We are staring down the barrel of a confluence of several scenarios–each of which individually is a significant, life-changing event–but which are together conspiring is a dangerous and incendiary situation: food shortages, inflation, and a breakdown of the supply chain. A new media narrative today acknowledges food shortages, and blames animal agriculture, indicating we are reaching an inflection point in the collapse. Expect things to accelerate from here. Let’s have a conversation tonight about where we are, where we’re heading, and how to prepare.

In the latest blow to global food production, Taiwan is diverting water from rice farms to semiconductor factories to keep the iPhones & car chips flowing. “The Taiwanese public appears to have decided that rice farming is less important, both for the island and the world, than semiconductors.” Only a system run by technocrats could value global cellphone production over local food security. Christian from the Ice Age Farmer broadcast breaks it down.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Taiwan has decided to shut down their farms in order to keep the iPhones flowing. That's right. They're redirecting irrigation water from the rice farms and traditional farming and ranching over towards their semiconductor industry, which creates the chips needed for iPhones and MacBooks. And many cars, right? 

You've read about the supply chains collapsing, and auto manufacturers having to shut down their manufacturing, because they can't get the integrated circuits, they can't get the chips needed for those cars to drive. And so there's a lot of pressure from around the world right now on Taiwan who manufactures 90% of those semiconductors, to get that pipeline back up and running so much pressure, in fact, that Taiwan, as I said, is now shutting down their farms taking that water over to make the chips as we read here, the Taiwanese public, I'm not sure it's their decision appears to have decided that Rice Farming is less important for the island and indeed for the entire world than semiconductors. 

The heavens above, or economic forces indeed, technocrats are telling the farmers it's time to find other work. And thus yet another country falls prey to this global agenda to shut down food production to make countries unable to feed themselves. As we enter this new normal. And welcome to it. We need to talk about this. 

I'm Christian, and this is the Ice Age farmer broadcast. 

And from the New York Times we read drought in Taiwan pits chip makers against farmers. The island is going to great lengths to keep water flowing to the all important semiconductor industry, including shutting off irrigation to 10s of 1000s of acres of rice fields. Gripped by drought and scrambling to save water for homes and factories, Taiwan has shut off irrigation across 10s of 1000s of acres of farmland. Although authorities are compensating growers for the lost income. Some farmers are worried that the forded harvest will drive customers to seek out other suppliers, which means we're going to lose years of future business here. This is not something you can just turn off and on like this. The government is using money to seal farmers mouth shut, just like we're hearing from the 30 by 30 plan here in the United States. 

Some background more than 90% of the world's manufacturing capacity for the most advanced chips is in Taiwan. It's run by a company called TSMC, which has deals with Apple and Intel and many other big names. The government has tried various measures including cloud seeding, geoengineering. In recent months, the government has flown planes and burned chemicals to seed the clouds above reservoirs. It's also built a desalination plant and a pipeline. It's ordered industries to cut use and get this. It's also reduced the water pressure in some municipalities, and even started shutting down water supplies for two days each week. 

That's right, we need our iPhones so bad. We got to get these things, these vaccine passports out to all 7 billion people. You don't really need to shower on Tuesdays and Thursday. You don't need to wash your dishes. You just wait till tomorrow, we got to make some iPhones. This is we have we are really that far down the pipe. 

But the most sweeping measure has been the halt on irrigation, which affects 183,000 acres of farmland. It's about 20% of Taiwan's irrigated land. The government has justified this by saying "Well, we're already in a drought, so we're probably going to have a pretty bad crop anyway. So let's just forget about it just shut down the farms completely. And let's divert this scarce water to our factories instead. Instead of having bad production out of both sides of the equation."

In farming towns near Tainan, many growers say they were content to just be living off the government's dime, at least for now. we clear the weeds and drink tea and go on long bike rides. Yep, farms are shut down. I'm not just saying that it's not rhetoric. These guys are idle, their fields are fallow. The Taiwanese public appears to have decided that Rice Farming is just less important. Fertilizers more expensive, pesticide is more expensive. Being a farmer is truly the worst. That is by design. This is an attack on farming and ranching. 

Now, if this were happening in a vacuum, as these farms dried up, and Taiwan's ability to feed itself was lost, you might just say, Well, this is just one case where we really it's a tough call, but we really need our iPhones. The The problem is that this is a systematic attack around the world on farming and ranching we've already discussed at length, the 30 by 30 plan here in the United States, which in the words of one Kansas farmer, 

"What's this gonna do to the family farms and ranches that have been around for centuries. It's going to destroy them."

Yes, designed to shut down farming and ranching, it's happening around the world. In fact, the very same thing is happening here in California, where because of another we've had a very dry winter, two of them in a row. And so the federal government has decided to cut to zero allocations for farmers in the Central Valley. There's no water for you, you don't get to water your crops, no water will be delivered, until we figure out how much we can deliver. That affects 750,000 acres of crops who, and you can read from farmers who say, look up, I just gonna go I'm gonna be forced to give up on 105 acres of asparagus, and I'm not even a plant, not gonna bother planting my 200 acres of melons.

This is an attack on the food supply, and it's happening around the world. We also saw in Australia, where water has been terribly mismanaged. And a lot of it was sold off to China - that the rice production collapsed. Usually they get 600 to 800,000 tons of rice per year. And they only eked out 54,000 tonnes, it's like 6% of what they're supposed to get. We've had two of the smallest rice crops in Australia in the last seven years, we're only growing five and 5% of what we would normally grow. So our stocks are very low. 

