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America grows 70% of its winter lettuce in Yuma, Arizona. A desert. 3 inches of annual rainfall.
It takes 39 gallons of water to produce a single head of iceberg lettuce. That water comes from the Colorado River. The same river whose reservoir levels dropped to 27% capacity in 2022, triggering the first federal water shortage declaration in US history.
Iceberg lettuce is 96% water. It has negligible nutritional value. It travels an average of 2,400 miles to reach a plate on the East Coast. It arrives in a single-use plastic bag. It wilts in two weeks.
The entire proposition, grow near-valueless water-filled filler in a desert, using water from a dying river, wrap it in plastic, truck it across a continent, exists because Americans want something crunchy under their ranch dressing in January.
But it's plant-based, so it represents responsible food choices.
🚨 Un boulanger français, les yeux pleins de larmes, annonce la fermeture définitive de sa boulangerie.
La raison ? Des normes européennes implacables. Ses outils en bois, ceux qui ont fait la réputation de son pain depuis des années, sont soudain déclarés « non conformes ». Il a six semaines pour tout remplacer. Passé ce délai, amendes colossales et poursuites judiciaires.
Sa boutique affiche complet tous les jours. Les clients font la queue dès l’aube. Pourtant, il n’a pas un euro pour financer ces travaux imposés. Plutôt que de s’endetter à vie, il baisse le rideau. Demain, cet artisan se retrouvera au RSA. Sa fille, qui travaillait à ses côtés, sera au chômage. Une vague de solidarité se lève déjà pour les soutenir.
C’est ainsi que l’on traite nos boulangers en France ? Des hommes et des femmes qui se lèvent à 3 heures du matin pour nourrir tout un quartier, sacrifiés sur l’autel de règlements venus de Bruxelles.
Partagez massivement. Cette histoire ne doit pas rester isolée. Nos artisans sont en train de disparaître un à un.
Russia has been cut off from CNN, CBS, ABC, Pornhub, Facebook...
The US is working to deprive Russians of McDonald's, Coca-Cola and US fastfood.
If they continue with these sanctions, the Russian people will probably be the healthiest, well-adjusted, spiritual and well-informed people on the planet.
U.S. Congress is silent because it has built the largest racket empire on Earth: NGOs.
This is:
U.S. Representative @timburchett and House DOGE Committee Chairman drops a bomb.
Where did all your tax dollars go?
“It goes from the American taxpayer’s back pocket to the back pockets of politicians in Washington, D.C. And if it’s either party, I don’t care—they need to be exposed, and they need to be out of office.”
📝 The name speaks for itself: “non-governmental organizations” in D.C. means one racket owns another.
The Federal Reserve CONFIRMS that U.S. NGOs have more in assets than the combined 2025 GDP estimates for Japan, Germany, and India — the combined assets held by U.S. NGOs equal $14.2 trillion of your tax money.
Here's a farming practice you haven't been told about.
In North America and the UK, 80% of commercial oat crops are sprayed with glyphosate two to three weeks before harvest. Not to kill weeds. Not for pest control. To kill the oat plant itself.
When you spray a standing crop with herbicide, the plant dies uniformly. This is called desiccation. It means the entire field ripens simultaneously, which makes mechanical harvesting more efficient and profitable. The dying plant pulls all remaining moisture into the grain. Yields increase. Scheduling becomes predictable.
The consequence is that the grain is harvested shortly after being drenched in herbicide. The glyphosate residues are baked in.
The Environmental Working Group tested 61 oat-based products in 2019. Every single oat-based baby food tested contained detectable glyphosate. The majority of conventional products exceeded their benchmark for children's health.
The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen in 2015. Bayer, who bought Monsanto, has paid out $11 billion in legal settlements to farmers and consumers who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after exposure.
Your oat milk latte is pre-sprayed with a probable carcinogen to make harvesting 15% more cost-efficient.
The barista made a lovely leaf in it though.
Could the United States feed the United States without glyphosate?
Short answer: obviously yes
The main problem with our food system is that it’s being run out of Washington.
That’s why we have vast swaths of farmland doing stupid things that make no sense except to bureaucrats in D.C. — maxing out soybean exports, subsidizing domestic sugar production, growing the majority of corn for ethanol (something that’s bad for cars but good for the egos of D.C. politicos), etc.
We got to this point through the usual way: the cost of business ia slowly driven up, via regulations & the rest of it, until most farmers can only afford to sell out to Tyson, etc. Then lobbyists convince lawmakers monocropping & pesticides are the only way to affordably feed Americans, and laws are enacted exempting manufacturers from liability, only quickening these trends.
In the past 8 years, we’ve lost up to 170,000 farms — 1 in 15. Meanwhile, only 10 percent of U.S. corn feeds humans; the rest feeds animals or cars. On the other side of the equation, 85 percent of farmers have to work off-farm. Yet 80 percent of the Farm Bill is SNAP. It’s like a self perpetuating cyclone of bad decision making & worse consequences.
As long as things are being run out of bureaucracies, we could at least do so through the prism of enabling local communities to feed local communities.
Easy layups:
— SNAP benefits double for whole foods, and/or can only be redeemed for foods with less than ~5 ingredients.
— Farmers get low-interest loans
— No more subsidies for monocropping
— USDA lets farmers slaughter their own meat
— Monsanto-style liability indemnity is removed so everyone’s competing on a level playing field
People here probably already know about Joel Salatin and his Virginia-based regenerative/permaculture farm, Polyface, as it appeared Michael Pollen’s popular documentary, The Onnivore’s Dilemma.
Salatin & other regenerative farmers have written dozens of books showing how farms that replicate patterns we find in nature — herbivores graze before chickens scavenge, before the land transitions from pasture to agriculture te animals again, all of which increases the fertility of the land year after year.
