Big Green Has Eco Targets For Culling Cattle — Are You OK With That?

The ‘eat the bugs’ people are at it again. The model of left wing activism they draw from always seems to follow the same pattern.

Let’s quickly review the pattern so we can better understand the latest version of it.

First: an outlandish plan (like the green new deal, or restrictions on gas stoves) is officially rejected by people in power. (Remember: the senate voted AGAINST AOC’s Green New Deal)

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Pushback from the right is dismissed by politicians and mocked in the press. Assurances are given that such radical ideas will never go forward.

Finally: activists find some kind of back door to enforce the very same plan we were told wasn’t coming. (Inflation reduction act was really a smokescreen to implement much of the Green New Deal. Zoning laws on gas hookups and manufacturing regulations on gas stoves are nibbling away at gas stoves despite what we were told in January.)

Irish dairy farmers were alarmed in a story earlier this week.

Any plan to cull Ireland’s dairy herd must be voluntary, the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association has warned.
[…]
Up to 65,000 dairy cows a year could be culled as the Government moves to bring the agriculture sector in line with climate targets, according to a report by the Irish Independent. — IrishTimes

Now, headlines in Irish newspapers are calling for the culling of 200,000 head of cattle so that Ireland can hit eco-targets. But notice how this framing looks awfully similar to that second step in the process:

Oh, it’s ‘just a modelling document’. Nothing to be concerned about.

Aren’t you relieved that there are no green authoritarians with big plans to micromanage the lives of ordinary people?

“A lot of people have no clue that agriculture contributes about 33 percent of all the emissions of the world,” Kerry said, “depending a little bit on how you count it, but it’s anywhere from 26 to 33. And we can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution. So all of us understand here. The depths of this mission.”
First they came for fossil fuels and the energy sector, now they are coming for our sustenance. “The largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions is agriculture, responsible for around one quarter of emissions, closely followed by the energy sector, which includes emissions from coal, oil, natural gas and biofuels,” the IEA states.
Reductions in fertlizer, land use, and cows are a big push by the activists who seek to reduce emissions created by food production. One idea that has been put forth to reduce methane emissions caused by cows is to shift to eating bugs, instead. Another idea is to feed cows bugs to reduce fertilizer emissions generated by growing food for cows. — PostMillenial

Isn’t it weird that Kerry is talking about agriculture. It’s the very same thing that Ireland is — which happens to be the same issue at the heart of those Dutch farmer’s protests.

Kerry has made another pivot. He’s not calling it ‘climate change’ anymore. He’s calling it ‘climate crisis’.

It’s more emotionally evocative. And the last three years have proven that big government can convince people to ignore a LOT of their rights (and those of others) so long as it’s done for a sufficiently noble cause.

Of course, if any of these cow-killers were genuinely interested in solving a ‘crisis’ in carbon production, they would be looking to farmers as a solution to their problem, not a cause of it.

— FoodRevolution