Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 29AUG22

How “Organic” Farming Destroyed Sri Lanka, “Ifs” Aren’t a Strategy, Tim Ryan, & more w/ Torben Halbe

Your Heard Tell for Monday, August the 29th, 2022 is turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need to discern the time we live in as we talk about the midterm elections and how some of our progressive friends are upset that Tim Ryan, one of the Democrats “five to flip” senate candidates is running a more moderate campaign in a state that is trending red, we’ll talk about political reality versus social media purity tests. Our guest today is biologist and author Torben Halbe, who joins us to explain how the decimation of Sri Lanka’s economy started in large part with horrible agricultural policy. Torben explains how the immediate and overnight regulation for “100% organic farming” was a catastrophy for farmers, plunged the whole country into a food crisis, and exacerbated the economic collapse and currency crisis. Torben also breaks down how outside influences and world organizations prey upon countries like Sri Lanka where they can enact their policies and ideas easier than in the politically more difficult west, bringing a new bureaucratic colonialism to struggling economies…