The ebb and flow of progressive economics is exasperatingly inbred. More ebb than flow, really. As penance for reading too much Léon Bloy this week, I made myself read an article in Mother Jones claiming that “Scientists say this diet could prevent 40,000 early deaths per day and cut food-related emissions by half.”
The first thing I did was ask myself who exactly these “scientists” are — a term that reminds me suspiciously of “the experts” from the pandemic. You remember them: that anonymous, mystical choir of people no one had ever seen or touched, solemnly assuring us that COVID spread ferociously in churches and schools but not at the private orgies of politicians. That was a very whimsical virus. Maybe it didn’t need a vaccine so much as a good slap in the face.
Maybe it’s time to admit it: we’re dealing with the dumbest billionaire caste in human history.
The “scientists” in question belong to the EAT-Lancet Commission. And the report the article cites was funded by the usual suspects: the IKEA Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A bunch of organizations created by left-wing millionaires who made their fortunes through the most ruthless capitalism — plundering the planet — and who now zip around in private jets lecturing the world’s poorest farmers that their cornfields and zucchini patches are poisoning the Earth. (RELATED: The Church of Climate Panic)
Money talks. You know that. Obviously, if all these globalist, environmentalist, neo-communist outfits bankroll a “scientific” report, only an idiot would expect it to conclude anything other than what it does: that we must urgently cut food-related emissions by 2050, that food production causes biodiversity loss, deforestation, and water pollution, and that the richest 30 percent of humanity is responsible for 70 percent of food-related environmental damage. (RELATED: The Left’s Top Dark Money Monster Is Dying — and Taking the Democratic Party With It)
So, what do the scientists recommend? Taxes on “unhealthy” foods, advertising restrictions, subsidies for “organic agriculture” (as if non-organic farming even existed; and if it did, it caused Hiroshima-level destruction), drastic cuts in meat consumption, and a crackdown on food waste. (RELATED: New Climate Report Deserves to Be Debated, Not Silenced)
In short: more taxes, less freedom, good old-fashioned Western guilt, the death of traditional farming, and a river of subsidies for the kind of “industrial-organic” agriculture that the report’s financiers have been quietly investing in for years.
The report’s four main authors? A climate zealot pushing the U.N. green agenda, a progressive nutritionist who treats taxes and advertising bans as if they were part of food’s molecular structure, an “environmental economist” (enough said), and a Swede who leads something called Nordic sociological thought — which roughly translates into Greta hurling dozens of plastic Tupperware containers and water bottles stuffed with Palestinian love letters into the sea, hoping the tide carries them to Gaza.
Year 2025. Maybe it’s time to admit it: we’re dealing with the dumbest billionaire caste in human history. Also, the most hypocritical — and the most dangerous. The unscrupulous tycoon of old Hollywood films is still unscrupulous, still a tycoon, but now he’s working hard to hide it — enlisting in a global crusade against pollution and poverty that sounds about as effective as John Lennon’s “Imagine” at stopping the war in Ukraine.
As for the diet, the “scientists” prescribe more than five servings of fruit a day, three or four of whole grains, one serving of nuts, legumes, and dairy, four eggs a week (not counting the scientists’ own eggs), two servings of chicken or fish a week, and — brace yourself — just one serving of satanic-polluting-antisocial-red-meat per week, at most.
My advice, if you really want to save the planet, is to flip those proportions. Eat a hearty stack of thick steaks every day, and when the time comes, you’ll be strong enough to defend the Earth from this gang of psychopaths trying to destroy humanity and Western civilization.
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