Tag: farmers
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Glyphosate Is a System Design Problem
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2026 (Mar. 17, 2026) — Glyphosate coordinates seed traits, tillage methods, planting schedules, labor allocation, and financial risk management in modern agriculture. It ceased being merely an herbicide and became fundamental infrastructure. Glyphosate dependence persists because incentives, market structures, regulations, and production models continually reproduce this reliance—even in the…
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Citizens Can Stop the CO2 Pipeline Steamroller
by Tom DeWeese, American Policy Center, ©2025 (May 4, 2025) — The fight to stop the carbon capture pipeline across five Midwest states is yielding some positive results. But the forces behind it haven’t given up. Now, three more states are targeted. This tyranny over farmers can be stopped — but only if citizens’ freedom-fighting…
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The Return of the Hungry Horses
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Apr. 8, 2024) — When I was young (many decades ago) we lived on a small family farm at Wheatvale near Warwick on the Darling Downs in Queensland, Australia. Our lifestyle was close to the organic self-sufficient nirvana that today’s green zealots babble on about –…
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Childish Beliefs Drive Lethal Energy and Agricultural Agendas
by Paul Driessen, CFACT, ©2023 (Feb. 27, 2023) — Many eco-activists (and too many legislators, regulators, judges and journalists) have trouble thinking beyond slogans. They apparently believe declaring ecological emergencies, repeating clever mantras, and issuing proclamations and mandates will create a fossil-fuel-free, organic farming utopia. In their dreams. Since 1950, American farmers increased per-acre corn…
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Ban Neonics – Hurt Farmers and Bees
“WRONGHEADED AND COUNTERPRODUCTIVE” by Paul Driessen, ©2020 (Jul. 12, 2020) — Organic pesticides, and other organic chemicals, are more dangerous to bees … and people The honeybees, bumblebees and other little pollinators swarming over my flowers remind me what important roles they play – and how some misguided folks could inadvertently hurt them. Montgomery County,…
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Is The Great Western Rural Lifestyle Dying?
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2019, President, NARLO (Apr. 14, 2019) — “The Great Western rural landowner epitomizes the raw courage, self-reliance and fierce independence of Western America’s past. He (or she) must not only face what nature and the markets can throw at him, he must suffer and endure the…
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Why Trump Won’t Stop the Land War in the West
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2016 (Nov. 20, 2016) — Most Americans are totally unaware of the battle raging in the West between landowners and the government and the environmentalists, especially those Americans who live in big cities. Their food arrives at the grocery store by truck and neatly…
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Don’t Mess With the Landowners of Tazewell County
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Mar. 20, 2016) — NOTE: For the last 10 years NARLO has been trying to get across to rural landowners that they can’t fight city hall alone. Finally, we found an example of where the people of a county decided to fight back…
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Ted Cruz Comes Out in Support of Monsanto – Calls All Non-Supporters “Anti-Science Zealots”
“FRANKENSTEIN’S LABORATORY” by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2016 (Mar. 17, 2016) — Back in an Iowa speech, Ted Cruz let it be known that he totally supported the huge agrochemical giant Monsanto. He even used Monsanto talking points, attacking all non-supporters of Monsanto as “anti-science zealots.” Mike Adams (The Health Ranger) of www.naturalnews.com accuses Ted Cruz of spiritual…
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I Come to Bury Renewable Fuel Standards
NOT TO PRAISE ETHANOL MANDATES THAT KILL JOBS, RAISE FOOD COSTS, AND HURT POOR FAMILIES AND WILDLIFE by Paul Driessen, ©2015 (Feb. 2, 2015) — They say politics makes strange bedfellows. In a perfect example, U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) are cosponsoring the “Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act,” to abolish the corn…
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Back To The Future: The Obama Dynasty!
“PREDICTABLE, BUT PREVENTABLE” by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (Feb. 24, 2013) — “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” — Benjamin Franklin Jeremy huddled in a corner of the old log cabin, out of the wind, even though it blew through the…
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Unholy Trinity – Monsanto – Big Pharmacy – New World Order
GOAL – DEPOPULATION by Dr. Laurie Roth, ©2012, Presidential Candidate (Jul. 18, 2012) — Pharmaceutical companies will control and make you dependent on their medicine of choice. Monsanto will engineer seeds and control food supplies. Obama, the U.N. and his New World Order handlers will manage and control it all. Long before Obama’s tyrannical and controlling…