Attempts To Thwart Independence

It is well to remember H. L Mencken's quote that "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

At The Federalist today, Jessica Marie Baumgartner has an article entitled COVID Fearmongering Worked So Well, the Government Is Now Creating A Poultry Panic. Baumgartner has recently gotten into the backyard chicken raising craze in order to have fresh eggs for her growing family, herself and her husband. Eggs are considered one of the most complete bioavailable sources of protein and other vitamins and minerals you can find. After all, an egg is a little kit for building a chicken, so it should be.

In 2020, the supply chain experienced disruptions that no one in my generation had ever seen. It became even more apparent to those who believe in the power of self-reliance that it is up to us to take care of ourselves. Backyard farming began booming, along with an increased interest in raising chickens.

Since then, efforts to balance self-sustainable lifestyles have been threatened. Government interference in normal healthy practices continues to grow amid concerns over “public safety.”

During the pandemic, my family added fruit trees to our already-growing vegetable garden and discussed getting chickens. It offered a sense of peace in a time of unprecedented government overreach.

I had similar thoughts when the pandemic was going full steam. But I was put off that notion by the woman down the street who had had hens for years. No one ever complained. But then, a new president of our HOA took over and he was determined to enforce all the provisions of our HOA, including the provision that no one could have "farm animals" on their property. Now, remember that our properties are all two acres or more. Apparently, they threatened to take her home. I don't know if it is constitutional or not, but I decided not to test it.

Now as avian flu is making headlines, fears that “they’re coming for your chickens” are being realized.

Although the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) admits that “the current public health risk is low,” it also posted that more than 90 million detections have been found in wild birds and backyard and commercial flocks across 48 states.

Yet, in the fine print, they note that this number was compiled over a two-year period and offer no information on how the testing was administered, how deadly the virus is, or how many birds have recovered.

So once again, the numbers are being stacked to breed fear. Why?

Why indeed? Could it be that the institutions we used to trust have been hijacked by the globalists? We know that in the name of "Climate Change" a number of countries have called for the culling of the herds of cattle. They have talked about closing farms.  They want us dependent on their laboratory grown "meat" and to become vegans. But as Lierra Keith's book The Vegetarian Myth shows that vegetarianism and veganism are not moral alternatives to eating meat and are not healthy. While vegetables may contain proteins, they are not complete, and they also introduce poisons that slowly ruin your health.  It has been said that plants are trying to kill you.

We should all be suspicious of why the big, bad bird scare keeps getting pushed.

While constant death-toll counters were used to scare people about Covid, despite the fact that Covid was never as deadly as predicted and mostly affected senior citizens who are usually at risk for all illnesses, there have only been two cases of avian flu reported in the U.S., with no fatalities.

Two. Total. Out of hundreds of millions of people. Still there is a push for more testing, and even the development of two vaccines in the works — for an illness that has done virtually nothing.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-26/eat-less-meat-is-message-for-rich-world-in-food-s-first-net-zero-plan

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In addition, the latest bird flu scare happens to coincide with climate alarmists’ movement to prevent people from eating meat.

The globalist oligarchy, the World Economic Forum, claims that eating “lots of meat” is bad for the environment, and Bloomberg noted that the 2023 Paris climate agreement is slated to curb our “excessive appetite for meat.”

Although the narrative surrounding meat consumption focuses on the human carbon footprint, very few outlets are willing to report on the catastrophic effects of malnourishment, often developed due to a lack of meat consumption.

Baumgartener concludes with the truth that the more we are independent, the less we will be subject to being frightened into the government's idea of what our lives should be. We are slowly realizing that most of our government has been captured by the globalists, who do not care about you and me. They are in thrall to the international mega-corporations and their profits. We know that the WEF believes we need to cull the human population down to 500 million from the current 8 billion. They use climate crisis as the excuse, but what they are really thinking is that most of us won't have anything to do in their "brave new world."  Idle hands, right?  I think, as usual, these so-called "best and brightest" have no idea beyond their technological ideation. Men will always be needed to do the dirty and dangerous jobs these elite pansies won't do. But more than that, they have not figured out that people are endlessly inventive and will find things to do that have not been thought of yet.