"Due to my unconstitutional war on Iran, which I started based on a lie alone for Israel, I managed to cut off vital fertilizers needed by US farmers."
Lena, you mentioned we export some of the phosphate fertilizer we make in the US. It seems like the first order of business would be to deny exports for 8 months of all fertilizer produced in the United States. I am not under any illusions that the business class in the US always gets what they want first, over and above what the American people need. I have no doubt we will be still exporting food from America no matter how high food prices go, as Big Business runs the show.
On other fronts, Trump has caused immeasurable harm to the US economy. Canada is now building an oil pipeline to the coast to sell their oil to Asian buyers because Trump threatened to tariff Canadian oil coming into the US, going to US refineries. This will probably reduce some employment at US refineries as a result of less oil to process. Trash talking and threatening our next door trading partner is reckless and has damaged the two countries' relations for decades to come. Canada is working long-term to reduce reliance on the US. This also means they will buy their upcoming defense needs from other countries than the US. Trump is a bull in a china shop, leaving long-term damage wherever he goes while Congress seems happy with an Imperial Presidency.
We also do so directly as well. Look at the embargoing of fuel into Cuba. Making the Cuban people suffer because we don't like their government is evil and inexcusable. The Founding Fathers, we supposed celebrate this week, would be appalled at what has become of the Constitutional Republic replaced by the American Empire.
What does this declaration have to do with reality? Only winging it here, but what do big ag, phosphates, phosphate toxicity, and USA fertilizer exports (worldstopexportsdotcom lists us #6 internationally!) have to do with family farms, natural fertilizer sources, plant and human health, and domestic needs over private profit?
Haven't you picked a perfect example of BIG, TOXIC, and MONEY at all costs cloaked in a red cross of concern?
And about presidential powers in a NATIONAL EMERGENCY . . . . ?
"Only winging it here, but what do big ag, phosphates, phosphate toxicity, and USA fertilizer exports (worldstopexportsdotcom lists us #6 internationally!) have to do with family farms, natural fertilizer sources, plant and human health, and domestic needs over private profit?"
Winging it is an understatement. You speak of phosphate toxicity rather than natural fertilizer. If you want to know about toxicity, go out to a barnyard, scoop up a cow pie, and take a big bite. Family farms use all the same fertilizers that 'big ag' uses. If you have any hope of feeding the world's population, you damn well better get over the aversion to fertilizers.
Succumbing to the impulse to repeat myself albeit your different approach to the subject . . . and when was your last lip smacking big bowl of fertilizer?
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Re the beauty of perception, expanding horizons, and investigation v. assumption, let’s highlight a distinction between nutrients and fertilizer, nutrients representing a natural harmony $omehow absent from common contemporary public discourse. One response of many from a search for “food crops without fertilizer”:
“Ultimately, farming without fertilizer does not mean farming without nutrients. Instead, it means managing nutrients in a more ecological way.
Rather than treating the soil as an empty medium that needs constant chemical correction, this approach treats the farm as a living system.”
"Succumbing to the impulse to repeat myself albeit your different approach to the subject . . . and when was your last lip smacking big bowl of fertilizer?"
I think I see your problem. You're not supposed to eat the fertilizer, just what it produces. You raised the issue of phosphate toxicity.
"Ultimately, farming without fertilizer does not mean farming without nutrients. Instead, it means managing nutrients in a more ecological way."
Your statement is nonsensical; fertilizer supplies nutrients.
But I admit that too many farmers overfertilize. And runoff pollutes waterways, especially in agricultural states.
It seems people are missing the point. We're no longer getting port ash from Canada at affordable prices because of Trump's tariffs. We're not importing much in the way of nitrogen because 20% of it is sitting in the Persian Gulf.
Phosphates are now a severely diminished import. So Trump declares a national emergency. Too late, so sad. Next spring, when the farms around the country go looking for fertilizers, only the wealthiest corporate farms will get the lion's share. Add on top of that, the super El Niño that is going to dry everything up, and food insecurity in the U.S. will jump up exponentially.
Stock up now while you can. A lot of things like pasta may be hard to find by the end of next summer.
Trump's proclamation SHOULD have read:
"Due to my unconstitutional war on Iran, which I started based on a lie alone for Israel, I managed to cut off vital fertilizers needed by US farmers."
