Starvation has ended more than one political empire. The pages of human history are frequently chaptered by acute moments of hunger which defined the story of civilisation in the same way that cataclysms divide the geological record.
The West has been caught up in the decadence of culinary success for over a century, meaning that both citizens and politicians have forgotten that failure on their part to provide good governance doesn’t end in election defeat. A true failure of political thought ends in violence, poverty, social predation, and famine.
The reason that the leaders of the ancient world appeared more skilled and savvy than today’s cardboard cut-outs is because they were. They lived closer to the line and had to be more careful.
It would be a mistake for the Duttons and Albaneses of the world to imagine themselves lording over a bubble-wrapped empire. There are two political mistakes on their plate poised to drag Australia into the depths of catastrophic failure.
The first is Net Zero and the very real energy fail point that we are hurtling toward with every closed coal-fired plant. Unlike Europe, we cannot prod a few nuclear reactors into life and fudge the numbers on renewables. Our lights will go out. It is a political failure that will be visible from space, accented by a blank hole on a Nasa photograph. Running out of power isn’t just a problem – it’s a disaster.
The second issue is the infestation of collectivist identity politics, particularly the variety that has given rise to a new generation of racial supremacists who genuinely believe that people of a certain original ethnicity deserve enshrined political power. Calls for a ‘Pay the Rent’ system of reparations is quite simply the establishment of a race tax. Extorting money out of innocent people because of the colour of their skin is exactly how you start a civil war. It’s the sort of politics running rampant in the Marxist-saturated nightmare of failed African states. What kind of depraved Parliamentarian wants to see that here? Quite a few, actually.
There is a third tool of coercion lingering around the political menu. It keeps itself to the edges of the conversation, occasionally draping itself in virtue to steal a headline or two before slinking off to a quiet corner. The world isn’t ready for it to unfurl its limbs and strut around, but when it does, we’re all going to regret letting the ideology survive unquestioned as a curiosity instead of a threat.
Ancient empires used to know that if you controlled the food supply – you controlled the nation.
Morons like China’s Chairman Mao attempted to micromanage food production from a centralised government authority in the name of efficiency. There are a number of complex and long-understood reasons why you cannot collectivise agriculture but suffice to say, Mao’s vision was to keep his communist empire obedient via the stomachs of its citizens. His failure to do this – and the subsequent deaths of 60 million people – ended his regime.
Presumably it’s better to learn from Mao’s failure than repeat the experiment.
Not so, according to the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, whose collaboration in the area of Sustainability and Climate has led to ‘bright ideas’ like ending synthetic fertiliser in favour of ‘organic’ farming. It was an idea that collapsed their project poster child, Sri Lanka, in less than six months. With the failure of agriculture – which in some cases lost 80 per cent of its output – came the unimaginable destruction of the nation’s social structure. With no food, there was no money. With no money, there was no energy or fuel. People were left starving and desperate in the streets. A media blackout followed the very literal blackout and god knows what really happened as Sri Lanka crumbled under the failed politics of one bad idea.
Did we learn from Sri Lanka?
No. Both Canada and the Netherlands – two of the most important food growing regions in the world – are being forced into the same monstrous ‘organic’ legislation as Sir Lanka. Instead of having a discussion about the failure of its ideology, the World Economic Forum deleted the gushing post from Sri Lanka’s (now ex) Prime Minister, This is how I will make my country rich by 2025 after he fled the country in fear for his life. As for the United Nations, they are pushing their Sustainability Goals on the promise of apocalypse (whose arrival date is as inconsistent as a Gen Z gender identity).
In the case of the Netherlands, the politics being enforced goes further than what decimated Sri Lanka. The government is using environmentalism as an excuse to enact land grabs and re-structure the food growing hierarchy, taking the power and profit off individual farmers and transferring it to large agricultural businesses. Europeans are more difficult to oppress, as they have practice dealing with fascistic politicians. The recent election of the Farmer Citizen Movement (BBB) is now one of the largest political forces in Dutch politics and is facing off against a coalition of hard greens. It is the decadent brain-washed city slickers against the people who feed them. The greens do not seem to understand that if they succeed in silencing the farmers, everyone loses.
We will soon see the same politics unfold in Australia, with all major parties lining up behind imported ‘Sustainability’ policies. These involve outrageous demands made by the European Union as part of our continued trade arrangement. Frankly, Australia should tell the EU to ‘go starve’ rather than allow a foreign bureaucracy to dictate our farming practices.
Printed on the European Union website is the following: ‘Australia has deep political, economic and cultural ties with the European Union, working closely to meet shared global responsibilities such as promoting sustainable development, tackling climate change and respect for international law.’
And as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald:
‘Australian farmers must boost environmental credentials and cut greenhouse emissions if they want to maintain access to the $72 billion export market, Agriculture Minister Murray Watt warns as he jets off for crucial trade talks with the United Kingdom and the European Union.’
Sorry but no. Australia has been in a Net Zero deficit for its entire existence – unlike Europe, which is once again at war. We don’t owe the European Union, or the ‘climate’, a damn thing and we should have told them so a very long time ago – the arrogant, autocratic, sods.
The problem is that our politicians measure their egos against how often their European counterparts exploit them. Australia’s federal ministers are like the cows that show up to the feed lots for milking – giving Australia’s self respect away in exchange for a bucket of hay. Most of them hope to retire into cushy European posts, making their fortunes far away from the mess they leave at home.
Australians need to understand that the unholy collaboration between the United Nations and the World Economic Forum is moving to control the production of food globally and – of far more concern – regulate practices which are set to create a severe artificial shortage also known as a famine.
