I have to add another very big reason that the family farm has been replaced with big ag.
I've watched the small farms in my area, one of which is mine, come to an end because the children have absolutely no desire to be farmers.
The education system has a huge bias against the family farm in favor of sending those graduates to the city for more so-called "education" where the majority stay, taking decades to finally realize what they left behind.
That, and .... I'll say it...the laziness of many that dictates that they get a job that requires little effort to perform.
Famine. It's what's for dinner. If you do not prepare. Every ounce of preparation on your part will be worth a pound of survival. Get prepared or prepare to starve.
Our supply chain is an incredibly complex and incredibly fragile (fragility increases exponentially with complexity) global just-in-the-nick-of-time production and delivery system, and right now it is breaking down all across the world. In addition to the deliberate pandemic supply chain meltdown, food distribution and processing plants are also mysteriously burning down all across America. Meanwhile the bug food plants and tissue-cell factories are doing just fine.
Civilization - goes an old maxim - is only nine meals away from barbarism—Once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Try to envision the vast interlinking network of moving parts required to get those meals to 300 million Americans every day, and all of the things that must go right in order for that to network to function.
Something not mentioned is that our big biz food cos. have taken a page from I.T. and are firing U.S workers to replace them with foreign labor. And as border patrol raids have proven, those employers are not too concerned about the legal status of these imports. I have worked in a hospital loaded with immigrant labor from all over, including china, who demonstrated a disturbing ignorance of basic sanitation. Another case of insourcing which effects indigenous labor stats and threatens public health in one fell swoop
I grew up in Oklahoma farm/ranch country on a farm. Twenty two years ago I left professional life and returned, with my wife, to the small community where Yvonda and I grew up. We bought a local business in our small town and also went into the cattle business. Currently we run several hundred head of cattle. We have a base herd of 300 momma cows and develop heifers for breeding.
There are so many lies told about our cows it is difficult to keep up with them. The two biggest ones have to do with the amount of water they consume and the methane they produce. Cattle are actually very good for the environment when managed properly. This has been pointed out by Dr. Jim Gerrish and many others as well.
We are attempting to develop our Ranching program into something you might call sustainable. You can visit out web site to see what we are doing (northcanadianredangus.com). This is a much more complex task than you might imagine. Changing the type of cattle and how we manage the forage resource is time consuming and expensive. In our case there is no outside money, we have to keep our expenses and income in line to stay in business.
We have tried many things advocated by Joel Saladin, Kit pharo and others, with varying degrees of success. Before we went to an all cattle operation we attempted no-til farming. In 8 years we never raised one decent crop during that time. The effort had a seriously negative impact on our finances. This was part of the reason we move to an all cattle operation.
I have many neighbors who do conventional til and manage the cows the same way their grandfather did. I don’t think one size fits all. I also have two neighbors who have small feed yards. I see no problem with this. While I understand the attraction of “grass fed” for some people, ‘corn feed” also has some advantages.
Concentration in this business is a terrible problem just as it is in every area of business. We sell our own beef by the quarter or by the package through our store in town. It is a tuff go. Our banker tells us the market is saturated. What he is really saying is that not that many people are truly open to the farm to table idea. It is much more convenient to run to Walmart.
I am just attempting to point out that this is a very complex subject. It is expensive and time consuming. A lot of work needs to be done. I don’t think we should toss out the baby with the bath water. There is room for more than one kind of operation, and to move us in the direction of sustainability we will have to provide financial incentives so it is possible for farm/ranch families to do it.
Great write up, Doc. R. Makes me wonder a few things.
First off, in my 56 years on this planet, even in my youth, up until today, I personally have never ever had the desire of a loose pair of shoes, or a warm place to shit. I have no idea where that Butz dude is coming from, other than that's crazy talk, from a man from Crazy town DC.
(smile)
That Butz-head was a real wack-a-doodle, eh ?
