dubious. A local burger is a time-tested, reliable food source.
– Cows on pasture help plants retain more nutrients, and also much more water. Soy replacements saturated with chemicals will damage soils further, decrease water retention, and amplify water pollution. The nation is on the verge of a water crisis, fueled by agriculture that favors almonds over cows, and oat milk over bovine: but these alternatives require much greater water resources than cows.
That last may need explanation, since the propaganda often lists the amount of water cows need to be brought to market. Again, with pasture raised cows, most of the moisture they need is derived from the grass they eat, which like us is mostly composed of water. Cows do not deplete ground water resources as do crops. Their water comes from rain. Consider that the buffalo, another ruminant, survived by the millions on the great plains for generations and supplied the plains Indian tribes with much of their needs. They did not need the ground water as do corn, wheat, and soy. We no longer have huge herds of buffalo, but cows are a good substitute.
Klar is correct that what the climate alarmists are peddling is environmental destruction on an industrial scale that is designed to transfer the wealth of the citizens to the aristocrats of the far left, and turn citizens into serfs. If we want to be healthy, independent citizens, we must insist on a proper human diet consistent with our ancient hunter gatherer ancestors. Cows are an integral part of that diet. You would be surprised at how many "diseases" we suddenly don't need medication to control on such a diet.
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