If it is true that "you are what you eat," as the old adage has it,
then what does that make us?
As consumers of heavily processed, chemically treated, GMO-infested
gunk, we in the modern, developed world have solved the problem of
hunger that plagued our forebears since time immemorial by handing
our food sovereignty over to a handful of corporate conglomerates.
The result of this handover has been the creation of a factory
farming system in which genetically engineered crops are doused in
glyphosate and livestock are herded into tiny pens where they live
their entire lives in fetid squalor, pumped up with antibiotics and
growth hormones until they are slaughtered and shipped off to the
supermarkets and fast food chains.
There are plenty of documentaries and exposés detailing the dangers
of this industrial farming system that we find ourselves beholden
to.
Any number of activists ringing the alarm about these problems.
Numerous campaigns and marches organized to raise awareness about
these issues.
Yet still, nation after nation gets fatter and sicker as traditional
diets based on fresh produce sourced from local farmers are
displaced by the fast food pink slime sourced from the industrial
farms of the Big Food oligopoly.
But, as bad as things may be, they're about to get even worse. As
crisis after crisis disrupts the food supply, the "solution" to
these problems has already been prepared.
New technologies are coming online that threaten to upend our
understanding of food altogether. Technologies that could,
ultimately, begin altering the human species itself.
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Food As A Weapon
So what is food, anyway?
To a normal human being whose head is screwed on straight, that
sounds like a dumb question. Food is fuel for the body, obviously.
Oh, sure, we could get fancy about it. Scientists might talk about
the caloric content of different foods, or measure their
macronutrient levels.
Sociologists might point to food as the basis
of human community, drawing people together into families, tribes
and communities to break bread and engage in social relations.
Theologians may even discuss the transubstantiation of bread and
wine and the communion with God that such sacred acts of consumption
make possible...
...But then there are the psychopathic would-be world
controllers. These Machiavellian schemers would define food in a
very different manner. To them, food is a very different thing
altogether.
To those seeking to rule over nations, food is a weapon.
For millennia, attacking armies have known that a city can be
conquered by blockading it. Eventually, the besieged city's
inhabitants will run out of food and will either starve to death or
surrender.
The English knew that food was a powerful tool of
control.
They created
the conditions that led to the Irish Potato Famine and then
stood idly by as millions died or were displaced, because - in the memorable
words of Charles Trevelyan, who was in charge of the British
government's response:
"the judgment of God sent the calamity to
teach the Irish a lesson, that calamity must not be too much
mitigated."
But the Irish were neither the first nor the last to
feel the brunt of the British Empire's indifference to their hunger;
just ask
the Bengals about their own famine.
The 20th-century example of this "food as a
weapon" mindset that immediately springs to mind is the Holodomor, a
brazen act
of genocide perpetrated by Josef Stalin's Soviets against the
Ukrainians in order to force through his campaign to collectivize
agriculture in the USSR and to silence the agrarian peasants who
were rebelling against that policy.
The ensuing famine killed
millions of Ukrainians.
But the Holodomor is certainly not the only time
that food was weaponized in the previous century.
Who can forget
arch-globalist Henry Kissinger's National
Security Study Memorandum 200 - Implications of Worldwide Population
Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests?
This
now-infamous document - drafted by Kissinger in December of 1974 and
adopted as official policy by President Ford in 1975 - argues that
since,
"[g]rowing populations will have a
serious impact on the need for food",
food aid to the developing world may need to be tied to
mandatory sterilization programs or population reduction quotas.
Even the coolly calculating Kissinger was forced to concede that
such a scheme would turn food into,
"an instrument of national power."
But that was then.
This is now!
Surely this "food
as a weapon" idea has been retired, hasn't it...?
Lest there be any doubt that food is still being weaponized against us in the 21st century, we only have to turn to
the latest news headlines to see that this idea is far from a relic
of the past.