Whether the famine is a consequence of arrogance, idiocy, or design, it does not matter. Hungry people are politically dependent on their leaders. They are slaves to their stomachs and loyal to their negligent masters.
Instead of allowing Net Zero ‘I’m such a wonderful saviour!!!’ politics to divide the nation between farmers and city dwellers, those who live within the privileged confines of Australia’s major cities need to pay attention to the dark side of climate alarmism.
Politicians are never going to blame the pending food shortages on Net Zero – not when their political careers and financial interests are hitched to its virtue. They’ll pretend that empty supermarket shelves and ridiculous price hikes are because of ‘climate change’. Look to any communist regime and you’ll find the same empty shelves. Lying about the cause means their proposed solutions will never work.
Climate activists understand that their politics is headed toward famine – it is why they have started floating the idea at various COP festivals that we need to lower the ‘carbon footprint of our diets’ and that ‘going hungry’ is virtuous. Starvation is a good thing in the progressive world of Net Zero. Never mind. If you don’t want to starve, you can always eat the bugs crawling over the trash of human civilisation.
Imagine a generation being so stupid that they were born eating the best, cheapest food in human history and yet long for a diet of lab-grown garbage and soy-fried cockroaches so they can attain a higher social status on TikTok. Only a cult could damage people’s minds so badly.
Closely linked to the politics of our carbon footprint hunger is the parallel movement of modern veganism which has evolved from a personal desire to avoid eating other creatures into a quest for ideological purity. Veganism has become a status symbol – a declaration that goes into people’s social media profiles alongside their syringes, flags, and pronouns.
The truth is that if humanity switched to veganism we’d starve due to the basic mathematics of calorie production. Essentially, veganism is the diet of the privileged who can not only afford to be exceptionally picky about the source of their calories, but don’t mind the excess wasted energy that goes into their puritanical ‘organic’ diets. (This excludes the handful of vegans who grow their own food.)
Derived from vegetarianism, the veganism of Donald Watson and his fundamental opposition to speciesism is a distant memory. Now we have the early movement of veganarchism – those who want a stateless society with a vegan lifestyle (although it hasn’t occurred to them that without a state they won’t be able to enforce veganism on their hungry peers). This movement is the source of those overtly destructive activists that soak themselves in blood and get in the way when you’re trying to buy milk.
The environmental vegans are a more insufferable group as their belief in veganism is linked to the extremely powerful climate change movement. To be an environmental vegan is to be a more virtuous member of the climate cult. Altering one’s diet is a common part of religious devotion and it is no different with this apocalyptic belief system. Being vegan is a daily reminder of the pending brimstone and a way for environmental movements to keep themselves present in the minds (and on the plates) of converts.
Things get really weird when you slip into sub categories such as feminist veganism, which insists that there is a ‘relationship’ between meat eating and feminism. Mind you, not many are convinced by the arguments in, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. I’ll let you make up your own mind:
‘While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs discussions about meat by constructing the discourse in such a way that these issues need never be addressed. Language distances us from the reality of meat eating, thus reinforcing the symbolic meaning of meat eating, a symbolic meaning that is intrinsically patriarchal and male-oriented. Meat becomes a symbol for what is not seen but is always there – patriarchal control of animals and of language.’
‘Just as feminists proclaimed that ‘rape is violence, not sex,’ vegetarians wish to name the violence of meat eating.’
‘Manhood is constructed in our culture, in part, by access to meat eating and control of other bodies.’
– The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory.
If you’re not happy with feminist veganism, you can sign yourself up for ‘capitalism and feminist veganism’ which views ‘meat eating as the ultimate capitalist product, because it takes so much to make the product, it uses up so many resources’. How does that relate to pre-civilisation humanity? Were our cave-dwelling, mammoth-slaying ancestors capitalists as they sat around their campfires, chewing prehistoric steaks? Capitalism is an economic system – of which veganism is a thriving part. The nonsense of festering diet-based politics is surely giving us a glimpse of how bizarre ‘carbon footprint counting’ is going to get?
The most outlandish version of veganism might be ‘black veganism’ which brands itself as a political philosophy as well as a diet (although that is true of veganism from the start). It views the eating of non-human animals as a form of slavery. As quoted in Wikipedia:
‘…the movement is about the Black community reclaiming its food sovereignty and ‘decolonising’ the diet of Black Americans … the area where most vegans of colour feel the greatest rift with mainstream veganism is in mainstream veganism’s failure to recognise the intersectionality with other social justice issues such as food access.’
Only the most bored and privileged of societies has time for this kind of nonsense. Truly oppressed people aren’t theorising about the philosophy of their food, they’re out hunting and gathering dinner.
The story of veganism matters – not only because its absurdity is worth a meander through on a Saturday morning – but because it gives us a glimpse of the political manipulation of human diets.
Net Zero and the United Nation’s Sustainability Goals – to which Australia is a signatory – involve demands to change what we eat. Most of our corporations have signed ESG contracts that include requirements to lower calories, change production processes, exclude traditional farming practices, switch to Big Ag businesses products, and to substantially decrease our consumption of dairy and meat products by 2030.
Does anyone remember giving these people control over our shopping cart?
Did anyone genuinely imagine that their vote to ‘save the planet’ is likely to result in the loss of their favourite BBQ lunch?
How many proud Australian carnivores are ready for the cockroach revolution?
Those who control our diet control the nation. Virtue-signalling, carbon-counting menus are not going to remain an obscure idea like veganism. They will become politicised, enforced, and implemented without our consent by businesses seeking to profit from the Net Zero gravy train.
Those who resist, will starve.
Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
