Food Deprivation For Thee, Not For Me
Elites think most of us should be eliminated to make room. For them.
In what seems like a geologic eon ago, in 1974, there occurred at Rome the world’s first international food conference. It was sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, with headquarters in that city and was created ostensibly to address problems of hunger in poorer countries around the world.
I was there at the time, directing a film documentary about that event which, if it did nothing else, it made plain to my mind the genetic inability of high government bureaucrats do do anything to solve actual problems.
Day after day, hundreds of representatives from the nations of the world sat in a big auditorium and dozed through speech after speech by advocates of feeding the hungry while images of starving children appeared on a big screen up in front. It was horrifying but not sufficiently horrifying to keep the attendees awake or from enjoying lunches of foie gras, beef wellington, oysters and fine French and Italian wines among a vast spread of expensive worldly delectibles.
The people who were starving in Yemen, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Pakistan, North Korea and elsewhere were not at the conference and so they were not able to rise before the assembled dignitaries and plead their cases directly.
No, their role was to stand by in silent impotency while powerful leaders of their countries (who were not at the conference) emptied boatloads of cash intended for the relief of their hungry people into their personal Swiss bank accounts, in order to afford Rolex watches and Mercedes convertibles and the finest Kobe beef steaks and pedigreed cognac and ski vacations at Gstaad as well as helicopters and tanks and machine guns to keep the hungry multitudes at bay and to secure their palatial homes and perquisites. Call it foreign aid, if you will.
But sending large supplies of food in the form of wheat, rice, canned meat and dried vegetables wouldn’t work, as most of that kind of stuff was purloined straight off the docks by relatives of the dictator to be sold for personal enrichment to people who could buy it, not the poor to whom it was addressed free of charge.
It became possible at that esteemed conference to sense that its real purpose was to relieve the guilt of high-placed people in government in well-to-do countries by sending the “aid” anyway while doing a lot of hand-wringing and speechifying and proposal making.
Ten years before that conference a smart guy named Norman Borlaug came up with a way to greatly increase crop yields of wheat, so much so that the results became known as “The Green Revolution”.
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Borlaug was an humble, Iowa farmer and also a genius agronomist who saw the need to develop shorter standing wheat plants with bigger seed heads which could withstand devastation by winds and also produce more edible wheat. And then he went farther and devised by gene-splicing, strains which had the ability to survive wheat rust, long a major problem for growers.
Suddenly, millions of people could survive and, in fact, were surviving. This captured the attention of intellectuals who began to have visions of unsustainable population growth. Their reasoning was that if you make it possible for all these people who otherwise would die of starvation to actually not die then we’re going to run out of everything because they’ll consume it all.
One of these doomsayers was Dr. Paul Erlich, of Stanford University whose book, “The Population Bomb” stirred up a controversy by insisting that if we don’t severely limit the number of humans on the planet, by force if necessary, then we are all going to die of starvation. Soon! As in maybe ten years!
One of Erlich’s recommended solutions was to just let all of India starve to death. Intellectuals typically seem to have the just-right approach to thorny problems, this being but one.
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One of these prophets of the End of The World was Lester Brown, whom I interviewed on camera at the food conference. Brown was convinced that our only hope for survival would be trading fossil fuels for solar power. Brown was a farmer and ecologist who believed sea levels would rise 23 feet before the end on the 20th Century!
Twenty-three feet!
But before Brown got committed to global warming he was an enthusiast for global cooling. He spoke to me on camera about how the earth is now in the process of rapidly cooling and could descend into a deadly ice age before we knew what hit us.
“The earth’s albedo is increasing,” he explained, (albedo means reflecting), “due to circumpolar air masses pulling cloud cover up all around the world. This means that less of the sun’s heat is able to reach the surface to warm it but is simply bounced back into space.” Colder summers mean fewer crops and that means we starve and so on.
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The food conference didn’t address the inability of people to limit the number of children they bring into the world. It is sad almost beyond belief that people in the poorer countries tend to have more babies than they or their so-called governments can possibly feed pr care for. Billions of souls around the world face the horror of not being able to survive for lack of food.
But we have conferences!
Sooner or later you knew this would come up:
Rather than reduce world human population by forced sterilization or creating famines or producing deadly gain-of-function viruses, why not just produce all the nutrition the world needs by feeding people insects?
This idea was cooked up, so to speak, by the World Economic Forum, a think tank in Geneva, created by German engineer, Klaus Schwab, who organizes a meeting each year at Davos, attended more or less by the same important intellectuals who pigged out on filet mignon at the World Food Conference.
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Here’s what that organization wants us to know:
“Insects are a credible and efficient protein source requiring fewer resources than conventional breeding. For the same amount of protein produced, insects, mealworms in particular, require much less land than other sources of animal proteins. A study on crickets suggests they are twice as efficient in converting feed to meat as chicken, at least four times more efficient than pigs and 12 times more efficient than cattle.Now we need to overcome the last major barriers: preconceived ideas about insects as a source of food and legislation with regard to the use and consumption of proteins derived from insects. The ban on the use of insect as a source of protein has begun to evolve in Europe.”
Note that word “legislation”! Remember that “by force if necessary” is not idle chatter.
But consider … now that we have global warming there’s really no need to fear that Earth’s going to freeze. And the really good news is that old Klaus and the boys will be back in Davos in no time figuring out what the rest of us have to do.