From the disruptions to the global food supply
caused by the COVID lockdowns and restrictions to the decimation of
the Ukrainian wheat harvest caused by the Russian invasion in 2022,
the shocks to the global food supply chain have contributed to a
doubling in the number of people facing acute food insecurity in
the last four years.
Given this vivid demonstration of just how
fragile the global food supply is and just how much economic and
societal chaos can result from any shock to this system, it would be
unthinkable that governments would now be deliberately attempting
to undermine that supply chain further, wouldn't it?
Well, think again.
From the
Netherlands to Ireland to Poland to Italy to Canada to Argentina
to Sri Lanka, governments are cracking down on farmers, forcing them
to cull herds, lower production, dump milk and comply with onerous
new operating restrictions in the name of reducing pollution.
These governments are not stupid.
Like the
British, the Soviets, the Americans and other repressive regimes
throughout history, they know that these measures, if played out to
their conclusion, will result in widespread hunger and unrest.
In
fact, we've already seen massive protests against these restrictions
in numerous countries, from
Germany to
Italy to
Poland to
Spain to
Panama to
Argentina to
Canada.
And that's to say nothing of the mass
Dutch farmer protests in recent years and Sri Lankans running
their president out of the country when it became obvious that the
government's green policies and farming restrictions had contributed
to the collapse of that nation's economy.
And now, we find that the food supply itself is
under attack.
ANCHOR: 40,000 pounds of
food meant to feed people in a food desert near Maricopa, south
of the valley, is completely gone.
And tonight, investigators are still trying to figure out what
caused the fire.
SOURCE:
Fire at Maricopa Food Pantry destroys 40,000 pounds of food
ANCHOR: Breaking news out of
Pasco County: crews battling a huge fire at a chicken farm. It's
all happening on Cal Main Foods along Simpson Farm Lane in Dade
City.
SOURCE:
Dade City poultry farm fire likely killed 250,000 chickens
ANCHOR: Firefighters trying
to figure out what sparked a fire at a food processing plant on
the west side. It happened around 9.30 last night on Merida
Street near South Zarzamora.
SOURCE:
West Side food processing plant left with smoke damage after
fire, SAFD says
ANCHOR: Breaking news in
eastern Oregon, where crews are battling a major fire at a
potato chip processing plant.
Air 12 flew over the scene at
Shearer's foods on highway 207 in Hermiston.
SOURCE:
At least two people injured in explosion at Hermiston food plant
ANCHOR: Crews were on the
scene of a massive fire at an egg farm earlier this afternoon.
The fire broke out at the Hillendale Farms location on Schwarz
Road. The Salvation Army says around 100,000 chickens may have
died in that fire.
SOURCE:
VIDEO: 100,000 chickens die in Bozrah egg farm fire
A
series of mysterious fires, explosions, incidents of arson and even
cyberattacks on food processing facilities across the United
States in recent years has prompted law enforcement agencies to warn
of a coordinated attack on the food supply.
In April 2022, the FBI even issued an
official notice to private industry warning that,
"ransomware
attacks against the entire farm-to-table spectrum of the FA [Food
and Agriculture] sector occur on a regular basis" and noting that
such attacks are "disrupting operations, causing financial loss, and
negatively impacting the food supply chain."
This mysterious attack has taken place at the
same time as a massive disruption of the global food supply has left
the world one crisis away from disaster.
With
nitrogen fertilizer shortages fueling
food inflation even as governments around the world
crack down on their farmers' use of fertilizers and farming inputs,
and with
war,
drought and
trade disruptions also playing havoc on food production, the
global farm-to-fork system's ability to feed the world's population
is coming into question.
Organic farmers and local agriculture advocates
have been warning about the precarious nature of the global
just-in-time supply chain and its lack of resilience for decades.
But one group didn't just warn about the current crisis, they
predicted it in surprising detail.
In November of 2015 - as you can learn from an official
press release on the Cargill website:
"65 international
policymakers, academics, business and thought leaders gathered at
the World Wildlife Fund's headquarters in Washington DC to game out
how the world would respond to a future food crisis."
