Growing your own vegetables is bad for the planet

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Have you ever made a prediction and wished you’d recorded it?

Last week, in a phone conversation with a family member, they happened to mention growing their own vegetables, and I said in reply “Enjoy it while you can, they’re gonna start claiming it’s causing climate change soon.”

Literally four days later...



Apparently, a new study from the University of Michigan has found that “urban gardening” is 5 (or maybe 6, they’re not sure) times worse for the environment than “conventional crops”.

I don’t know how they calculated it, and it doesn’t really matter. If you read the bodies of the articles they even say it only applies to some vegetables in some places and it all depends on how the “infrastructure” is put together.

The details aren’t the point. The point is yet another weapon in the war on food. More regulation, more commercialization, less freedom, all in the name of “fighting climate change”.

And if you’re doubting that’s the agenda here, check out the sheer number of government research agencies which the “supported” the research project:

Support for the project was provided by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, French National Research Agency, U.S. National Science Foundation, Poland’s National Science Centre, and the European Union’s Horizon 202 research and innovation program.

It’s a fairly obvious case of needing a study to support a position, going out and and buying one.

This is one of those stories that exists simply to be a headline, so some pundit can quote it on some political panel on primetime TV and start a conversation about “regulation”.

Since we started with a prediction, let’s end with another one: This is just the first step, and you don’t have to be paying especially close attention to see where it goes from here.

They are never going to make growing your own vegetables illegal, they are just going to make it increasingly difficult.

It will start with licenses, for food safety purposes or something. Maybe an outbreak of a disease will be linked to people sharing food from their allotments.

Licenses will be increasingly expensive, and come with restrictions. You’ll only be allowed to use seeds from specific approved vendors, seeds of GMO plants which “mitigate the impact of climate change”. These seeds will likely be “terminator seeds”, meaning they are sterile in the second generation.

And, in that fashion, growing your own vegetables will no longer be an individual and independent experience, but just another corporate subscription service.

Growing your own vegetables is bad for the planet

I suddenly had a dreadful vision of a swarm of drones hovering over my garden this summer dropping propaganda flyers.

[xuenchen]

[Infolurker]

F'ing License to grow vegies.... crazy.

I would assume they would ban seeds or put a "carbon tax" of 10,000% on them.


AND, I think Soilent Green was OPTOMISTIC. 

The real plan involves converting industrial toxic waste into "Food".

[Michigan Swamp Buck]

The wording in that title interests me. Let's examine that.

"Carbon Footprint of Homegrown Food Five Times Greater Than Those Grown Conventionally."

Now, disregarding the obvious demonizing of home gardening as a climate threat, I believe that comparing "homegrown food" to "conventionally grown food" implies that homegrown food and home gardening is unconventional. Therefore conventionally grown food must be produced by large corporate farms using GM monoculture crops bathed in pesticides, herbicides, and ammonium nitrate fertilizer while organically grown heirloom varieties, in a sustainable, intensive home garden must be unconventional. Have a look at the definition.

unconventional

adjective

1. not conventional; not bound by or conforming to convention, rule, or precedent; free from conventionality:
   

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/unconventional


This definition distills down to "not . . . conforming to . . . rule, or precedent". I don't believe that growing food in a garden is unprecedented so that leaves "not conforming to rule" that can be stated as "disobeying the rule".  The definition also states "free from conventionality" in other words "free from the rules". I find that quite interesting, the implication is that home vegetable gardening is against the rules.

Homegrown sounds nice, but with unconventional, the connotation is negative IMO.

synonyms
bizarre, eccentric, idiosyncratic, offbeat, unorthodox, unusual, anarchistic, avant-garde, crazy, far-out, freakish, freaky, irregular, kooky, oddball, off the beaten track, off the wall, out in left field, out of the ordinary, uncustomary, way-out, weirdo.

Didn't the government endorse and promote "Victory Gardens" back during WWII? What kind of gardens is this study promoting, "Defeat Gardens"?

[kdog]

What are all these vegans going to do ? 

Is it still ok to grow bugs? 

I have questions.