Posted on 03/13/2022 2:16:14 PM PDT by Starman417
I am really starting to despise Bill Gates.
The code writer turned virus expert turned climate expert turned China ally is buying up farmland at an alarming rate.
Nick Estes puts a point on itThey own the soil where the potatoes in McDonald’s french fries grow, the carrots from the world’s largest producer and the onions that Americans sauté every night for dinner. But they’re far better known for their work in tech and in trying to save the climate.
Bill and Melinda Gates, who recently announced they’re getting divorced and are dividing their assets, are deeply invested in American agriculture. The billionaire couple, in less than a decade, have accumulated more than 269,000 acres of farmland across 18 states, more than the entire acreage of New York City. The farmland was purchased through a constellation of companies that all link back to the couple’s investment group, Cascade Investments, based in Kirkland, Washington.
The principal danger of private farmland owners like Bill Gates is not their professed support of sustainable agriculture often found in philanthropic work – it’s the monopolistic role they play in determining our food systems and land use patterns.Indeed. Gates has his foot on the synthetic beef gas pedal, and some think he plans to destroy our way of life. You can catch the Gates' candy-coated version of it here.
He's not alone in the pursuit of farmland monopoly. China is also in the hunt.
In less than a decade, China's stake in American farmland has grown exponentially. Records from the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act show that Chinese acquisitions "rose from less than 10 annually" before 2008 to "12 to 25 each year during 2008-13." In 2007, China bought six farms, all in California. The next year, they had bought 30 outside California, in Arizona, Texas and Missouri.It's getting scary.This strategy, outlined in an official Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 2013 food security initiative, encourages Chinese companies to gain greater control over agricultural supply chain imports. Moreover, Beijing has backed up this priority financially, utilizing its assorted state-connected financial institutions. The Agricultural Bank of China has stressed that it has "fully met the financial needs of the 'Going Global' of enterprises in agricultural cooperation."
The biggest Chinese agricultural investment in the U.S. came in 2013, when the Bank facilitated the largest acquisition of an American company to date: the $4.7 billion purchase of Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork producer, by the Shuanghui Group. The 146,000 acres of land that Shuanghui thereby gained made it one of the largest foreign owners of U.S. property.NPR:
Higgins says that this kind of consumption of farmland by foreign entities is starting to cause concern. "One of the main reasons that we're watching this ... is because once a foreign entity buys up however many acres they want, Americans might never be able to secure that land again. So, once we lose it, we may lose it for good."It's said that China wants to solidify a food supply chain. Supply chain- that might sound familiar to you.His other concern is that every acre of productive farmland that is converted over to something other than agriculture is an acre of land that no longer produces food. That loss is felt from the state level all the way down to rural communities, where one in six Ohioans has ties to agriculture.
These two stories alone are bad enough but there is a glue that binds them.
Money. Bill Gates is no longer pro-America. Gates no longer considers himself an American but rather a transcendent world citizen. He, though, is an overt ally of China.
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Which ones? The ones in Moscow or in DC?
Yes.
In my small hometown stores would be closed one afternoon a week so the gardens could be worked. It was a good idea.
Someday they’ll go to far! Then!
its called free enterprise
with a nation that has as it’s foundational goal and statement of overthrowing the world’s governments to bring under the rule of the CCP.
Patton would call that treason.
But ,,,you do you.
Bill Gates never had an original thought. He stole ideas from others and repackaged it as his own. If anyone deserved “cancelling” it is this clown.
A few hundred thousand acres sounds like a lot but it really isn’t.
The failed code writer, turned code thief, turned virus expert, turned climate expert, turned China ally ...
It's not an article.
It's some retard's blog post.
A self-appointed "author" who cannot get hired by anyone.
Thanks.
Bkmk
What? Victory gardens went somewhere?
Whew! I just looked out the window - mine is still there.
Even though I'm just getting started for the year.
Just 10 tomato plants of two varieties, 8 pepper plants
of two varieties, 10 trays of leaf lettuce of two
varieties, zucchini and basil. All in containers -
no digging up of the lawn required.
Truth be told - my plants are still indoors - I am just
preparing the containers / tomato cages / pest-repellent
fencing, etc.
I'm expanding a little over last year - what with inflation
and all - but not by that much. If I had more room,
and less arthritis, I would do more - much more.
Those foreign lands can be “nationalized” at the drop of a hat. Ask Germany about its US properties during 2 world wars.
270,000 acres covers 422 sq. miles.
Yowzaaa, that is, 640 acres equals 1 square mile.
The sooner Gates is stuffed away, the better.
Your tomato plants are also indoors?
Tomatoes are notorious water guzzlers, but there may still be some spillage. What do you do about any water run offs?
I like growing tomatoes, but those bushes can become very demanding. Sort of like that Venus Fly Trap in the Steve Martin movie. Insatiable!
Everything is a blog to grumpygunner
500 yards away from his creator. Anytime someone wants.
The problem with aristocrats, is it's too easy for them to decide they have more in common with foreign aristocrats, than with common citizens of their own country.
The trays sit on top of that. I try not to be a klutz when watering.
Works just fine.
These are the exact ones I'm using -
You Americans will comply and vote the way comrade wants. Or we ville cut off your food.
Yep. It’s called context. If it was putting buying the land many here would be ok with it.
Remember in the 80s when Japan was buying everything up?
Argh! Putin
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