And secondly,
I wonder what ever happened to the USDA's blatant attack on the small Amish farmer in PA who was selling to his own "Private club members", when they nearly jailed him, shutting him down, permanently, just for being a small, independent farmer trying to make a living. He obviously wasn't harming anyone, as I never read about one single episode of any of his product sickening anyone.
I guess the public outrage reduced the farmers death sentence in public square, to a huge fine of tens of thousands of dollars for not following the USDA poisoning guidelines for preparation of meats, prior to sale. I guess I need to search for a follow up on that one.
Well, another day living the dream, to begin.
Toodles, Doc. R. Say Hi to Dr. Jill from the knuckleheads North of ya.
Aug 26, 2023·edited Aug 26, 2023Liked by Robert W Malone MD, MS
OK, this is going to be long, as this is something that I am passionate about. When I was in the fifth class, I had to write a book about what I wanted to be when I grew up, and the title was "I want to be a Farmer with Old John Deere Tractors."
Why Samuel Kriebel? Well, that Farm has been in the family since 1734 or so. It was bought from one of the land agents from William Penn. Towamencin Township was being developed, and this farm was one of the last hold outs. He applied for "clean and green" tax status, as a Farm. He was denied. Crikey, the taxes were over 25,000 dollars a year in 1990. He tried to have it declared a Historical property, also denied. Eventually, he ended up selling half of the farm to Teva Pharmaceuticals. Towamencin Township did major Road reconstruction, at taxpayer's expense to accommodate the project.
Reverend Dr. Mom, as one of the first women ministers in the USA, along with Papa Kriebs, became the joint pastors of Palm Schwenkfelder Church in Palm. Papa Kriebs went back to teaching industrial arts, but I digress. The population in the area was dominated by agriculture. That would be from the time before I was born until 1980 or so, we moved from one end of the "Valley," to the other one to a small Farmstead built in 1711, the "Jesse Zepp Farm." How is this relevant?
When Reverend Dr. Mom was called to be the first woman Bishop at the Pennsylvania South East Conference of the U.C.C Church, the orientation was to Collegeville, Pennsylvania. This was in 1972. Again, this area was dominated by family farms, and cows outnumbered the residents, not counting the College students. The hub of activity was the local AGWAY. Jep, I even joined the Grange, and learned how to caponise male chickens.
What started to happen was the wave of development. As Papa Kriebs aptly said, "Plastic people, plastic houses." Sure enough, it happened. Just about almost all the family farms started dropping like dominoes. The only one still left is the Wismer Farm, if you can still call it a farm. I spent my summers there baling hay, well, not baling hay, but stacking it in the wagon as they were thrown from the baler.
Then the Pharmaceutical companies came in to "buy" (Lease) the cheap land and build their offices.
When I go back to visit, I cannot recognise anything. All the farms are gone, and from Collegeville, through Limerick, there are nothing but strip malls and shopping centres.
I have lived in Kürten, Germany since 2005, Do a Google Maps search, it is a very agricultural area, just like where I grew up in PA, and we have cows for neighbours.
Once upon a time, I went through the whole process of getting the small farm in PA certified as an organic farm. Bees, Chickens, Strawberries, Sweet Corn, Rhubarb, Asparagus, Currents, Blue berries, Gooseberries and my concept of "Gourmet Hay." Papa Kriebs was not in agreement, (It was his farm after all), His argument that the farm was only something "for sustenance." Grudgingly, in retrospect, I have to agree. However, with the way things are going, that might not be a bad thing. I lost all of what I saved for retirement in 2008 when Lehman Brothers was deemed "not big enough to fail."
Sometimes "sustenance" is not a bad idea.
Thank you for your patience. It was important for me to share this.
My father, a WWII veteran, attempted to grow a registered Angus herd in the 1960's but hit a down market and reverted to Herefords. One of his favorite sayings was "if you want something to get messed up, just get the federal government involved." My youngest brother and I are exploring ways to keep our Virginia farm in the family, a legacy since 1812. This essay was intriguing and stirred my soul. There has to be a way.
