Well that didn’t take long. Usually socialists need a few years to start producing agricultural reforms that lead to famine. Obama clocks in at just over 11 months.

I was already predicting worldwide agricultural shortages over the next decade. Now I’m going to double down on my AG investments. Thanks, Barry!

Wow….still trying to make policy based on fake climate data. Obama, ill buy you and your family a plane ticket back to kenya any time you like. There is a village there that has a dipshit opening.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food.

I wonder what these trees will taste like.

Vilsack will “revise” a computerized forecasting model? There’s another term, it’s called “hacking.”

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“No it’s not. It’s Trees! You know, many parts are eatable.“

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Only in the movie. ;)

“Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model”

Utter silence from the “pro-science” left.

Utter silence from the “pro-science” left.
Posted by Mike_M 2009-12-30 12:29:21

To the Left, science is like polling. When the results agree with their pre-conceived conclusions, it is definitive and the end of the discussion. When it does not agree, then it is flawed and must be changed or ignored.

How interesting that they claim all this data supports their presumptions, yet they use “computer models”, where data can be selected or ignored, and a single transposed number or reversed sign can redically change the outcome.

Pro-Science Left? HARDLY!

What’s scary is that in the past when price support regulations demanded that farmers raise their crops on smaller acreages in order to reduce supply, the farmers began fertilizing the shit (pun completely intentional) out of those smaller plots in order to increase their yields. So we are alread operating on a fairly well maxed-out body of farmland. Reducing it farther (in light of a growing population) is craziness.

There’s a reason that I support farm subsidies (for food, not trees). Germany almost starved to death in WWI due to a naval blockade even though it is almost completely landlocked, and Britain faced the same dilemma in both world wars.
Once a nation loses its ability to feed itself, it is finished. If we allow out farming industry to be destroyed, either by economic, or idiotic political reasons like this, famine will be a very real possibility. Food production is a national security issue.

Farming isn’t like taking orders at Burger King. It requires a very specific skill set that must be passed on from generation to generation. You can’t just train the new guy in a week and put him to work. Once it is lost, it is almost impossible to regain. Just ask Zimbabwe.

We’ve handed our manufacturing industry over first to Japan, and now to China. There isn’t a single TV, DVD player, or video game system manufactured in the US. We are selling, and giving away our automotive industry to China. Piper Aircraft was sold earlier this year to a Singapore based company, officially starting the move of our general aviation industry to the East.

Our food supply is essential to our survival, and as long as it only requires a very small portion of our population to feed the whole, then we will be able to rebuild the other industries when the time comes to do so. That time will come when the nation finally realizes that the liberal policies, abusive tort law, union conglomerates, and oppressive government regulations, have to be abandoned so that we can start building and exporting again.

“So we are alread operating on a fairly well maxed-out body of farmland.”

Hey, remember the mandates that are forcing huge swaths of farmland into fuel production for the ethanol boondoggle (and at the expense of other crops)?

Now might be a good time to give that Survival Seed Bank ad a click. And to think up until now I laughed it off as hyperbolic alarmist nonsense. That’s liberal policy for you.

Remember what Tony Blair and the Labour Party did to those farmers who were getting ready to march on London?

When there was NO evidence of any BSE in their area?

Herd people into the cities, make them dependent on government handouts and make food unaffordable.

It’s the same strategy Democrats used against Native Americans.

It’s the same strategy Lenin and Stalin used against their citizens.

It’s the same strategy Mao used against his own people.

What an incredibly bad idea. Population is rising not just here but around the world, and as others have pointed out, agricultural efficiency here is already near maximum given our technology, and there are already pressures to take land out of food production for non-food uses. What this oxygen thief is proposing will do to food prices exactly what Mr. Obama promised his energy policies would do to energy prices – make them skyrocket. So far, by my very unofficial count, Mr. Obama’s administration has proposed policy initiatives which would: dramatically raise the cost of energy; dramatically raise the cost of food; raise the cost of health care by some unknown amount, and finally, raise taxes by some unknown amount.

Vilsack has probably already broken his arm from patting himself on the back at his own cleverness, because the long-term result (and very likely the ulterior motive) of this plan will be population decline, and Vilsack is enough of a moron to believe that the best, most noble thing people can do is to die so that Gaia can live on. What a waste of skin he must be to propose such a thing.

As is always the case, I invite those with schemes which are antithetical to the survival of the human species to go into that dark unknown first.

“Vilsack has probably already broken his arm from patting himself on the back at his own cleverness, because the long-term result (and very likely the ulterior motive) of this plan will be population decline”

Vilsack is a lawyer raised and educated in big cities. He doesn’t know jack #1 about agriculture or the environment. He got Ag because he moved to and got elected in his wife’s home state where they happen to grow a lot of corn, and Obama thought it would look swell to have someone in his Cabinet from one of those farmy flyover states.

Of course knowing absolutely nothing about his job makes him emminently qualified to serve in the Obama Administration.