Over the course of two days, the participants
in this "Food
Chain Reaction" crisis simulation role-played a response to a
number of converging and overlapping catastrophes in the 2020s,
including,
"two major food crises, with prices approaching 400
percent of the long term average; a raft of climate-related extreme
weather events; governments toppling in Pakistan and Ukraine; and
famine and refugee crises in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Chad and Sudan."
The game - which, we are assured,
"was built over the course of months,
with maximal realism in mind" - went on to envision some very
specific scenarios that bare an eery resemblance to current-day
reality, including "a steep price spike with looming global food
shortages in 2022" that prompted the EU players to impose a tax on
meat.
Lest the meaning of this exercise be lost on the
general public, the World Wildlife Fund went on to spell it out in
their
after-action report on the simulation:
"Only by stopping
agricultural expansion, augmenting agricultural production,
increasing resource-use efficiency, and reducing food waste, can we
provide the food and nourishment we need, while ensuring we are
conserving nature for future generations."
Accordingly, this "game"
ended with the imposition of a global carbon tax.
In February 2024, the European Union
ran its own food crisis simulation.
The exercise - which brought
60 EU and government officials together for a 2-day conference in
Brussels - envisioned a cascading series of food emergencies unfolding
over the next two years, from harvest failures and fertilizer
shortages to popular uprisings and unrest.
The war game
ended, predictably enough, with the government bureaucrats
calling for more centralization of food reserves and stockpiles in
the name of biosecurity and concluding that,
"diets need to shift toward healthier
options and away from meat."
This EU crisis simulation and the "Food Chain
Reaction" exercise, combined with a series of government and
NGO-sponsored awareness campaigns related to food security - including
the Rockefeller Foundation's "Reset
The Table" report calling for further consolidation of the
global food supply and the Chinese government's "Clean
Your Plate Campaign," which aims to bring technocratic
management of the economy into every citizens' dining room - throw the
current round of mysterious and unexplained attacks on food
processors and farmers into stark relief.
Together, these campaigns
and exercises suggest that the current food crisis is not a
naturally occurring event, but a deliberately engineered phenomenon.
But if this food crisis is being
knowingly engineered, the question is why? What could
governments gain by creating food shortages for their own people?
The answer is simple.
We are witnessing a controlled demolition of the food supply chain, one that is
intended to result in the destruction of the current industrial
farming system as we know it.
But this changeover is not intended to
return us to truly sustainable farming practices, with local,
organic farmers producing crops in accordance with age-old
agricultural wisdom.
Far from it...
As it turns out, the "solution" to this food
crisis, the one being proffered by the billionaires of the corporate-pharmaceutical-medical-industrial-philanthrocapital-military
complex, is being engineered in laboratories and sold to the public
via a bought-and-paid-for mainstream media.
One thing is for certain: the future of food will
look very different from anything that we have seen in human
history.
The Future of (Weaponized) Food
Now, anyone who has been paying attention in
recent years will already know the direction that the food industry
is heading.
Yes, by now we all know the
"Eat Ze Bugs" agenda being pushed by
Klaus Schwaub and his Davos
minions.
I guarantee that wherever you are, in whatever corner of
the world you are reading this editorial, you will have seen (or
could easily find) a local news story about high school students
"spontaneously requesting"
cricket powder dumplings in their school lunch or a puff piece
about how valiant scientists are working to save
the world with worm burgers.
And we all know about the GMO problem:
genetically modified organisms making their way into our food
supply.
We know about the multiple health studies that have proven time and time
again the deleterious health effects of GMO consumption.
We know
about the insane
lengths that the GMO giants have gone to to suppress bad news
about their products and the insane
lengths that the press has gone to to assist them in this
cover-up.
And we know about the additional harms that this
technology causes, ruining
farmer's lives, contaminating
the genome of the planet and causing associated products
like glyphosate to further contaminate the food supply and
further endanger our health.