Thank you for addressing this very important topic. Wresting agriculture away from Big Gov is one of the most important things we need to accomplish if we are going to survive as a free nation. I don't think this subject is as embedded in the general population's consciousness as much as it needs to be, particularly with Big Gov infiltrating every aspect of our lives with an ever-increasing speed.
What a great wakeup essay! Back to 2x/day cat n deer frens visits for 8 days , so late here. This goes well beyond its topic! Really excellant explanation of the modRNA, nanoparticle et al composition. Appreciated!
As for local sources for foods in general and meat in particular -definitely. My mare spent her youth in a feeder cattle covered lot. That was better than a lot of what feeder cattle likely endure today. My uncle's feeder cattle were kept in a field.
As for slaughter facilities, not sure what we have here. During deer hunting season they donate some of their kill to feeding the needy, so one assumes there maybe something local available.
Will check our local farmers market next Weds and see what's available.
My thought is that it would be helpful to both the farmers and local customers to have a better idea what's available, where, the process and why they might (should) prefer it. If there is any such, beyond notice of farmer markets 1x/wk and a label on a couple tables of local fruits and veggies in my local grocery store, I'm not aware of much.
Hope you folks are enjoying another beautiful day in paradise! You've more than earned it! With much caring! Bestest Always♡♡♡
The autocratic forces have tentacles running deep into our established paradigm.
The more enlightened we become, the better we can prepare ourselves for survival and mitigate this totalitarian sprawl.
Thank you, again, for all of your efforts to expose the mechanisms underlying this horrific Orwellian Apparatus.
I have to add another very big reason that the family farm has been replaced with big ag.
I've watched the small farms in my area, one of which is mine, come to an end because the children have absolutely no desire to be farmers.
The education system has a huge bias against the family farm in favor of sending those graduates to the city for more so-called "education" where the majority stay, taking decades to finally realize what they left behind.
That, and .... I'll say it...the laziness of many that dictates that they get a job that requires little effort to perform.
It isn't just the USDA.
It's our education system as well.
Famine. It's what's for dinner. If you do not prepare. Every ounce of preparation on your part will be worth a pound of survival. Get prepared or prepare to starve.
Our supply chain is an incredibly complex and incredibly fragile (fragility increases exponentially with complexity) global just-in-the-nick-of-time production and delivery system, and right now it is breaking down all across the world. In addition to the deliberate pandemic supply chain meltdown, food distribution and processing plants are also mysteriously burning down all across America. Meanwhile the bug food plants and tissue-cell factories are doing just fine.
Civilization - goes an old maxim - is only nine meals away from barbarism—Once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Try to envision the vast interlinking network of moving parts required to get those meals to 300 million Americans every day, and all of the things that must go right in order for that to network to function.
Excerpt from https://tritorch.com/famine
Something not mentioned is that our big biz food cos. have taken a page from I.T. and are firing U.S workers to replace them with foreign labor. And as border patrol raids have proven, those employers are not too concerned about the legal status of these imports. I have worked in a hospital loaded with immigrant labor from all over, including china, who demonstrated a disturbing ignorance of basic sanitation. Another case of insourcing which effects indigenous labor stats and threatens public health in one fell swoop
Stay local in your food purchases and support the food chain that actually cares about you.
In the WEF links the language that they use is at about the second grade level. Which nowadays is about high school graduate level.
I grew up in Oklahoma farm/ranch country on a farm. Twenty two years ago I left professional life and returned, with my wife, to the small community where Yvonda and I grew up. We bought a local business in our small town and also went into the cattle business. Currently we run several hundred head of cattle. We have a base herd of 300 momma cows and develop heifers for breeding.
There are so many lies told about our cows it is difficult to keep up with them. The two biggest ones have to do with the amount of water they consume and the methane they produce. Cattle are actually very good for the environment when managed properly. This has been pointed out by Dr. Jim Gerrish and many others as well.
