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Jeff Story's avatar

The Cubans did it after the fall of the USSR when the Yankees tightened the embargo. Someone needs to be accountable. Iran has provided the offramp. The US needs to pay reparations, turn over the criminals, get out of West Asia for good. Time to face that music.

Mike Rube's avatar

The wealthy regard this as trimming the surplus.

avril's avatar

A sad reflection on the effects of globalisation and the move from organic farming to chemical fertilisation of the soil. Small scale farming is sustainable and not reliant on outside chemical supplementation of the soil. As always we learn too late the effects of the constant push towards growth and colonisation.

Kollibri terre Sonnenblume's avatar

A sobering reminder about the brittleness of our current system

Kylie's avatar

Time to go back to Poo and learn to wash our veggies properly again!

Sly's avatar

With gates's nanotechnology and the way he wants to control people, they just inject our plants with whatever they want to poison us with , I don't eat processed food , but that doesn't mean that I'm not eating poison fresh fruits and veggies , double edged sword once again ......🤔

Kylie's avatar

Unfortunately…Those food chemical companies are BIG BUSINESS, that is not strictly supervised or controlled. In most civilised countries ingredients…(including chemicals) are fully listed on labels so shoppers can decide for themselves weather to go organic or not. ( of course that doesn’t stop the price of organic being higher!🙄)

Sly's avatar

Nanotechnology , to me is the the devil's seed , it's in everything, it's true their pricing the low income out of food , the ones that could turn the tide on all of this , are the ones who work for these people, just fuckin take em out , then impeach pumpkinhead 🤔

Patricia's avatar

This is where “Eat the rich” becomes a real thing. Not directly because…yuck! but dried blood is an excellent nitrogen source, potash is a little trickier but kelp and alfalfa are not mined renewable sources (but that requires time) but no lack of phosphorus, bc, well, their ground up bones are an excellent source. Tellin ya, Eat The Rich slogan was invented by a farmer…🤭 We cld set an income level as potential fertilizer targets.

Kathy's avatar

Ewwwww Patricia 😂😂😂

Kathy's avatar

Ewwwww Patricia 😂😂😂

Moebius Infinity's avatar

Fertiliser is not required if you do old skool farming based on natural cycles.

Ohio Barbarian's avatar

A superb analysis about a literally life of death topic, thanks.

Gas Axe's avatar

🏆 article.

Most of the staple foods you eat are GMO seeds. They don't grown using organic farming techniques. I have tried and it was a total fail. They require sterile soils and chemicals to grow, flower and fruit.

Even the bananas you eat are now GMO.

Truly organic farming is rare.

I need a license that costs $7000. It comes with inspections and it's very easy to lose this license to call the produce certified organic.

A simple oil leak in a machine can be an excuse to pull the license and certification.

Big spray in the living space on the farm has to be non toxic.

Infestations are challenging to get rid of and we have lost crops to them because there is no know non toxic way to rid them.

Michael Scott Gary's avatar

Ladybugs eat aphids.

Dragonflies eat mosquitoes.

There are many ways to farm using Permaculture techniques, and stop using chemical growing methods.

Bees are being destroyed all over earth due to Neonicotinoids.

Wheat is dried with a dissonant called glyphosate, which is Round-Up & it is proven that it causes cancer.

Industrial Agriculture must end.

Michael Scott Gary's avatar

...dessicant, not dissonant.

This app needs an edit function. Please.

Killer B 🐝's avatar

Don't we understand if he's going down everyone will feel it he doesn't care who he hurts

Michael Scott Gary's avatar

Soybeans add nitrogen to the soil.

Next year corn grown on that land uses the nitrogen.

Alternate soybeans & corn...

Patricia's avatar

This is where “Eat the rich” becomes a real thing. Not directly because…yuck! but dried blood is an excellent nitrogen source, potash is a little trickier but kelp and alfalfa are not mined renewable sources (but that requires time) but no lack of phosphorus, bc, well, their ground up bones are an excellent source. Tellin ya, Eat The Rich slogan was invented by a farmer…🤭 We cld set an income level as potential fertilizer targets.

SUS it Out's avatar

Very cool article. we need more people talking about what matters.

I too have a blog wherein I get people accustomed to climate and sustainability in 3 min reads twice a week, So they at least understand the basics to follow the conversation

Wrote about the big bad methane and what is it that makes it worse especially due to some agricultural practices with some cool facts! Hope it’s interesting

https://substack.com/@susitout/note/p-193457928?r=3pcwen&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

john smith's avatar

The war in Iran sparks a global fertilizer shortage and threatens food prices

Aniruddha Ghosal And Allan Olingo

Associated Press

https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-fertilizer-exports-farming-3b7c92d58dba0817c3aa8f1db47464b7

john smith's avatar

How Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz could devastate global supply chains: Simulation reveals how the blockade could affect exports worth up to $1.2 TRILLION

06:48 EDT 20 Mar 2026, updated 10:29 EDT 20 Mar 2026By WILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15663863/Iran-closure-Strait-Hormuz-simulation.html

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Strait Of Hormuz Closure Brings Empire To Brink

Kit Klarenberg

Mar 24

https://substack.com/@kitklarenberg/p-191857011

FreeGaza25's avatar

Iran has the right to defend themselves against the colonial foreign aggressor!