But do we know about the next evolution
in culinary technology?
Now that scientists are playing around with
the fundamental building blocks of life, reengineering organisms at
the cellular level, an entire field of biotechnology is opening up
that is threatening to fundamentally transform what we think of as
food itself.
Moving beyond the simple insertion of foreign
genes into an organism, scientists are now working on creating
foodstuffs from designer microbes, engineering organisms into "bioreactors"
that can be used to grow proteins and other materials for food
production, growing
meat-like products from cells in the laboratory and dozens of
other zany ideas.
NARRATOR: The meat of the
future will likely be lab-grown.
Compared to our conventional
methods of putting meat on the table, lab-grown meat - which
debuted in 2013 - doesn't involve slaughtering of animals, nor
does it require as many environmental resources.
SOURCE:
The Meat of the Future: How Lab-Grown Meat Is Made
HOST: I'm about to be one of
the first people on Earth to eat real chicken grown entirely in
a lab.
That's right, we're talking the most futuristic nuggets
ever.
SOURCE:
Lab-Grown Meat is Here… and I Taste-Tested It!
AMNA NAWAZ: Nearly 90
percent of Americans eat meat as a part of their diet. But
earlier this year the Agriculture Department approved the
production of what's known as cultivated meat.
That is, chicken
grown in a lab.
SOURCE:
How
‘lab-grown' meat is made and will people accept it?
NARRATOR: This machine is 3D
printing steak. The goal is to create a piece of meat without
killing a cow.
And this Israeli startup is one of the dozens of
companies racing to perfect the process.
SIMON FRIED: It turns out
that cows aren't necessarily the most efficient way of making
beef.
SOURCE:
Can Lab-Grown Steak be the Future of Meat? | Big Business |
Business Insider
After a near-decade-long PR
campaign, you've probably heard of Impossible Foods and
Beyond
Meat, companies that employ the latest techniques in chemical
engineering to create plant-based meat substitutes.
But there are
many more technologies around the corner that threaten to transform
our food supply in even more bewildering ways.
Scientists are bioengineering
spores that can be inserted into crops and livestock, allowing
companies to identify and track food products all the way through
the food system, from farm to factory to fork.
VISHAAL BUYAN: We use
microbes as tracking devices. So what we do is we convert data
digital data into strands of DNA.
We insert that little bit of
DNA into a microorganism. A probiotic microorganism, to be
honest.
And then we can sort of apply that organism and sort of
"hitch a ride" on any food or agricultural product or really
anything through the supply chain.
And the reason we use a
microbe to do it is because we engineer it to go into a spore,
so that dormant state allows it to be impervious to high
temperatures and UV light sort of protect that DNA barcode
through transit.
SOURCE:
Eating Bioengineered Spores
DARPA is doling out multi-million-dollar
contracts for researchers to find ways "to turn military plastic
waste into protein powder" for human consumption.
STEVE TECHTMAN: What we're
trying to do is to use microbes to take plastic and other
inedible plant material and turn that into something that's
nutritious.
REPORTER: The idea is to
turn components of plastic into protein and other nutrients
like fats and sugars. If that sounds kind of gross to you,
well...
TECHTMAN: I don't want to
eat plastic either.
What we're trying to do is to take that
plastic and turn it into something completely different.
SOURCE:
Turning Plastic Into Protein?
A company called Amai
Proteins is using genetically engineered microbes to create
peptides that taste like sugar but are digested like proteins, a
process that,
the company brags, allow their product to be legally sold as
non-GMO even though, as they openly admit, these microbes are
technically genetically engineered.
ILAN SAMISH: Then, we grow
the protein.
We biomanufacture it using yeast, just like you do
in a brewery. We harvest the protein to get 100% pure protein.
And last, our ProTaste food technology incorporates the protein
to replace up to 70% of the sugar without compromising taste.