We are attempting to develop our Ranching program into something you might call sustainable. You can visit out web site to see what we are doing (northcanadianredangus.com). This is a much more complex task than you might imagine. Changing the type of cattle and how we manage the forage resource is time consuming and expensive. In our case there is no outside money, we have to keep our expenses and income in line to stay in business.
We have tried many things advocated by Joel Saladin, Kit pharo and others, with varying degrees of success. Before we went to an all cattle operation we attempted no-til farming. In 8 years we never raised one decent crop during that time. The effort had a seriously negative impact on our finances. This was part of the reason we move to an all cattle operation.
I have many neighbors who do conventional til and manage the cows the same way their grandfather did. I don’t think one size fits all. I also have two neighbors who have small feed yards. I see no problem with this. While I understand the attraction of “grass fed” for some people, ‘corn feed” also has some advantages.
Concentration in this business is a terrible problem just as it is in every area of business. We sell our own beef by the quarter or by the package through our store in town. It is a tuff go. Our banker tells us the market is saturated. What he is really saying is that not that many people are truly open to the farm to table idea. It is much more convenient to run to Walmart.
I am just attempting to point out that this is a very complex subject. It is expensive and time consuming. A lot of work needs to be done. I don’t think we should toss out the baby with the bath water. There is room for more than one kind of operation, and to move us in the direction of sustainability we will have to provide financial incentives so it is possible for farm/ranch families to do it.
Great write up, Doc. R. Makes me wonder a few things.
First off, in my 56 years on this planet, even in my youth, up until today, I personally have never ever had the desire of a loose pair of shoes, or a warm place to shit. I have no idea where that Butz dude is coming from, other than that's crazy talk, from a man from Crazy town DC.
(smile)
That Butz-head was a real wack-a-doodle, eh ?
And secondly,
I wonder what ever happened to the USDA's blatant attack on the small Amish farmer in PA who was selling to his own "Private club members", when they nearly jailed him, shutting him down, permanently, just for being a small, independent farmer trying to make a living. He obviously wasn't harming anyone, as I never read about one single episode of any of his product sickening anyone.
I guess the public outrage reduced the farmers death sentence in public square, to a huge fine of tens of thousands of dollars for not following the USDA poisoning guidelines for preparation of meats, prior to sale. I guess I need to search for a follow up on that one.
Well, another day living the dream, to begin.
Toodles, Doc. R. Say Hi to Dr. Jill from the knuckleheads North of ya.
T.
OK, this is going to be long, as this is something that I am passionate about. When I was in the fifth class, I had to write a book about what I wanted to be when I grew up, and the title was "I want to be a Farmer with Old John Deere Tractors."
My last name is Kriebel. I am from South Eastern Pennsylvania, and I am a "born Schwenkfelder ". If you are so inclined, you can do a search on Samuel Kriebel, (OK, here is a Facebook link, I was tired of trying to find the old one. https://www.facebook.com/100041817644630/posts/pfbid0v6JSjkvosChKerchDEfswRBanAg71MN3mD9RzchGB2SDRzaLQWvEvdqV3avKuzcVl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6)
Why Samuel Kriebel? Well, that Farm has been in the family since 1734 or so. It was bought from one of the land agents from William Penn. Towamencin Township was being developed, and this farm was one of the last hold outs. He applied for "clean and green" tax status, as a Farm. He was denied. Crikey, the taxes were over 25,000 dollars a year in 1990. He tried to have it declared a Historical property, also denied. Eventually, he ended up selling half of the farm to Teva Pharmaceuticals. Towamencin Township did major Road reconstruction, at taxpayer's expense to accommodate the project.
Here is a you-tube video of the death of another Kriebel Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA_zjqEkpOY
Reverend Dr. Mom, as one of the first women ministers in the USA, along with Papa Kriebs, became the joint pastors of Palm Schwenkfelder Church in Palm. Papa Kriebs went back to teaching industrial arts, but I digress. The population in the area was dominated by agriculture. That would be from the time before I was born until 1980 or so, we moved from one end of the "Valley," to the other one to a small Farmstead built in 1711, the "Jesse Zepp Farm." How is this relevant?