Lena, you mentioned we export some of the phosphate fertilizer we make in the US. It seems like the first order of business would be to deny exports for 8 months of all fertilizer produced in the United States. I am not under any illusions that the business class in the US always gets what they want first, over and above what the American people need. I have no doubt we will be still exporting food from America no matter how high food prices go, as Big Business runs the show.
On other fronts, Trump has caused immeasurable harm to the US economy. Canada is now building an oil pipeline to the coast to sell their oil to Asian buyers because Trump threatened to tariff Canadian oil coming into the US, going to US refineries. This will probably reduce some employment at US refineries as a result of less oil to process. Trash talking and threatening our next door trading partner is reckless and has damaged the two countries' relations for decades to come. Canada is working long-term to reduce reliance on the US. This also means they will buy their upcoming defense needs from other countries than the US. Trump is a bull in a china shop, leaving long-term damage wherever he goes while Congress seems happy with an Imperial Presidency.
The avaricious megalomaniacs control and own this country. The United States sure as hell isn't what it was meant to be!
Trump's actions in Iran have guaranteed global famine and depression.
We also do so directly as well. Look at the embargoing of fuel into Cuba. Making the Cuban people suffer because we don't like their government is evil and inexcusable. The Founding Fathers, we supposed celebrate this week, would be appalled at what has become of the Constitutional Republic replaced by the American Empire.
tRump caused this by putting high tariffs on Canada and then again by attacking IRAN for israel and turning the US into an international pariah.
Lena Petrova, you have it in the title, DECLARES.
What does this declaration have to do with reality? Only winging it here, but what do big ag, phosphates, phosphate toxicity, and USA fertilizer exports (worldstopexportsdotcom lists us #6 internationally!) have to do with family farms, natural fertilizer sources, plant and human health, and domestic needs over private profit?
Haven't you picked a perfect example of BIG, TOXIC, and MONEY at all costs cloaked in a red cross of concern?
And about presidential powers in a NATIONAL EMERGENCY . . . . ?
"Only winging it here, but what do big ag, phosphates, phosphate toxicity, and USA fertilizer exports (worldstopexportsdotcom lists us #6 internationally!) have to do with family farms, natural fertilizer sources, plant and human health, and domestic needs over private profit?"
Winging it is an understatement. You speak of phosphate toxicity rather than natural fertilizer. If you want to know about toxicity, go out to a barnyard, scoop up a cow pie, and take a big bite. Family farms use all the same fertilizers that 'big ag' uses. If you have any hope of feeding the world's population, you damn well better get over the aversion to fertilizers.
Succumbing to the impulse to repeat myself albeit your different approach to the subject . . . and when was your last lip smacking big bowl of fertilizer?
———————————-
Re the beauty of perception, expanding horizons, and investigation v. assumption, let’s highlight a distinction between nutrients and fertilizer, nutrients representing a natural harmony $omehow absent from common contemporary public discourse. One response of many from a search for “food crops without fertilizer”:
“Ultimately, farming without fertilizer does not mean farming without nutrients. Instead, it means managing nutrients in a more ecological way.
Rather than treating the soil as an empty medium that needs constant chemical correction, this approach treats the farm as a living system.”
https://www.eatcommunity.com/blog/farming-without-fertilizer-future-of-agriculture
"Succumbing to the impulse to repeat myself albeit your different approach to the subject . . . and when was your last lip smacking big bowl of fertilizer?"
I think I see your problem. You're not supposed to eat the fertilizer, just what it produces. You raised the issue of phosphate toxicity.
"Ultimately, farming without fertilizer does not mean farming without nutrients. Instead, it means managing nutrients in a more ecological way."
Your statement is nonsensical; fertilizer supplies nutrients.
But I admit that too many farmers overfertilize. And runoff pollutes waterways, especially in agricultural states.
Sounds like saying cereal comes from a box. So much for curiosity, wonder, and life.
WTF
It seems people are missing the point. We're no longer getting port ash from Canada at affordable prices because of Trump's tariffs. We're not importing much in the way of nitrogen because 20% of it is sitting in the Persian Gulf.
Phosphates are now a severely diminished import. So Trump declares a national emergency. Too late, so sad. Next spring, when the farms around the country go looking for fertilizers, only the wealthiest corporate farms will get the lion's share. Add on top of that, the super El Niño that is going to dry everything up, and food insecurity in the U.S. will jump up exponentially.
Stock up now while you can. A lot of things like pasta may be hard to find by the end of next summer.