An Historic Moment in Agriculture
Did you know that… the Brazilian farmer is a hero? That despite all the ideological persecution, he has put Brazilian agriculture on the world stage as vast storehouse for the future? he feeds our population with plentiful and increasingly inexpensive food? Moreover, that he produces a surplus, making our country the second largest grain exporter in the world? he produces 75% of all orange juice sold in the world and 40% of all coffee? That he is the biggest exporter of soybeans in the world? That he is responsible for 40% of all sugar exported in the world and produces the equivalent of 500,000 barrels of ethanol per day? he owns the world’s largest commercial cattle herd; is the world’s largest beef exporter and the second and third largest exporter of pork and poultry? he employs about 17 million people and is expected to generate over 6 million jobs, or 34% of the jobs that will be generated throughout the Brazilian economy from 2010 to 2022? he is responsible for a trade surplus of over $400 billion dollars over 10 years? And that thanks to agriculture and cattle-raising, not only has Brazil paid back the IMF, but it has built up foreign currency reserves of $300 billion dollars, and,
all things considered, is weathering relatively well the economic crisis plaguing most of the world?
according to FAO, Brazil is the country with the greatest potential for agricultural growth in the world? And that it is the country that can best meet global food needs over the next 40 years?
between 1975 and 2005, in the city of São Paulo the cost of an average supermarket food cart fell over 5% per year in real terms? That an average Brazilian family used to spend 48% of their income on food and now spends only about 20%? That all this is thanks to technological progress in the field of agriculture and its practical application by Brazilian farmers?
our farmer is responsible for the rise of many people from the lower to the middle class? That thirty years ago, minimum wages bought 70% of a food cart; but that today the same wages buys two carts worth of food? That as a result, the middle and working classes were not only able to consume more and better food but increased their buying power so as to be able to acquire industrial products as well?
Therefore, it is unacceptable for Brazil, which already has the world’s largest conservation area, to curtail its production capacity and thus reduce its ability to help fight poverty worldwide.
Thus, we would like to know why Brazilian farmers are persecuted so much? Do you know why?
The Myths of “Environmentalism”
Did you know that…
global warming is a myth with no scientific basis? That it is disputed by the world’s most renowned scientists? That climate change’s track record disproves CO2-related warming?
CO2 is the gas of life? That it produces neither pollution nor the trumpedup greenhouse effect? That it is a natural gas responsible for plant growth? That if CO2 were eliminated from the atmosphere, all life on Earth would cease?
with two eruptions in the 20th century, the earth’s volcanoes released more sulfur dioxide than the whole Industrial Revolution from the 19th century to this day?
icy Greenland got its name because during the beneficial MWP (medieval warm period) it was once a “green land” where crops and pastures flourished? That actually, temperatures in Europe were once higher than they now are? That grapes were cultivated in northern England?
a standing mammoth was found frozen in the glaciers of Siberia with remnants of grass between its teeth?
James Lovelock, the father of the 'Gaia hypothesis', has recanted? That besides making his mea culpa, he has acknowledged that ecologists spread a false alarmism? That in 2006, Lovelock went so far as to say that billions of men would die before the end of the century and the few that would survive would remain in the Arctic, where the climate would still be tolerable? That now he admits that he went way too far? In his own words: “The problem is that we don’t know what the weather will do. Twenty years ago we thought we knew. This led us to write some alarmist books – including my own – because it seemed obvious, but it did not happen.”
the book, The Population Bomb, published by ecologist Paul Ehrlich in 1968, when the world population was 3.5 billion, predicted that, as a result of overpopulation hundreds of millions of people would starve to death in the following decades? Paul Ehrlich’s 1971 prediction that “by the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be merely a small group of impoverished islands inhabited by some 70 million hungry people” turned out to be false? the world population has doubled and the alarmist predictions of Malthus and Ehrlich never materialized? That instead, the percentage of undernourished people in developing countries, in relation to the total population, has shown a steady downward trend for four decades, dropping from 33% in 1970 to 16% in 2004? That this is thanks to new technologies and the exponential growth of productivity? Arctic sea ice melted between 1920 and 1945, when man released into the atmosphere less than 10% of the carbon he now emits? That one cannot deny that global temperatures over the past 100 years have had a cyclical increase in the order of .7 °C? That this happened as a result of natural processes, not because of man’s impact on the amount of vegetation and the burning of fossil fuels? Prof. Henrik Svensmark stated: “In fact, global warming has stopped and a cooling period has started. No climate model had predicted this cooling of the earth, quite the contrary. This means that projections of future climate changes are not reliable.” Consequently, we want to know what is the real reason behind this ecological panic that costs billions of dollars and, even worse, threatens to paralyze Brazil’s future and halt the enrichment of its population.