If they try to stop the food, I think they will be in for a rude awakening. Truckers deliver the food. They will cut off the big Democrat cities. Won't be pretty.
Government still has regulations that tell farmers what they can and cannot grow on their own land to this very day.
Still irritates me that farmers in California pay a tiny fraction of what citizens do for water so they can grow water-hungry crops like almonds on naturally dry land. Seems like it would make more sense to grow them in areas with higher rainfall averages, but that's anti-science or something.
Northern California almonds grow fine, and normally only require water in the later summer months when the nuts are maturing.
Southern California almonds on the other hand shouldn’t even exist. The southern end of the state gets the majority of their water from us, and their original water rights only allowed them to plant seasonal crops, because their rights are (or were) revokable in a drought.
So instead they planted orchards and lobbied for permanent rights, which is totally fucking us now. Even in drought years now we pump a shit-ton of groundwater to send south.
That being said, California is also one of two places on earth that has the perfect climate for growing almonds. The problem isn’t the crop, it’s the farmers who plant it where they shouldn’t.
Didn't they try to do this exact thing in the beginning of this scamdemic? Some farmers were told to kill their livestock, but at the same time we had a huge import of beef coming from Africa.
We had some weird stuff happening in Denmark. People that farmed mink (small animals with nice fur) were told to kill them immediately. Insane losses and that industry got fucked and still is fucked.
Now we're getting told that it's political overreach and it wasn't constitutional or whatever. The state now has to pay 18 billion back to the farmers. And guess what? The politicians don't pay shit, because all of that money is from taxes. I'm paying for their idiocy. Being a stupid or corrupt politician has no bad outcome.
Gates owns a tiny, tiny percentage of the farmland in the country. He's #49 on a list of people who own WAY more farmland than he does. Bill Gates is in no position to have any control over the food supply. He's just doing what most rich people at his level do - diversify. Land always holds value.
The person who should alarm you more is Jeff Bezos. He owns WAY more land than Gates, but doesn't (right now) seem to be doing much with it, and most of his land is ranching.
Bezos has a lot of tentacles in everything. Just saw yesterday, he's on the board of Robinhood. That should concern you, not Gates. Bezos is the big dog in the retail world, and his company ships a LOT of food now.
This is one reason why I'm seeking out local based farmer's markets. I'd like to make some friends who know how to grow food and live off the land when things get sideways. Maybe they could use some friends who know their way around technology, too.
On the bright side,
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I've been working on that buffer for over 10 years. Lol.
The reeducation camps will take care of that, comrade.
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Don’t eat sugar that way you can actually metabolize it. If you don’t you will waste more then Just fat
If they try to stop the food, I think they will be in for a rude awakening. Truckers deliver the food. They will cut off the big Democrat cities. Won't be pretty.
Government still has regulations that tell farmers what they can and cannot grow on their own land to this very day.
Still irritates me that farmers in California pay a tiny fraction of what citizens do for water so they can grow water-hungry crops like almonds on naturally dry land. Seems like it would make more sense to grow them in areas with higher rainfall averages, but that's anti-science or something.
Don't get me started about the sugar lobby in FL.
Northern California almonds grow fine, and normally only require water in the later summer months when the nuts are maturing.
Southern California almonds on the other hand shouldn’t even exist. The southern end of the state gets the majority of their water from us, and their original water rights only allowed them to plant seasonal crops, because their rights are (or were) revokable in a drought.
So instead they planted orchards and lobbied for permanent rights, which is totally fucking us now. Even in drought years now we pump a shit-ton of groundwater to send south.
That being said, California is also one of two places on earth that has the perfect climate for growing almonds. The problem isn’t the crop, it’s the farmers who plant it where they shouldn’t.
Turns out when you fuck with the free market like that you get droughts. Who could have guessed.
Didn't they try to do this exact thing in the beginning of this scamdemic? Some farmers were told to kill their livestock, but at the same time we had a huge import of beef coming from Africa.
We had some weird stuff happening in Denmark. People that farmed mink (small animals with nice fur) were told to kill them immediately. Insane losses and that industry got fucked and still is fucked.
Now we're getting told that it's political overreach and it wasn't constitutional or whatever. The state now has to pay 18 billion back to the farmers. And guess what? The politicians don't pay shit, because all of that money is from taxes. I'm paying for their idiocy. Being a stupid or corrupt politician has no bad outcome.
Just look WHO has been buying up farms in US ....cough ...Gates
Bill fucking Gates
It's an ominous sign. You know shit is about to go down when a billionaire suddenly decides to be the biggest land owner in the US.
And the Chinese.
Gates owns a tiny, tiny percentage of the farmland in the country. He's #49 on a list of people who own WAY more farmland than he does. Bill Gates is in no position to have any control over the food supply. He's just doing what most rich people at his level do - diversify. Land always holds value.
The person who should alarm you more is Jeff Bezos. He owns WAY more land than Gates, but doesn't (right now) seem to be doing much with it, and most of his land is ranching.
Bezos has a lot of tentacles in everything. Just saw yesterday, he's on the board of Robinhood. That should concern you, not Gates. Bezos is the big dog in the retail world, and his company ships a LOT of food now.
Think Omen II.
Yep, don't get the false sense of security in growing your own food. They'll take that too.
All they have to do is stop toilet paper. We've seen people freak out twice now.
This is one reason why I'm seeking out local based farmer's markets. I'd like to make some friends who know how to grow food and live off the land when things get sideways. Maybe they could use some friends who know their way around technology, too.
I bought a whole bunch of dogs and cats. I want to have the full Venezuela experience.
I feed the birds. It's like Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom in my back yard.