It seems that an awful lot of political battles these days are connected to farms and farmland.
This is not something I would have guessed a few years back. I thought of farms as places where good people grew food and raised livestock, both of which should be uncontroversial. We need food to ensure that all us humans keep living, and livestock for much the same reason.
EXCLUSIVE: Map shows Chinese-owned farmland next to 19 US military bases in ‘alarming’ threat to national security: experts https://t.co/7LYbLbi88k pic.twitter.com/401yvNu9Jc
— New York Post (@nypost) June 20, 2024
But cows are apparently ultra flatulent and growing food is an affront to Mother Earth or something, so our overlords are buying up farmland and turning it into fields of thistles or something, or perhaps bee preserves. Anything, as long as nothing useful is grown on the land.
Bill Gates and…