No Farmers No Food: Is the ‘global food crisis’ a result of environmental agenda?

Today there is a massive worldwide food crisis. Prices are skyrocketing, and shortages exist in many areas. On top of that, some claim traditional farming exacerbates global warming and climate change because livestock manure contains ample nitrogen and produces nitrous oxide as it is first stored and then recycled as fertilizer. Nitrous oxide warms the atmosphere, increasing the greenhouse effect. 

So, for some influential groups and figures, the solution to the global food and environmental crises comes down to this: reduce livestock farming, and eat more insects.

That’s the premise of No Farmers No Food: Will You Eat the Bugs?, a new documentary produced by the folks at Epoch Times and available online (nofarmersnofood.com). Although the prospect of routinely sitting down to a meal of toasted crickets and grubs instead of beef and pork for one’s protein may seem a bit alarmist to many in developed nations, the film presents reasonable evidence that there’s a global movement afoot to wrest control of agriculture from small family farmers in order to meet the demands of environmental goals set in recent decades by the UN and most recently reaffirmed in its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Host Roman Balmakov tours the world for answers. He interviews farmers in the Netherlands, where environmental laws are forcing them to scale back their numbers of livestock and acres farmed in order to comply with environmental regulations; Sri Lanka, where the Socialist government outlawed synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, causing a drastic drop in rice production and exports, thereby creating a national economic crisis as the government defaulted on foreign debt; and California, where dams are being destroyed far inland along the Klamath River to save the non-native coho salmon, hurting farmers in the valley who rely on the reservoirs for irrigation water. 

Some commentators refer to such draconian environmental measures as an attack on farmers, a war on property rights, or a means to centralize government power by obliterating individual freedoms. To the extent any of this is true, it’s a tough bug to swallow.