SOURCE:
Sweet Protein | BBC StoryWorks
And then there are companies like
Indigo Ag, a Boston-based agricultural technology company, and
tech companies like EY Global and Microsoft, who are ushering in
The New Normal Of Agriculture by
- as their
thinly-disguised corporate PR masquerading as
"investment news"
likes to boast,
"utilizing advanced AI and machine learning
techniques to create a revolutionary agronomics platform that boosts
farmland sustainability and productivity through next-gen microbiome
treatments, digital regenerative content, time-series
satellite imagery, advanced crop monitoring and data
analysis, and grain quality testing."
NARRATOR: What if you could
predict the best crops to grow using the power of data,
recognize crop disease or pests faster, connect with vendors
seamlessly, doing all this knowing you control your own data?
With data captured from each field and connected to predictive
analysis, farmers have an unprecedented view of their crops.
SOURCE:
Innovating for Agribusiness – EY and Microsoft
Of course, these technologies will be sold to the
public as a way to remarkably improve upon the boring old "food"
that humanity has relied on for untold millennia.
This isn't food after
all, this is Food
2.0!
Molecular gastronomy will allow for the creation
of all sorts of zany and unimaginable dishes, from spherified
juices to deep-fried
hollandaise to lollipopified
octopus!
In the nutrigenomical kitchen
of the future, the AI systems that plan our meals and assemble our
food will be able to precisely tailor our diet to our individual
genome, calculating the exact portions of foodstuffs (or lab-grown
food substitutes) we need to consume to meet our desired health
goals!
And who needs a chef?
In the future, we'll bring
the Star Trekkian idea of the replicator into
reality by 3D
printing all our food right in our own kitchen!
NARRATOR: You're hungry. But
instead of whipping up a meal, all you have to do is enter your
menu choices into a computer and your dinner appears before you.
So magical!
It may seem like science fiction,
but it isn't. Well, not completely. The future is now,
my friends!
Is 3D printed food in your future?
SOURCE:
Is 3D Printed Food the Future?
The propaganda that is being rolled out to sell
the public on this transformation of our food supply sounds like the
sales pitch of a used car salesman.
This should not be surprising.
For those who know the players who are pushing this
"Food 2.0"
agenda and their real intentions, it is obvious that the
enormous and unbelievably hubristic effort to replace natural food
with laboratory-made food substitutes is not about helping the poor
and starving to achieve food security, but rather to deprive them of
the earth's natural abundance.
The end result will be a population dependent on
the laboratory-produced food substitutes produced by a handful of
corporations and a population at the mercy of the scientists these
corporations employ.
These molecular magicians will, after all, be
able to insert all manner of exotic agents into the food supply at
any time.
But to really understand where this
agenda is heading and how quickly we are likely to get there if it
is not opposed, we need look no further than the story of Future
Fields.
This company and its product has managed to combine the
Unholy Trinity of fake food:
MATT ANDERSON-BARON: So,
today I'm here to talk about the humble fruit fly and how one
day it could save your life - and perhaps all of humanity!
So,
science has given us countless medical miracles.
You know:
pandemic-stopping vaccines, life-saving therapies.
But one of
the most impactful things that it's given us and given modern
medicine is genetic engineering of biological systems.
SOURCE:
How can a fruit fly save your life? Future Fields at Collision
2023
Future Fields, a Canadian biotech company, has
notified the
Canadian government of its intention to commercialize "EntoEngine," a type of fruit fly that,
"has been
genetically engineered to express a growth factor isolated from
cows."
This growth factor, it turns out, is an important component
of the lab-grown meat recipe, which has so far required the use of "fetal bovine serum" (FBS)
- a substance extracted from unborn
cattle - to grow the meat cells.
But now that the "EntoEngine"
has been created, Future Fields is excited to use these flying "bioreactors" to produce the growth factor faster and more cheaply
than before.
