Inflation, global 'sustainability' push a potential death sentence for US Agriculture, farmers warn

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Fox News

 

American liberals who join their global counterparts in applauding the acclaim of "sustainability," among other interests, are ignoring the damage their policies are already wreaking on U.S. agriculture, farmers told Fox News.

 

While nationwide organizations like the FFA are going strong and statewide affairs like the annual Pennsylvania Farm Show and Iowa State Fair continue to draw exhibitors and guests alike, beneath the surface are troubling signs, two guests on  "The Ingraham Angle" warned this week.

Globalist "green" policies as well as inflation and rising costs have led to thinner herds, and in some instances, foreclosure or shuttering of farms altogether, bringing with them a potential domestic food crisis, they said.

"Farmers are going out of business every day," said John Boyd Jr., founder of the Black Farmers of America.

"What's happening is America's beef cattle producers are depleting their herds. So they're not having more calves so they can multiply."

 

Boyd said there has been a one billion pound decrease in U.S. beef production over the past year, warning it is an impending crisis that every American could discover one day at their grocer or butcher.

He noted the feds are keen on financially aiding farmers abroad, particularly in war-torn Ukraine, but have done little to help American agriculture.

"We have farmers facing foreclosure. And the USDA will not stop farm foreclosures in this country for direct loans, guaranteed loans and other agricultural lenders," he said.

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EU Climate, Cattle Flatulance Rules Threatening European Farmers’ Livelihoods, Driving Up Food Prices

Through the European Green Deal, European bureaucrats are ignoring citizen opposition in deindustrializing Western Europe and reducing its agricultural production.

They’re using climate laws to attempt to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The agricultural policy provisions of these laws—the euphemistically named Farm to Fork Strategy—have European farmers uniting in protest like never before.  

These laws are driving up food prices and reducing agricultural jobs while having practically no effect on the planet’s temperature. Using calculations from government models, even if the European Union had no emissions at all, it would only make a difference of 0.13 degrees Celsius by the year 2100.

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1 hour ago, Geee said:

Globalist "green" policies as well as inflation and rising costs have led to thinner herds, and in some instances, foreclosure or shuttering of farms altogether, bringing with them a potential domestic food crisis, they said.

Sometimes it feels like we're living through the Twilight Zone episode "Life is Good". . . 

"A 6-year-old controls his town with his ability to create or destroy anything with his mind."

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April 10, 2024

Inflation Came In "Hotter" Than the Always-Surprised "Experts" Expected

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Let's quote CNN to see how they're coping.

Stubbornly high US inflation grew stronger than expected in March

Surging gas prices and sky-high mortgages and rent sent inflation rising more than expected in March, adding to Americans' prolonged and painful battle with high costs. That could force the Federal Reserve to keep its punishing rates higher for longer.

Yup. As I've mentioned, the Fed wants to save Biden by cutting rates in time for the election, thus flooding more newly-printed dollars into the economy, but they can't as long as inflation keeps coming in "hotter than expected."

Just in time for the election, too.

The previous interest rate hikes imposed by the Fed were just not big enough to stop the inflationary tide of Biden's drunken-sailor spending spree.