We're not trying to fearmonger and neither am I ladies and gentlemen, but this is really happening. But I think it might be a bit of a wake up call to see what happens when our supply chains are tested. And that is happening now. In fact, Vietnam, the world's number three exporter of rice, right, again, I'm talking about the bread baskets that usually produce a surplus and then feed the rest of the world. 

Vietnam number three on that list for rice has been forced in order to control domestic food prices to go buy rice from India. This is the second time we've seen this happen in the last 12 months. Turning to grains, we now read from Worldgrain.com grain export restrictions I've been covering for the last year that as supplies have been dwindling around the world. And this is why it's dumb for Taiwan to say we'll just let them we're going to focus on semiconductors. And we'll let the rest of the world feed us because as supplies have dwindled, countries start taking steps to protect their own food supply. They impose extra tariffs, extra export limitations, they stop giving people their food. 

And so now from Worldgrain.com, we see that this is actually having a profound effect on other countries. Naturally, grain export restrictions are taking a toll. Grain export restrictions embarked on by Russia and Kazakhstan, but I will add also, by Brazil and Argentina and Ukraine, there are many others. During the first few months of the COVID pandemic brought a hiatus upon the food supply chain in many countries in 2020. The Khazak export restrictions had the potential to doom the country's neighbors to starvation.

These are not words that one throws around lightly. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a collapse in global food production, a shutdown in multinational trade, and a systematic attack on farming and ranching around the world. New export restrictions, more and more everyday, are continuing to drive prices up. Russia is now considering another wheat export tax to try and keep their exports suppressed. The introduced export tax is likely to curb these figures, you can say that it's working. And all this underscores that as food prices continue to explode through the roof as Rabobank said, at biblical levels of supply shortages for food, that that countries should be doing everything they can to bolster production, not thinking up new reasons to shut it down.

Not deciding that semiconductors should be the preferred industry, not imposing new taxes and regulatory structures on people that farm wild rabbits. Here's a piece out of New Zealand, where there are people that make a living just by going out and trapping wild rabbits and then selling them to restaurants. But they keep raising the amount of paperwork and the cost for registering and for getting meat inspected. And so they're being gradually driven out of business. It's not one isolated case, it's a theme. 

Here in the US again, groups are petitioning the EPA to regulate dairy and hog farming emissions, because we want to shut down animal agriculture. And we also just saw the FDA classify a recent outbreak of E. coli is something that should have been a reasonably foreseeable hazard due to the fact that you were growing your leafy greens outside and there was a cattle field nearby. So you were outside, and there were animals nearby. And this is dirty and dangerous. 

This finding on April 6, just now from the FDA basically codifies what I've been saying, which is they are moving the goalposts they are shifting traditional farming and ranching. If you can't just shut it off by turning off the water. They're now classifying it as dirty and dangerous. Right. We also saw Australia classify manure as a highly toxic industrial byproduct. It's incredible how rapidly this is all being deployed. Indeed, they told us we would have vertigo during this decade of action leading up to 2030

"Resetting the food system from farm to fork. This is the vertigo. The dizzying feeling of counting up together to 2030."

But this finding from the FDA sets the stage that you can't grow food outside anymore, because doing so is a reasonably foreseeable hazard. Now you have to be moving into the indoor vertical farms and the lab grown meat. And all of that, of course jives with the recent edict that Biden put out that says the USDA needs to be driving towards a, you guessed it a net zero carbon emissions future. That is, he's requested that they develop a plan. It's due in the next couple of months here to talk about how agriculture could be moved to a net zero carbon future - the absolute zero, absolute slavery. Please see my recent report about absolute zero. And why it means a complete shutdown of economic and human activity and a total control over everything.  But that's where they're trying to get. That's what they're telling us right now. 

So ladies and gentlemen, with food prices exploding, it is imperative in with the White House warning that we have massive inflation approaching. It is incumbent upon all of us to start growing our own food and raising our animals. Right now, there's a whole bunch of news, this inflation news I'll save it for a different report. But I wanted to just share this news about Taiwan because it really is emblematic of how food production is systematically being shut down. And we all need to start growing now. 

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The billionaires behind Agenda 21, who control the UN and the World Economic Forum want to have zero carbon emissions by 2050 and they mean business.

They are already phasing out gasoline and Diesel engines, they want to end the commercial airline industry, transoceanic shipping; to end all small farms and the farming of animals.

The Ice Age Farmer tells us, “You’re going eat bugs and lab-grown ‘clean’ meat. You’re going to up-cycle food that was food waste and you’re going to eat that, too now. Circular economy, there’s no such thing as garbage, we just turn it into something else, now.

“You’re going to have a social credit score based on how well you perform. If you take your vaccines and if you don’t throw away too much food, based on all that surveillance and based on your Sunday worship of Gaia, then maybe you’ll get a little bit of fake meat this week, some of the Soylent Green.”

There is an army of tens of thousands of technocrats executing on every single vector of this, as we speak and the Biden administration is working furiously to implement it all.

The Ice Age Farmer shows us all of their reports and initiatives, showing us how they plan to make it happen, so that we can figure out how to stop them.