As World Faces Food Shortage, Biden Pushes American Farmers to Take Fields Out of Production
Samantha Chang
July 1, 2021 at 9:44amThe Biden administration’s costly pipe dream of making nearly every one of its agenda items focused on combatting “climate change” is running into the brick wall of reality.
The latest taxpayer-funded boondoggle involves a program that encourages farmers to grow “carbon-capturing” crops that remove carbon dioxide from the air and divert it into the soil, Politico reported Tuesday.
However, the program doesn’t compensate farmers enough to make them overhaul the way they farm and reduce the amount of food they produce.
“While corporations are eager to buy credits that pay farmers to pull carbon dioxide out of the air and into their soil, the credits aren’t yet lucrative enough to entice enough farmers to rethink how they grow crops to maximize capturing carbon,” Politico’s Helena Bottemiller Evich and Ryan McCrimmon wrote.
Accordingly, most farmers aren’t participating in this “climate change” apparatus even if they wanted to because they simply can’t afford to.
“Despite talk about positioning farms to save the planet, the number of acres currently engaged in these carbon programs is minuscule,” Politico reported.
The efficacy of planting cover crops to combat “climate change” is questionable, but one thing is clear: Democrats are panhandling for more tax dollars to support this dubious “eco-conscious” federal program.
Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan — the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee — said the $1 billion that President Joe Biden had earmarked in his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package to help the agriculture industry reduce carbon emissions was “woefully inadequate.”
Stabenow wants $50 billion instead, according to Politico.
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