Yes, from,
cricket
powder dumplings and bug
burgers to GMOs
and
glyphosate to bioreactors and designer
microbes to nutrigenomics and 3D
printed material,
...this is the future of food if the mad
scientists get their way.
But who is funding these mad scientists?
Where do
they get their support?
And what drives these shadowy billionaires
and their non-profit organizations in their quest to reengineer the
world's food supply?
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller family and their namesake
foundation are in many ways the progenitors and the architects of
the Great Food Reset.
From the beginning of the so-called "Green
Revolution" to the so-called "Gene Revolution," the Rockefellers
have been there, helping to move things along with their "philanthropic" donations.
In the 1940s, they founded the
Mexican Agricultural Program in Mexico and the
International Basic Economy Corporation in Brazil, both of which
have been criticized
for hooking farmers on expensive machinery and Rockefeller-supplied
petroleum products.
This formed the basis of the "agribusiness"
concept that emerged, predictably enough, from the
Harvard Business School out of research conducted by Wassily
Leontief under a Rockefeller
Foundation grant.
The Rockefeller's agribusiness model arguably did
more to change the course of human civilization in the 20th century
than anything other than war.
It transformed farming and traditional
agriculture into the business-led, input-intensive industrial
enterprise that it is today, and led to the creation of the global
food supply chain.
But the Rockefellers' influence did not end
in the 21st century.
In 2006, The Rockefeller Foundation co-founded
the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, whose stated goal of,
"elevat[ing] the single African voice" on the world stage is belied
by the fact that over 200 organizations have come together to
denounce the alliance and its activities,
claiming that the group has not only "unequivocally
failed in its mission" but has actually "harmed broader efforts
to support African farmers."
And in 2020 the Rockefeller Foundation
released a report entitled "Reset
the Table - Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System"
calling for a
further centralization of control over the food supply,
including,
"a new, integrated nutrition security
system."
Bill Gates
Having
explicitly cited The Rockefeller Foundation as one of its main
inspirations, it's no surprise that the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation has emerged to become one of the most important players
in the Great Food Reset in recent years.
Gates was an
important early backer of
"Impossible Burger" and its lab-grown
synthetic biology food substitute.
He also provided
capital to Impossible rival Beyond Meat ...until Beyond's
stock began to crumble. Miraculously, the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation Trust was able to divest itself of its Beyond Meat stock right
before the shares tanked in 2019.
And, as PleaseStopTheRide.com has
pointed out,
Gates is also investing millions into "hacking
your microbiome" to reengineer humans' gut bacteria.
Ominously, Bill Gates has also recently become
the
biggest owner of US farmland, a move that allows him
unprecedented control over the future of farming in America.
USAID
Created in 1961 by executive order, USAID is a US
government agency that has participated in subterfuge and
counterinsurgency operations in
Venezuela,
Cuba,
Ukraine and
numerous other countries under the guise of providing
humanitarian assistance and, of course, food aid.
Last year, USAID, in conjunction with "Feed
the Future" (the U.S. government's global hunger and food
security initiative), released a working paper titled "Systemic
Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation."
The
paper argues that:
...a perfect storm of circumstances in
which supply chain issues, regional agricultural and nutrition
challenges, the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and
regional conflict have combined to form a looming food security
crisis.
Their proposal for addressing this (generated)
crisis includes:
-
linking "carbon markets" to "regenerative
agriculture" in a move that continues the
financialization of nature;
-
using ESG
scores as a way to pressure companies into acquiescing to
the nebulous and ever-changing demands of the Food Reset agenda;
-
and, of course, "the promotion of
insects as sustainable sources of proteins."
Throughout the document, USAID's "leverage" over
developing countries is referenced no less than 125 times.
Given the Kissingerian food-as-a-weapon mentality that is the very basis of
USAID and its mission, the document perfectly represents the kind of
Rockefeller-inspired, Gates-funded, USAID-promoted,
agribusiness-based neocolonialism that people in Africa and
elsewhere
have been warning about for decades.
