Talk about serving a turkey.
On Thanksgiving Day, Bloomberg’s high-minded, totally believable leadership thought it worthwhile to be the proverbial drunk, obnoxious relative in the room, publishing an unhinged, unproven screed to tell you to stop celebrating Thanksgiving with the traditional turkey-and-fixin's meal, because, they claim, it’s bringing about climate disaster.
Perhaps you, too, realize you have another thing for which to be thankful, if you never got a subscription to Bloomberg.
The whole word-salad meal was laid out in terms of “helping” you “cut back” and, in typical leftist “propagandize through a third party” so-called “journalistic” fashion, utilized quotes attributed to “experts” to punctuate the pablum with the rhythm of “reliable sources say…”
And if you get the sense that the Bloomberg brass think of themselves as the leaders and think of you as children in a giant version of “Simon Says,” by which they offer the “knowledge and commands” and you, the trog, act in proper lemming fashion, you’re not alone.
After a brief intro about roast turkey being a traditional holiday meal for numerous holidays, intrepid Bloomberg writers (it took two to serve up this gruel) Zahra Hirji and Olivia Rudgard refer to a university “researcher” whose very field might make one clutch his side in laugh-filled mirth:
“’Meat is really intimately tied with a lot of traditions and festivities,’ says Emma Garnett, a postdoctoral researcher who studies behavior change and sustainable diets at the University of Oxford. And even outside belly-busting holiday meals, she says, meat eating has become excessive.”
You read that right. “Sustainable diet.”
That’s pretty much the idea, isn’t it? Being incapable of sustaining one’s diet leads to starvation, and the entire framework of human interaction going back to prehistory has been one of people working to avoid that tragic end – to sustain their lives.
In fact, we stand on the shoulders of giants, all, regular folks, like us, who, when left in peace, created division of labor in caveman times, which allowed the weaker to stay home and work on things they could create or do while the strong went on the hunt. That led to an innate recognition of the economic axiom of diminishing marginal returns, whereby each person recognized that putting more effort into making more of an item might produce a personally unusable surplus, so trade/barter became a great option, allowing each person to do what he or she did well, and then trade that surplus for something he or she might not make or do well.
People who recognized that multi-person barter might be difficult found that certain commodities were widely popular, and those often became forms of currency, and that stable currency (not created by government) allowed people to express across great distances and numerous languages what they valued and at what level.
Bloomberg’s dynamic duo of writers might not be familiar with this economic reality, but this process is the only one that allows expression of personal value, resource discovery, resource allocation based on true individual valuation, peace, and productivity.
It is the key to not just determining what is or is not “sustainable” in each person’s life, but to finding ways to make existing things more helpful in our lives, to find new things to help our lives, and to cut back on what we cannot use and find wasteful.
And the only way to do that is through the primacy of private property recognition.
Which, curiously, is precisely what the first Thanksgiving was about – but we’ll remind Bloomberg about that in a moment…
The Bloomberg authors go on to serve more of their fearmongering feast, claiming that they have a handle on the climatologically cataclysmic effects of so-called “greenhouse gasses”:
“In industrialized countries like the US, people often consume far more meat than dietary guidelines recommend. Scientific data now overwhelmingly shows this is not only bad for people’s health — but also the planet. ‘Food systems are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, which is huge,’ says Stacy Blondin, a behavioral science associate at World Resources Institute. Moreover, it’s the production, transportation and consumption of animal-based foods specifically that are the dominant source of food-related emissions.”
Remember what we noted about “resources,” above.
And do recall those top-down “dietary guidelines,” too.
The “authorities” who so often are tied to governments have shown such a clean, unbiased interest in getting the central “authorities” to promote what is good for people. Just ask the interests involved in shaping the federal government’s “food pyramid.”
And then see how that pyramid focused on foods produced by those special interests, at the expense of individual health, how, as economists warn about any government system, “Rent-Seeking” became the norm.
But, remember, the Climate Cult is outside this system. The collectivist, government-funded “Non-Governmental Organizations” (NGOs), the banking interests, the politicians in various countries that demand our money for “climate justice,” and the “experts” who draw salaries that are corrupted by the injections of political cash – they are clean birds. Totally.
There’s no reason to be skeptical of their pronouncements and continually incorrect predictions, to gape in awe at their incredible arrogance and pretension, to wonder at their incessant push of unfounded fear.
And there’s absolutely no reason to remind Bloomberg that as they erroneously push beans on readers as a so-called “climate friendly” protein source, they not only avoid the fact that most meats contain numerous amino acids and other nutrients that the plant-protein sources simply cannot provide, they overlook the fact that, even on their spurious climate freakout level, methane produced by livestock is a tiny fraction of what is naturally produced by plant decomposition.
And, of course, none of it has been brought to court by an individual and proven before a jury to have damaged the life or property of a plaintiff – which is necessary to call something a liability on an interpersonal level, to attach a price tag to that cost, and see the market work to reduce that potential problem and cost.
Related: Thanksgiving Is a Celebration of Private Property and Prosperity over Collectivism and Death
And that brings us back to the first Thanksgiving, celebrated by some of my own ancestors at Plymouth Plantation, Massachusetts Bay, in 1621. As I wrote and discussed in video form for MRCTV in 2018, Governor William Bradford explained in his own notes that, initially, the Pilgrims tried to survive in a system of collectivism, but they experienced the problems always associated with collectivist political institutions.
The slothful lived off the fruits of the productive; the productive resented the parasitism and worked less, the system did not produce creative ways to reduce toil and be more efficient, did not create surplus, and saw nearly half of their original number die by the spring of 1621.
But, as they acknowledged and celebrated with that first harvest feast of the late fall, and as William Bradford explained, by establishing private property, they grew productive, happier, and healthier, creating a surplus that even allowed them to invite neighboring Indians to join in their meal.
Bradford gave God the credit for showing them the path of individual liberty.
Today, politicians and bureaucrats, special interests, and their lackies in pop media want to play God. They lie, they cast fear-inducing runes, and they destroy our productivity as they impose diktats on everything from oil and natural gas, to light bulbs and gas stoves.
They even go so far as telling us we should “eateh ze bugs,” instead of turkey.
There are few things more insufferable than unwelcomed busybodies, and these busybodies are part of a giant network of grifters, thieves, and liars who employ previous lies and bogeymen to build new ones.
God has shown us the way, just as He offered the lesson to the Pilgrims.
And, now that people are feasting on leftovers, we can celebrate that these leftovers from history always are valuable and worth sharing.
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