As a class, farmers are natural enemies of socialist governments. It’s true that they can be corrupted, much as many farmers have been in the US with subsidies since the 1930s. But farmers tend to be independent freethinkers.
Governments, therefore, hold them in suspicion and are inclined to pay special attention to farmers.
Interestingly, the #1 mission of the USDA, stated on its website, is to combat climate change. Not to improve food production.
by Doug Casey
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International Man: Recently, we have seen governments in the Netherlands, and Canada move to shut down farms under the pretext of climate change.
According to John Kerry, Biden’s “climate czar,” similar moves against US farms are in the works.
The US and the Netherlands are two of the largest agricultural producers in the world.
It seems certain Western countries are waging war against farmers in the name of climate change.
What is really going on here?
Doug Casey: I hate to say that things like COVID or a rabid belief in anthropogenic climate change are parts of a conspiracy—although it often seems that way. I tend to discount conspiracies for a number of reasons. It seems more likely they’re mass hysterias—the type of thing that happened in Salem at the end of the 17th century, except on a gigantic scale. Versions of the kind of “group think” that captured a number of countries in the 20th century, as well.
In any event, what appears to be a war against agriculture on the part of “the elite” is both real and serious. People in power are anxious to control every aspect of the plebs’ lives, usually either for the supposed good of humanity or the planet itself. They believe there should be rules governing where the plebs live, what they can say and think, and even what they eat. The “elite” like to say farm animals are partly responsible for global warming by emitting methane.
But maybe it’s more than that. Maybe it’s a general belief, even among the plebs themselves, that the world’s population, composed mostly of useless eaters, is too high. The powers that be have said on any number of occasions that eight billion people is “too many” and that an optimal level would be less than a billion.
Here’s an outlandish thought: They can’t put people in gas chambers anymore and hope to get away with it. But perhaps reducing the quantity and quality of their food consumption, among other measures, can have the same effect. A crazy thought? Don’t forget that governments have sponsored wars, famines, and persecutions that have killed hundreds of millions. There’s no reason to think that today’s “elite” are any less nefarious than their antecedents. Rather the contrary…
There’s plenty of evidence that the kind of people who control the world and run governments have evil intentions toward their fellow humans. Even while they masquerade as philanthropists and humanitarians, they typically treat them either as a means to their ends or a nuisance.
International Man: Government central planning of agriculture can be catastrophic.
For example, millions of people perished in famines in the Soviet Union due to disastrous policies forced upon farmers.
Do you see any parallels today?
Doug Casey: Government, as an institution, is congenitally incapable of creating anything.
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