This list of Great Food Reset culprits is of
course incomplete. I haven't even mentioned the participants in the
"Food
Chain Reaction Game" or the "nitrogen reduction" schemes being pushed
by national governments around the world or the Global Crop
Diversity Trust and its ominous Svalbard
seed vault or any of a million other relevant players and
factors in this grand transformation.
But from this (admittedly incomplete) exploration
we can begin to make a list of the types of players that are behind
this push to "transform the global food supply" and better
understand their methods and motivation.
And, armed with that
knowledge, we can start formulating our own plans for
counteracting this agenda.
THE PUSHBACK
Now, if there is any good news to be had
in the sad saga of future (fake) food, it's that the people are
waking up to the Great Food Reset agenda and they are not happy
about it.
For a trivial example of the pushback against the
fake food agenda and the oligarchs stewarding over it, witness Bill
Gates' recent "AMA" (ask me anything) thread on reddit, where one heavily
upvoted question put the issue to America's largest farmland
owner directly:
Why are you buying up so much farmland, do
you think this is a problem with billionaire wealth and how much
you can disproportionally acquire? [sic]
Gates' answer
- employing
the fact checkers' ACKSHUALLY! by pointing out that he,
"own[s] less than 1/4000 of the farmland in the US [sic]" and that
his only interest in farms is "to make them more productive and
create more jobs",
...is to be expected from a man who has spent
billions on PR and propaganda in recent decades to transform his
public image from that a reviled tech monopolist to that of a
revered billionaire philanthropist.
The response to
that answer, however - observing that 1/4,000th of US farmland is
still an incredibly large amount of land and that Gates did
not explain how consolidation of farmland in fewer hands
will transform the agricultural sector - shows that the public is not
buying Gates' PR wholesale anymore.
A less trivial example of the pushback
against Gates and his ilk is to be found in the "Open
Letter to Bill Gates on Food, Farming, and Africa" published
last November and signed by no less than 50 organizations dedicated
to food sovereignty, including the Community Alliance for Global
Justice/AGRA Watch and the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa.
The letter derides Gates' role in "creating the very problem" of
global food shortages that he is ostensibly "fixing," accusing him
of pushing ineffective (but profitable) technocratic solutions
instead of simpler, less expensive agricultural solutions:
There are already many tangible, ongoing
proposals and projects that work to boost productivity and food
security - from biofertilizer and biopesticide manufacturing
facilities, to agroecological farmer training programs, to
experimentation with new water
and soil management techniques, low-input
farming systems, and pest-deterring
plant species.
What you are doing here is gaslighting - presenting
practical, ongoing, farmer-led solutions as somehow fanciful or
ridiculous, while presenting your own preferred approaches as
pragmatic.
Yet it is your preferred high-tech solutions,
including genetic engineering, new breeding technologies, and
now digital agriculture, that have in fact consistently failed
to reduce hunger or increase food access as promised.
The pushback against the transformation of the
food supply is not limited to Gates and his eponymous foundation's
efforts, however.
Resistance against GMO foods, for instance, is
massive. In fact, the more the biotech billionaires try to shove
their genetically modified monstrosities on vast swaths of the human
population, the more the public is rising up to reject them.
In
recent months alone we have seen people rebelling against GMOs in Turkey, Kenya, Nigeria, Mexico, Pakistan and Indonesia .
All of these protests against the Great Food
Reset are hopeful signs. They show that the public are not simply
going to swallow anything that is put on their plate.
But even more important than these
examples of protest and pushback are the things that we can do to
take the Future of Food away from the agribusiness conspirators and
their bought-and-paid-for politicians and put it back in the hands
of the people.
It involves getting our hands dirty and getting
to work... but that's the way it's always been. And the
alternative to this, this working of the land, is, as we have seen,
no alternative at all.
And in the end, the future of food is ours to
decide.
Happy planting!
