Following along with save “everything” from human intervention, human intervention will be required: That has become no doubt, an evangelical pursuit.

Is it time to cage humans in their daily persuiit of survival, as a punishment for crimes against animals; and who will decide on that moment in time ? The worthy of course. And who are the worthy to be given the status of judge and jury of our personal freedoms?

It seems to me that major corporations are the high court of our future.
I was surprised recently to be subjected to the third degree of mybwirthyness to be served by a human or a machine.

At the door of the local NAB stands a man whose job it is, is to question customers of their need for a bank of ATM’s or granted an invite to the plush inner sanctum, where bank tellers mouth platitudes such as have a nice day.

Sorry but it hasn’t started off too well.

Dan

Yeah, what a hilarious suprise. Mr "I know better than all those climate scientists" David Leyonhjelm also knows better than vets and biologists!

It's not anthropomorphism but observable, quantifiable distress. One can see the chicken pulling it's feathers out, see the physical effects on the bird, and see the filthy conditions and actually taste the difference in the eggs.

Anyway, in 10 to 15 years I doubt 95% of people will even BUY animal products. We're about to see the biggest change in food in 10,000 years! No beef or lamb or pork or chicken or poultry or fish or dairy. None! Why? Ferming is about to replace farming.

Think of it as electric food that bypasses photosynthesis. Electricity splits water and feeds hydrogen to bacteria - with a few fertilisers. Here's George Monbiot eating a pancake made from the stuff. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet They claim it will scale up to grow protein cheaper than soybeans by 2025, and that it will cook all the proteins and fats and carbs we need, and even arrive in different flavours. They want to cook up an alternative kind of fish-finger with omega-3's, or something like a chicken nugget. It could replace livestock and wheat and corn farms. All that's required are much smaller gardens for fruit and veg and herbs and spices for flavour and texture woven into this factory stuff. It could be the biggest jump in human food since we invented farming 10,000 years ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Foods

I read this elsewhere, and found David Leyonhjelm to be telling it the way it is - as he always does. I learnt a new word for the bleeding hearts; but 'idiots' is easier to remember.

The best laugh is the one about supermarkets, leading price-gougers, pretending it's all about being humane to chooks in order to be 'loved'.

Further to comment of Max Green, in future maybe no food will be ingested orally but some form of nutritious gel will be rubbed on the skin and absorbed transdermally. Mouth, teeth, etc. will atrophy, etc.

WEF - Stakeholder Capitalism - by Klaus Schwab

"The stakeholder concept goes a long way back: more than 50 years. I first wrote about it in 1971, when I was a young business academic. But its roots go even further. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was quite natural for a company and its CEO to consider not just shareholders, but everyone who as a 'stake' in the success of a firm.

That is the core of stakeholder capitalism: it is a form of capitalism in which companies do not only optimize short-term profits for shareholders, but seek long term value creation, by taking into account the needs of all their stakeholders, and society at large."

http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/klaus-schwab-on-what-is-stakeholder-capitalism-history-relevance/

Diver Dan

Talking of banks and ATMs. My usual food shopping yesterday, and I went to the usual ATM for cash. Not working. So, went to the only other one in the shopping centre where I would have to pay a fee to use it - gone, removed.

So, paid for the groceries with the Visa card, intending to get out cash in the afternoon from another ATM I pass on my daily walks. On its screen was a sign saying that 'cash was important, and Amguard was doing its very best to provide it'. It would cost me $3 for the privilege of using the machine.

So, went through the process, hit the final button, only to be advised that 'Your transaction could not be completed'.

All the arseholes from the WEF down will gradually prevent us from using cash no matter what we think; and every electronic transaction will have a fee; and every transaction will be tracked.