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Mike Bloomberg says that Farming is for dumb people?
« on: February 22, 2020, 05:44:28 PM »
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    •  Is farming the career for dumb people? What Mike Bloomberg doesn't know...
    Posted: 22 Feb 2020 03:36 AM PST


    DAILYKENN.com -- What does he know? One may ask. 

    Mike Bloomberg took heat from the media after he said he "could teach anybody to be a farmer" but information technology required "a lot more gray matter."

    The quote is from 2016. 


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    Billionaire Bloomberg claims he "could teach anybody to be a farmer," even implying that farmers don't have the same level of "skillset" or "grey matter" as folks in tech jobs.

    So demeaning, elitist, and out-of-touch it's appalling. pic.twitter.com/Auplmdq56m
    — Anna Kelly (@AnnaKellyWI) February 17, 2020

    Bloomberg was simply out of touch with reality. 

    The former New York City mayor may consider visiting any major university where food production technology is researched and taught. What he will learn is that GPS and computer technologies have merged allowing high-tech farmers to set their combines on autopilot while they harvest crops with amazing accuracy and efficiency. Every inch (literally) of the farmer's fields are mapped including width and depth. 

    Bloomberg may also want to take a fact-finding trip to Israel. Here he will learn that Israel is helping feed the world by using gray matter. 

    Here's what he can learn from israel21c.org ▼

    1. Israeli advancement in drip irrigation and micro-irrigation technologies are being used around the world. 

    2. Israeli-developed GrainPro Cocoons provide a simple and cost-efficient technology utilized by African and Asian farmers to eliminate unnecessary waste due to early spoilage. 

    3. Technology has been developed to reduce fruit-fly infestation from 95 percent to 5 percent on third-world mango farms. 

    4.  Israel's massive precision ag-tech sector involves more than 450 companies that offer advanced data-collection and analysis technologies. The net result is more efficient and effective farming that feeds more people. 

    5. Israeli technology that breeds mites and insects for biological pest control reaches around the globe. 

    6. Technology that extracts water from the air reduces the water requirement for crops by about fifty percent. 

    7. Dairy farming has gone high-tech, thanks, in part, to Israeli gray matter. Robotic, computer-driven milking systems allow milking and post-milking procedures that are cost-effective, productive, and efficient.

    8. Fish farming has gone high tech and is eliminating the antibiotics and other additives that steer consumers towards costly wild grown fish. 

    9. Israeli companies are marketing hardy seeds around the globe, a hat-tip to farming gray matter. 

    10. High-tech packaging developed in Israel helps preserve food between harvests and consumption. 

    11. Gray matter is feeding the world through Israeli produced protein products without raising blood sugar or insulin levels. 

    12. Israel is also helping to feed the world by sharing its innovation through global training. 

    While in Israel, Bloomberg may want to invest some of his billions in that nation's blossoming food technology industries. Being a Jєω, Bloomberg reportedly has the option to become an Israeli citizen without red tape or green card. So, he may also want to invest in a mansion by the Mediterranean as a permanent residence and let Donald Trump run the country.





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    Re: Mike Bloomberg says that Farming is for dumb people?
    « Reply #1 on: February 23, 2020, 10:44:42 AM »
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    • I am quite sure that many on this board have an issue with saying anything good about Israel, but I don't think anyone can dispute admiring intelligence and ingenuity wherever you find it.  Yes, they seem to have farming in adverse conditions down to a science.  That's a good thing.

    You cannot be "dumb" and be a successful farmer.  It requires being able to observe rapidly changing phenomena and detect minute differences in things such as soil, climate, plant growth, the health of one's animals, disease control, and many other things.  It is a sophisticated applied science.  There is a stereotype that farmers tend to be laconic and inarticulate, but so are many other people who work in specialized fields --- they've got more to do, and more to think about, than talking and expressing themselves well on an academic level.  As anyone who has ever failed at academic life will not hesitate to tell you, there are many different types of intelligence, and "book smarts" are not everything.
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    Re: Mike Bloomberg says that Farming is for dumb people?
    « Reply #2 on: February 23, 2020, 11:11:13 PM »
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    • Mr Bloomberg has been in the city for too long. He thinks that milk comes from a bottle.
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    Re: Mike Bloomberg says that Farming is for dumb people?
    « Reply #3 on: February 24, 2020, 06:48:18 AM »
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    • Bloomberg (Doomberg) used to be a republican.  
    He is part of the dumb atheist nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr of elites who look down on not just farmers but average middle class.  Many Democrats and Republicans in DC think that the average American are dumb deplorables.  
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    Re: Mike Bloomberg says that Farming is for dumb people?
    « Reply #4 on: February 24, 2020, 08:03:52 AM »
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    • Bloomberg was born at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, in Brighton, a neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, on February 14, 1942, to William Henry Bloomberg (1906–1963), a bookkeeper for a dairy company,[2] and Charlotte (Rubens) Bloomberg (1909–2011).[3][4] The Bloomberg Center at the Harvard Business School was named in William Henry's honor.[5] His family is Jєωιѕн. He is a member of the Emanu-El Temple in Manhattan.[6] Bloomberg's paternal grandfather, Alexander "Elick" Bloomberg, was an immigrant from Russia.[7] Bloomberg's maternal grandfather, Max Rubens, was an immigrant from present-day Belarus.[8][9]
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    Re: Mike Bloomberg says that Farming is for dumb people?
    « Reply #5 on: February 24, 2020, 07:59:20 PM »
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    • Quote from: poche on February 23, 2020, 11:11:13 PM
    Mr Bloomberg has been in the city for too long. He thinks that milk comes from a bottle.
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    Re: Mike Bloomberg says that Farming is for dumb people?
    « Reply #6 on: February 24, 2020, 11:29:07 PM »
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