Obama Wants To Control Our Food

Obama wants to convert farms to forests to 'clean the air of heat-trapping gases'. Naturally, farmers and ranchers are concerned. We ought to be concerned as well because that would be less food being produced which means there will be less to go around which means higher food prices. It's not hard to guess where the government is going with this and whose land will end being in control of crop production. Hint: government-controlled. Make plans to start growing your own food, Folks. Learn how to can and store it as well as learning how to hunt if it ever becomes necessary. You might wish you had.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food.

The latest Agriculture Department economic-impact study of the climate bill, which passed the House this summer, found that the legislation would profit farmers in the long term. But those profits would come mostly from higher crop prices as a result of the legislation's incentives to plant more forests and thus reduce the amount of land devoted to food-producing agriculture.

According to the economic model used by the department and the Environmental Protection Agency, the legislation would give landowners incentives to convert up to 59 million acres of farmland into forests over the next 40 years. The reason: Trees clean the air of heat-trapping gases better than farming does.

Mr. Vilsack, in a little-noticed statement issued with the report earlier this month, said the department's forecasts "have caused considerable concern" among farmers and ranchers.

Plan To Convert Farms To Forests Worries Agriculture Secretary



[edit on 29-12-2009 by gazerstar]