Posted on 08/09/2022 3:32:00 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Microsoft, Inc. MSFT +0.71% + Free Alerts co-founder Bill Gates is well known for his philanthropy and his crusade against climate change. The billionaire recently came under severe criticism from a fourth-generation farmer in South Georgia for his farmland ownership in the U.S.
Will Harris, who owns a 152-year-old family farm named White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, said he has concerns about Gates controlling farmland. His thoughts came in the form of an open letter to Gates posted on his Facebook page, as first reported by PJ Media.
“Just like I don’t want a child abuser controlling even one child, I don’t want him to control a single acre,” said.
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The Georgia resident didn’t like the way how Gates’ land acquisitions were kept secretive. He noted that a May 4, 2021, article revealed that the billionaire has purchased 200,000 acres of land in 18 states, but Georgia wasn’t listed among the states.
(Excerpt) Read more at benzinga.com ...
Mr Farmer SIR, can you let me know 24 hours in advance when he is going to be there? I am just curious, and I hope to be completely unobtrusive, maybe even not seen at all. I just want to see the Great Man, if even from a distance.
I think I almost rather have the DMV control the farmland than the man that is responsible for Windows. The DMV is slow but it works.
I don’t know how you would stop a US citizen from buying up land and using it as he deems fit, even letting lie in fallow.
Do you think Bill Gates cares about your property rights? I don’t think he does,really.
BG owns 6000 acres down the road from me. So far the managers are doing a fair to midland job.
I know he doesn’t. But the Constitution doesn’t give a fig about whether or not you’re a convert. It only cares about bestowing your rights, however you choose to use them.
I haven’t understood what the big deal was from the start!
It is not even that much land! My family owns FAR more land here in Texas!
Why is Gates buying up all this farmland around the country?
That’s what I want to know.
To let it lay fallow when food supplies tank and people are starving from lack of food in stores. Population control.
Billionaire Gate$ of Hell has nefarious intentions.
not unconnected:
7 Aug: Daily Mail: How Britain’s farms are being devastated by corporate giants covering up their carbon footprint - by planting millions of trees on fields grazed by sheep for centuries
By HARRIET DENNYS
Sadly, there has been no happy ending for Ian, Rhiannon and their three small children. Their attempt to buy 260 acres at Frongoch Farm came to nothing when they were outbid, not by fellow farmers, but by a giant private equity firm based 160 miles away in the City of London.
A firm that intends to cover the farm with nothing more edible than trees.
Up and down Britain, the price of agricultural land is soaring as financiers and corporations attempt to ‘offset’ their carbon emissions by snapping up farmland and covering it with forest to soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
From Yorkshire to Shropshire, Somerset and Devon, farmers and land agents report that farm after farm has been converted to woodland at the behest of major companies, charities, wealthy landowners and celebrities.
This is on top of other environmental projects such as ‘rewilding’, which are also eating into Britain’s capacity to grow food.
Heathrow Airport, Marks & Spencer, lingerie brand Ann Summers, funeral provider Dignitas and High Street bank TSB have all backed tree-planting schemes to compensate for the pollution they cause. Music label Universal – home to Rod Stewart and The Rolling Stones – is planting trees on sheep pasture in Cumbria...
The backlash, led by locals, farmers and MPs, has so far been fiercest in Wales and Scotland...
The carbon offsetting boom has been boosted not just by profits from selling tractor-loads of timber but by a new and highly lucrative market in trading the ‘carbon credits’ the trees generate...
The taxpayer provides further incentives, with landowners handed thousands of pounds in government subsidy schemes to plant trees instead of growing food...
George Dunn, of the Tenant Farmers Association, is involved in cases in Yorkshire, Shropshire and East Sussex. In all three counties, he says, attempts are being made to cancel tenancies and take the land back for tree planting or for green initiatives such as solar panels and windfarms. Rewilding is another problem, he says...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11087995/How-Britains-farms-devastated-corporate-giants.html
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