US small farmer and conservative John Klar, has given a spirited defence of cows. And cows really do need their champion given the attack upon them that has been launched by the World Economic Forum and the climate change alarmist lobby. Cow farts and burps, so the myths go, are major methane releasing mechanisms, driving the planet to supposed extinction; but not of course, the industrialisation of communist China, for communist greenhouse gases, especially from non-Whites are good. Or so the brainwashing goes.
As for cows being dumb, there is a nice reply done by Klar, comparing people, some say "sheeple," to cows: "Cows live in the now. They eat what is in front of them, pasture or trough. They drink from a river or a tub, without thinking what is up or downstream, or who fills the tub. But shut off the water for a day and they sure will complain!
Most modern Americans are more like CAFO cows in stalls. Like veal calves locked in tiny rooms watching TV and TikTok. They don't look up or down the river any better than cows to see where their food comes from or where their waste goes. We may laugh, but it isn't funny." Indeed, it is this grazing lifestyle of the herd that has allowed the globalist elites to get away with so much.
Klar has an interesting story of when some environmental activists sought to free cows from some intense pens; the cows did not want to leave their enclosures, as that was all they had ever known, and freedom was something that they had never contemplated. Klar continues the metaphor that most of the people are like this, especially regarding the food and health situation. In what was available of the talk, he did not give his answers, but he has a book coming out on the issue with the stark title, Farm Hard or Starve, which will set out where he thinks farming needs to go to be truly "sustainable" beyond the present climate change fanaticism.
https://johnklar.substack.com/p/a-case-for-cows-part-one
"[Below are my prepared remarks for Day Two of the Liberty Food Fest in Bellows Falls, which, of course, bears little relation to what I actually said. My references to Joel are to my fellow speaker and ally Joel Salatin, who spoke before me at the Liberty Food Fest. I also include the audio, which is quite different — it includes some sketchy language, a response to the previous speaker who employed derogatory (foul) language toward Republicans — I tried to be nonpartisan in retort. :)]
For those of you who don't own cows, don't feel left out. That's the whole point here. So let's talk about those cows. Cows live in the now. They eat what is in front of them, pasture or trough. They drink from a river or a tub, without thinking what is up or downstream, or who fills the tub. But shut off the water for a day and they sure will complain!
Most modern Americans are more like CAFO cows in stalls. Like veal calves locked in tiny rooms watching TV and TikTok. They don't look up or down the river any better than cows to see where their food comes from or where their waste goes. We may laugh, but it isn't funny.
My first book Small Farm Republic made the case for three things: 1) that conservatives could embrace healthy farming and food as a credible environmental policy (Go MAHA!); 2) that ecotoxins are a bigger threat than greenhouse gases, and if you go after the former you get the latter in the bargain; and 3) that cows are not a climate threat; renewables manufacturing that spews forever chemicals is.
My upcoming book, Farm Hard or Starve, takes us into a deeper awareness of our cow-like imprisonment, building on these same ideas. Now that Americans are looking at their food supplies, what do they see? I want to show them – and you – how ugly and terrifying our situation truly has become.
I recall a scene from the documentary Food, Inc. where animal rights activists seek to rescue CAFO cows and throw open a steel gate — and the cows just stare and won't leave the pen they are so accustomed to. We humans are much like those cows – Joel and I are trying to fling the gate open and herd humanity back to the land, back to the garden, but they are fearful because they don't even know how anymore.
Let's start at the end rather than the beginning. Let's start with what this nation would look like if (when) there is a major interruption to commerce. That's all – a pause in business and trade. No gas, no internet, no travel, no fuels for home or car, no food in the grocery stores. Many things could cause this disruption, including war, an EMP, an oil crisis, a meteor, or an earthquake. This is a zombie apocalypse we are talking about right here – people eating each other like in a horror movie; tens of millions crammed into cities like cows in a factory. The water stopped running and the troughs are all empty – where will the human herd go, and what will it do, when it wakes up one day and realizes it is doomed to starve in place? It is then too late to run out of the gate – the gate is closed.
OK, with that cheerful sci-fi image behind us, let's go back to the beginning. Let's discuss how we got here, why our vulnerabilities are greater than ever, what voices are sweetly singing to draw us into even greater dependency and CAFO-like vulnerability, and how we open the gates from our imprisonment and stop living like incarcerated beasts with HBO and a hot tub."