When I hear Green, I See Red

Lately we’re hearing a lot more about organic farming. I used to think they just didn’t understand. Now it just makes me mad.

I grew up in the 1930s, when all farming was organic. The modern pesticides, herbicides and animal medications which saved the world from starvation, had not yet been invented, or simply were not available to poor dirt farmers.

I spent many, many fall afternoons walking alongside a horse-drawn wagon, picking corn. Little, scrubby nubbin ears of corn, four to six inches long, every one a host to at least one worm. We just didn’t have the pesticides to kill whatever laid the eggs that hatched the worms. The horses tails were a solid block of tangled hair and cockleburs, from the plants that grew between the rows of corn, because we had no herbicide to control them.

Then, there were the animal diseases. Once our entire winter-supply-of-pork-to-be was wiped out by a sudden infection of cholera.

Travel to Iowa today and see endless vistas of cornfields, beautifully clean of weeds. Visit in late fall and see thousands of perfectly shaped, 12 to 14 inch ears of corn, enough to feed half the world, fatten half the world’s livestock and still have some left to make fuel for cars and trucks.
Herds of beautifully healthy farm animals are everywhere, protected by modern vaccines and nutrients.

Some people just can’t stand that. They have to look in every corner, hoping desperately to find something terribly wrong with this magnificent picture. In 1962, one Rachel Carson wrote a book called "Silent Spring". Millions bought her Chicken Little predictions and the modern environmental movement was born.

This movement brought about the banning of DDT. The use of DDT had almost eradicated malaria. There is no scientific proof that DDT causes the harm to humans or birds, attributed to this fully safe pesticide. And since its ban, malaria now kills some two million people a year.

The Greens have successfully thwarted U.S. domestic drilling for oil and gas, causing America to send billions of dollars to countries who use much of that money to develop and support anti-American activities. House speaker Nancy Pelosi says she is trying to "Save the planet". I guess her planet does not include the Middle East, where drilling is apparently okay.

Now Greens are increasing their assault on American agriculture by popularizing the mythical benefits of "organic farming".

People think Adolph Hitler was the bloodiest killer of modern times, but the tragedy of his concentration camps pales in comparison to the harm inflicted by environmentalists.

How do the Greens respond to these accusations? Dr Charles Wurster, chief scientist for the Environmental Defence Fund, may have revealed how some environmentalists really feel about human beings when he was asked if people might die as a result of the DDT ban: 'Probably...so what? People are the causes of all the problems; we have too many of them. We need to get rid of some of them, and this is as good a way as any.

A Special Offer
To the decendants of our European Ancestors
(The ones who remained in the old countries)

We are really happy that you liked the new American president. He was affectionately greeted throughout his tour.

So, just to prove we still love you, here is our offer: You may keep Mr. Obama!

You may make him a King or a Chancellor, or a Prime Minister, or whatever title you choose to bestow on worthless politicians in your cute little countries.

You may fawn over him, idolize him, bow to him and applaud him to your hearts' content. You may fill your newspapers with glowing stories of your first African-European Whatever. You may give him a crown or a castle, or whatever accords with your particular ancient customs.

Meanwhile, back in the colonies, we can elect a president who will reverse the obscene government spending that threatens to rob our children and grand children of the blessings we have enjoyed since we left our ancestral homelands "over there" to come to these shores. (In the case of my family, well over three centuries ago.)

We can elect the kind of man or woman who would have destroyed that North Korean Missile on the launch pad before their Dear Leader pushed the launch button. Someone who, likewise, will remove Iran's nuclear capabilities immediately... just so we don't have to come back again and save your asses in another World War.

We can elect someone who will call a terrorist a terrorist and proceed to destroy their movement.

And then, perhaps, we will all live happily ever after - or at least a few years longer!