When Reverend Dr. Mom was called to be the first woman Bishop at the Pennsylvania South East Conference of the U.C.C Church, the orientation was to Collegeville, Pennsylvania. This was in 1972. Again, this area was dominated by family farms, and cows outnumbered the residents, not counting the College students. The hub of activity was the local AGWAY. Jep, I even joined the Grange, and learned how to caponise male chickens.
What started to happen was the wave of development. As Papa Kriebs aptly said, "Plastic people, plastic houses." Sure enough, it happened. Just about almost all the family farms started dropping like dominoes. The only one still left is the Wismer Farm, if you can still call it a farm. I spent my summers there baling hay, well, not baling hay, but stacking it in the wagon as they were thrown from the baler.
Then the Pharmaceutical companies came in to "buy" (Lease) the cheap land and build their offices.
When I go back to visit, I cannot recognise anything. All the farms are gone, and from Collegeville, through Limerick, there are nothing but strip malls and shopping centres.
I have lived in Kürten, Germany since 2005, Do a Google Maps search, it is a very agricultural area, just like where I grew up in PA, and we have cows for neighbours.
Once upon a time, I went through the whole process of getting the small farm in PA certified as an organic farm. Bees, Chickens, Strawberries, Sweet Corn, Rhubarb, Asparagus, Currents, Blue berries, Gooseberries and my concept of "Gourmet Hay." Papa Kriebs was not in agreement, (It was his farm after all), His argument that the farm was only something "for sustenance." Grudgingly, in retrospect, I have to agree. However, with the way things are going, that might not be a bad thing. I lost all of what I saved for retirement in 2008 when Lehman Brothers was deemed "not big enough to fail."
Sometimes "sustenance" is not a bad idea.
Thank you for your patience. It was important for me to share this.
My father, a WWII veteran, attempted to grow a registered Angus herd in the 1960's but hit a down market and reverted to Herefords. One of his favorite sayings was "if you want something to get messed up, just get the federal government involved." My youngest brother and I are exploring ways to keep our Virginia farm in the family, a legacy since 1812. This essay was intriguing and stirred my soul. There has to be a way.
Excellent piece here Dr. Malone. I can’t thank you enough for shining the light into areas meant to remain in the dark.
Thank you for addressing this very important topic. Wresting agriculture away from Big Gov is one of the most important things we need to accomplish if we are going to survive as a free nation. I don't think this subject is as embedded in the general population's consciousness as much as it needs to be, particularly with Big Gov infiltrating every aspect of our lives with an ever-increasing speed.
A few months ago I drove out to a local farm and bought a quarter cow. Pasture raised. Have been very happy with this decision.
If you can make money off of human suffering the current “Democrat” American government is all for it...
What a great wakeup essay! Back to 2x/day cat n deer frens visits for 8 days , so late here. This goes well beyond its topic! Really excellant explanation of the modRNA, nanoparticle et al composition. Appreciated!
As for local sources for foods in general and meat in particular -definitely. My mare spent her youth in a feeder cattle covered lot. That was better than a lot of what feeder cattle likely endure today. My uncle's feeder cattle were kept in a field.
As for slaughter facilities, not sure what we have here. During deer hunting season they donate some of their kill to feeding the needy, so one assumes there maybe something local available.
Will check our local farmers market next Weds and see what's available.
My thought is that it would be helpful to both the farmers and local customers to have a better idea what's available, where, the process and why they might (should) prefer it. If there is any such, beyond notice of farmer markets 1x/wk and a label on a couple tables of local fruits and veggies in my local grocery store, I'm not aware of much.
Hope you folks are enjoying another beautiful day in paradise! You've more than earned it! With much caring! Bestest Always♡♡♡
Local farmers are being raided, shut down and fined by the USDA. The Amish for now, but anyone could be a target. https://www.fulcrum7.com/news/2022/8/23/armed-federal-agents-attack-amish-farmer-in-pa-for-selling-food-without-preservatives