{"id":39297,"date":"2018-10-17T09:58:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39297"},"modified":"2018-10-17T09:58:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:58:53","slug":"threats-to-family-farms-homesteading-from-agri-business-and-groupthink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39297","title":{"rendered":"Threats to Family Farms &#038; Homesteading from Agri-Business and Groupthink"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/threats-to-family-farms-homesteading-from-agri-business-and-groupthink_10162018\">Threats to Family Farms &amp; Homesteading from Agri-Business and Groupthink<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62899\" src=\"http:\/\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/garden-1-e1539718404147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This research-based article details the multiple threats to good, community farming practices and small-scale organic\/cooperative endeavors. The threats take the form of social engineering in the guise of \u201cmanaged providers working for the common good of the majority of people,\u201d when in effect it concentrates the wealth and resources in the hands of the few and leaves the average family farm and homesteader out in the cold, or worse. \u201cLegislates\u201d them right into illegality with previously legal practices (such as rainwater catchments systems, or sustainable family farms.)<\/p>\n<p>An older article I recently stumbled across is particularly revealing of the mindset that governs this struggle: one characterized by that mindset\u2019s reliance on \u201ctechnology\u201d and \u201cmechanization\u201d to provide a plethora of bountiful harvests. The article is entitled <strong>\u201c8 Solutions for a Hungry World\u201d <\/strong>and it lists those \u201csolutions\u201d as such:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Farm the desert<\/strong> \u2013 using a greenhouse that converts seawater to freshwater,<br \/>\n<strong>2. Grow with precision<\/strong> \u2013 using soil sensors to inform when water and fertilizer are needed,<br \/>\n<strong>3. Rebuild rice<\/strong> \u2013 the genetic engineering of the photosynthetic capabilities of rice,<br \/>\n<strong>4. Replace fertilizer<\/strong> \u2013 with a mixture of 300 natural microbes (now synthesized) for Nitrogen fertilization,<br \/>\n<strong>5. Re-map a continent<\/strong> \u2013 to target new farming technologies in Africa,<br \/>\n<strong>6. Use robot labor<\/strong> \u2013 to monitor, prune, and pick produce,<br \/>\n<strong>7. Resurrect the soil<\/strong> \u2013 biochar machines the size of shipping (sea-land) containers,<br \/>\n<strong>8. Make supercrops<\/strong> \u2013 more genetically engineered crops.<\/p>\n<p>All of these proposed solutions (although possible) can (and probably will, if implemented) have far-reaching consequences. Items 3, 4, and 8 involve genetic engineering and manipulation of other species. Items 2 and 6 are unnecessary, replacing human labor with faddish gadgets that consume both energy and fuel. Item 5 concentrates and categorizes geographic spreads of potential profitability (a return to medieval serfdom, fiefs and all) instead of viable human communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threats to Family Farms &amp; Homesteading from Agri-Business and Groupthink This research-based article details the multiple threats to good, community farming practices and small-scale organic\/cooperative endeavors. The threats take the form of social engineering in the guise of \u201cmanaged providers working for the common good of the majority of people,\u201d when in effect it concentrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22372,22374,22375,22373,5524,13196,11133,6013,6490,6640],"class_list":["post-39297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-agri-business","tag-community-farming","tag-cooperative-farming","tag-family-farms","tag-groupthink","tag-homesteading","tag-jerimiah-johnson","tag-organic-farming","tag-shtfplan-com","tag-social-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39298,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39297\/revisions\/39298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}