🇩🇪🚜Regarding the German #Bauernprotest (farmers' protests), I have a slightly different opinion than many in my circle. There are several prominent accounts that uncritically exploit the protests in Germany, linking them to Agenda 2030 without understanding what it's really about. The reasons are as follows:
▪️ Monocultural farming almost always requires pesticides such as Round-Up to achieve a desired yield to break even. These pesticides lead to cancer, bee and insect death, and literally kill soil life.
▪️ Nitrates in groundwater are unhealthy, which is a fact. However, integrating cattle farming with plants that require high amounts of nitrogen can effectively address this issue.
▪️ Excess fertilization with nitrates and phosphates can lead to eutrophication (algal blooms and low oxygen) of nearby lakes and streams, severely impacting aquatic ecosystems.
▪️ Monocultural crops are usually not nutritious. The same applies to red and white meat from animals primarily fed with corn and soy. It's true that without farmers, there is no food, but the current practices of most protesting farmers in Germany lead to food that you would not want to put into your body.
In summary: Monocultural, industrial farming aligns with Agenda 2030. Companies like Bayer and Monsanto are to agriculture what Pfizer and Moderna are to medicine. Healthy and sustainable (I dislike the word, but it fits here) food comes from quasi-closed and permacultural systems, where the waste stream of one system becomes the input for another. It's a fact that one can harvest more food on one hectare of land used for permaculture than in industrial agriculture, while:
▪️ Counteracting insect death
▪️ Improving soil life and thus harvest
▪️ Producing meat with a high omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acid ratio (healthy!)
▪️ Avoiding pesticides, antibiotics, and fungicides
▪️ Producing highly nutritional vegetables and crops without the need for external fertilizers
I am sure that among the protesting farmers, there are some who follow this approach; but the question that should be asked is: What can we do to encourage farmers to turn away from Monsanto and Co and produce healthy food for us that improves our lives instead of diminishing them?
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"For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900…
Then on your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday.
22 million people perish in that war, including many of your friends who volunteered to defend freedom in Europe.
Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million.
On your 29th birthday, the Great Depression begins. Unemployment hits 25%, the World GDP drops 27%. That runs until you are 38.
The country nearly collapsed along with the world economy. If you were lucky, you had a job that paid $300 a year, a dollar a day.
When you turn 39, World War II starts. You aren't even over the hill yet, but don't try to catch your breath.
If you lived in London, England, or most of continental Europe, bombing of your neighborhood, or invasion of your country by foreign soldiers along with their tank and artillery was a daily event.
Between your 39th and 45th birthday, 75 million people perish in the war. At 50, the Korean War starts. 5 million perish.
At 55, the Vietnam War begins and doesn't end for 20 years. Millions of people perish in that conflict. On your 62nd birthday, there is the Cuban Missile Crisis, a tipping point in the Cold War. Life on our planet, as we know it, could have ended. Sensible leaders prevented that from happening.
In 2020, we have the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have died; it feels pretty dangerous; and it is.
Now think of everyone on the planet born in 1900. How do you think they survived all of the above?
When you were a kid in 1965, you didn't think your 65-year-old grandparents understood how hard school was, and how mean that kid in your class was. Yet they survived through everything listed above.
Perspective is an amazing art. Refined as time goes on, and very enlightening. So, let's try and keep things in perspective.
Let's be smart, we are all in this together. Let's help each other out, and we will get through all of this.”
- Author Unknown