As World Faces Food Shortage, Biden Pushes American Farmers to Take Fields Out of Production

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As World Faces Food Shortage, Biden Pushes American Farmers to Take Fields Out of Production

Samantha Chang

July 1, 2021 at 9:44am

The 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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https://www.westernjournal.com/world-faces-food-shortage-biden-pushes-american-farmers-take-fields-production/

[Slide Rule]

It was popular during the depression. Government planes shot photos of farms to enforce less
plantings. They also had agents at the farms to kill and dispose of piglets. My father went to
the dump to look through discarded eggs to eat.

The idea then was a shortage would maintain a high price when the average guy didn't have a nickle
nor did he have any way of having a nickle.

Today that defective thinking applies to climate. How will we know we beat climate? And how
will we know if that was the thing to do?

Progressive shows itself.

[jafo2010]

Here's an idea.  Line all of us up and count off in 2s.  Take all the twos and eliminate them.  Climate change problem resolved.  With the way the Democommies are behaving, I would not be a little surprised if some of them fantasize this as a solution.

Climate change is horsesh*t!!!

[mountaineer]

https://twitter.com/4_04_Not_Found/status/1419644164023758856
See replies - there's a video from a guy who says farmers have received letters from USDA offering $3,800 per acre to destroy crops.

According to this (lefty?) site, the TikTok was posted as a joke. Who knows. https://www.greenmatters.com/p/government-paying-farmers-destroy-crops

[DCPatriot]

If I walked into a so-called "War Room", with the gigantic board of the United States where generals were using billiard bridges to build defensive positions in which to crash the delivery system and/or raise prices, this would be high up on the list/objectives.

[mountaineer]

When U.S. residents and citizens can't find food to feed their families (because farmers no longer produce corn and other crops), I'm sure they'll be happy to fall in line to get handouts from Uncle Sugar, and to comply with whatever restrictions are attached.

[libertybele]

https://twitter.com/4_04_Not_Found/status/1419644164023758856
See replies - there's a video from a guy who says farmers have received letters from USDA offering $3,800 per acre to destroy crops.

According to this (lefty?) site, the TikTok was posted as a joke. Who knows. https://www.greenmatters.com/p/government-paying-farmers-destroy-crops

Good find....just a note -- remember that Gates owns the largest amount of farmland in the U.S. 

They've jacked up the prices already to  make it difficult for families. 

This is despicable and downright sinful!!!!!

Our freezers full of food will only last so long as well as our dehydrated food.  Maybe it'll get us through the uprising that they want to create.