Salatin: “Plants and animals should be provided a habitat that allows them to express their physiological distinctiveness. Respecting and honouring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health."
Practicing farming as God intended wouldn’t only be good for the planet, but could also expand supply.
Market summaries report that diversified regenerative farms can match or exceed conventional yields and even increase total productivity over time — with one dataset claiming regenerative systems can yield ~78% more food per acre total calories when considering diversified outputs, not just one crop.
Polyface Farm, at just ~500 acres, supplies thousands of local families and dozens of restaurants — prioritizing multiple outputs per acre (meat, eggs, vegetables, grass-fed products) instead of a single commodity yield.
And studies have found nearly 30 million acres of U.S. cropland that have been abandoned since the 1980s.
See, one China trawler can strip more fish in weeks than local fleets catch in months
Now picture 10,000 of them, nonstop, year-round, ignoring recovery cycles and crowding waters near places like the Galápagos Islands
This is eco-terrorism. And we’re still too quiet about it
Welfare State explained for people who actually work for a living.
The system is working. Just not for you.
You wake up before your kids do. You drive an hour to a job that barely covers the bills. You eat lunch at your desk. You miss the school play. You come home tired, check your paycheck, and half of it's gone before you touch it.
Now picture your neighbor.
She hasn't worked in three years. Her kids are in free childcare. Her rent is paid by the state. Her groceries are covered. Her healthcare is free. She takes home more than you do.
Not because she's cheating the system. Because the system told her to.
Her caseworker ran the numbers on an $18/hour job offer. Taking it would lose her food assistance, childcare, cash benefits, healthcare. All in, that job would leave her $27,000 poorer per year than staying home.
She didn't take it. You'd have done the same.
Now picture your buddy and his girlfriend. Together six years. Two kids. They want to get married. But the government charges them $20,200 a year to be a legal family. So on paper, they aren't one.
Now picture your uncle. Bad back but functional. He can work. But disability pays $28,000 plus free healthcare. Working part-time pays $22,000 with nothing. Over 1,400 law firms exist solely to help people make that switch. Less than 1% ever come back to work.
These aren't lazy people. They're doing basic math.
And the math is everywhere.
There are over 80 federal welfare programs in this country. Not 5. Not 10. Over 80. That's before you touch the states. California adds 23 more. New York adds 24.
A family of four on maximum federal benefits takes home $90,000 a year. Tax free. Without working.
You know what the median family that actually works makes? $80,000. Before taxes.
Read that again. The family on welfare takes home more than the family going to work every day. And the working family is paying for it.
In California, a family of four can pull $114,000 a year in combined benefits. In New York City, $118,000. The city will pay $4,100 a month for your apartment alone. That's a doorman building.
It doesn't stop at the border.
In the UK, a jobless family with three kids takes home £46,000 in benefits. A family with both parents working full-time on minimum wage? £28,000. You'd need to earn £71,000 to match what the non-working family gets for free. And in November 2025, the UK removed its child benefit cap entirely. Every additional child now unlocks more money. No limit.
Now here's the part that should make you set your phone down.
There's a nurse in Sacramento. She makes $85,000. Works nights. Takes home $61,000 after taxes. No childcare help. No food assistance. No housing voucher. Makes too much for any of it. She is funding a system that pays other people more than she takes home. And her only return on investment is the bill.
Maybe that nurse is your wife. Maybe that family making $65,000 with two jobs and no help is yours. You were told to go to school, get a job, work hard, play by the rules. And for that you get to fund a system that pays people more than you make.
$1.2 trillion a year. $3,600 from every working American. Fifty years. Same poverty rate as 1973.
We didn't build a safety net. We built a gateway drug. You get on one program, that qualifies you for three more, those qualify you for five more. Before long you're enrolled in fifteen programs and any attempt to earn more costs you thousands in lost benefits.
The system doesn't help you climb out. It makes climbing out expensive.
And if you dare question any of it, you're "heartless." You "hate poor people." You "want children to starve."
No. I want a system that helps people get back on their feet. Not one that pays them to stay down.
When you can stack 80 programs to clear six figures without working, you don't have a safety net. You have a country addicted to dependence.
Every bureaucrat needs the poverty to justify their job. Every politician needs the dependency to justify their vote. Every program needs more funding to justify its existence.
They don't want to solve poverty. A solved problem doesn't need a budget.
You paid for it. You're still paying for it.
And the people running it are going to ask you to pay more.
My wife & I went to dinner last night.
I could tell right away our waitress was new & nervous.
I got my entree & it wasn't what I ordered.
I never got the soup I ordered.
My wife's drink showed up after dinner.
I didn't send the food back, complain about not getting soup, or whine about my wife's drink.
I said to my wife my hearts so full of gratitude to be at a dinner with you (who I love so much after 12 years) while our kids are at their grandparents that love them so much -- I just can't complain about anything.
If the worst thing that happens today is I ate chicken Alfredo instead of Mediterranean chicken & saved calories not getting soup..... I live an extremely blessed life.
Years ago, I would have been angry about this.
I would have GIVEN AWAY MY POWER & allowed it to ruin the night.
Instead, I said to my wife (taking extreme ownership) it's my bad I'll point to my item next time & ensure we have it right.
We tipped well & left.
Gratitude is a CHOICE.
Being KIND is a CHOICE.
Being peaceful is a CHOICE.
I'm at a place in my life I can't fathom letting minor inconvenience destroy my peace.
I recommend you get to this place too.
1) Lots of internal work.
2) Lots of gratitude.
3) Lots of Jesus.
Is my formula.
Life's pretty good here.
Go have a blessed day & don't allow minor inconveniences to derail your peace & joy!