{"id":1558895,"date":"2022-07-18T06:30:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558895"},"modified":"2022-07-18T07:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T11:04:41","slug":"ny-post-editorial-board-green-food-fight-over-farms-will-end-in-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-post-editorial-board-green-food-fight-over-farms-will-end-in-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Post Editorial Board: Green Food Fight Over Farms Will End in Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fny-post-editorial-board-green-food-fight-over-farms-will-end-in-disaster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1558895&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/07\/AFP_Sri-Lanka.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just in time for the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/15\/russian-mcdonalds-cut-off-by-french-fries-suppliers\/\">Ukraine war<\/a> to hammer global supply, the insane green crusade is choosing its next target: food.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From Sri Lanka to the Netherlands, green extremists are implementing, in the name of stopping climate change, agricultural policies  that are already having disastrous effects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Take Sri Lanka\u2019s 2021 ban on the import of chemical fertilizers. Predictably, the nation\u2019s farming sector \u2014 on which the vast majority of its citizens depend economically \u2014 collapsed. Yields plummeted, food prices skyrocketed and political unrest exploded. <\/p>\n<p>It just led to the ouster of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/11\/sri-lanka-to-get-new-president-amid-political-and-economic-meltdown\/\">President Gotabaya Rajapaska<\/a>, who foolishly instituted the ban. Why? As he himself put it, he did it in the name of \u201csustainable food systems.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Except it proved just the opposite. <\/p>\n<p>The Dutch government, meanwhile, is using deeply unscientific worries over nitrogen pollution from livestock to crack down on the nation\u2019s farmers. It\u2019s demanding a 50% cut in nitro pollution by 2030 (rather like the Empire State\u2019s own insane plan on carbon).\u00a0This would mean a lot fewer cows. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>That\u2019s bad news for Dutch farmers, who are protesting vigorously despite rough police overreaction.<\/p>\n<p>And for the world: The country is the globe\u2019s second-largest food exporter after the United States. And if the maniacal greens in the Dutch governing coalition get their way, the numerous other nations  that depend on the country\u2019s meat exports will suffer, which the background of global inflation and the Ukraine war will only amplify.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here in America, the anti-farm push is so far still on the softish side. Lefty ice cream gurus Ben and Jerry, for example, are working on dietary changes so cows emit less methane, part and parcel of an effort to paint cattle as a climate culprit. The same impulse drives the buzz around companies that make lab-grown meat and nut milk \u2014 to say nothing of insects-for-dinner advocates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But how long before <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/29\/buttigieg-slammed-for-urging-electric-car-buying-to-counter-gas-prices\/\">\u201cjust buy an electric car\u201d<\/a> becomes \u201cjust eat roaches instead of hamburgers\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, protecting the environment is important. Cutting emissions, too. But the same crew advocating for farm crackdowns and bug-eating are conspicuously silent on, for example, the power of nuclear energy to <em>really<\/em> green the world by making developed countries less dependent on fossil fuel and giving needed breathing room on carbon to developing ones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And many of the Davos types leading the drive fly in carbon-spewing private planes while lecturing the plebes \u00e0 la <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/09\/john-kerry-says-ukraine-refugee-crisis-is-bad\/\">John Kerry<\/a>. They\u2019re <em>not serious<\/em> about saving the earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As with carbon craziness (and COVID policy), they\u2019re out-of-touch elites mandating shortages they themselves will never feel the sting of.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for the Ukraine war to hammer global supply, the insane green crusade is choosing its next target: food.\u00a0 From Sri Lanka to the Netherlands, green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1574183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}