Posted on 07/21/2022 9:10:53 AM PDT by george76
The United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for sustainable development informs government policies to restrict farming and transform the food systems in different parts of the world, said Alex Newman, an award-winning international journalist who has covered this issue for over a decade.
The 2030 Agenda is a plan of action devised by the United Nations (U.N.) to achieve 17 sustainable development goals (SDG). The goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development were adopted by all UN member states in 2015.
Then-Secretary General of the U.N. Ban Ki-moon called the 2030 Agenda “the global declaration of interdependence,” (pdf) Newman said in a recent interview on EpochTV’s “Crossroads” program.
“In my opinion, [it] was a direct swipe at our Declaration of Independence … So instead of being independent nations, we will all be now interdependent.”
The 2030 Agenda “covers every element of human life, every element of the economy,” including global wealth redistribution not only within the nations but also among the nations, Newman commented. The Agenda “specifically says that we need to change the way that we consume and produce goods,” he added.
Goal number two on the 2030 Agenda deals specifically with food, Newman said.
In September 2021, the U.N. held the Food Systems Summit, which emphasized the need “to leverage the power of food systems” for the purpose of achieving all 17 sustainable development goals by 2030, according to a U.N. statement.
“Everyone, everywhere, must take action and work together to transform the way the world produces, consumes, and thinks about food,” the statement said.
Taking Over Farmland..
The sustainable development agenda emerged in the 1970s when the United Nations tried to define it at a conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 1976. Newman said.
The conference, which was the first U.N. Conference on Human Settlements known as Habitat I, adopted the Vancouver Declaration (pdf), a report that provided recommendations for U.N. member states.
Newman quoted an excerpt from this report: “Land cannot be treated as an ordinary asset controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social injustice.”
Newman said that, in his view, the U.N. ultimately wants to get rid of private land ownership. “We see this all over the world. This is not just happening in the Netherlands.”
He thinks that a war is taking place against farmers and ranchers, especially those who are independent or those who are not part of the system. “They want to remove small farmers, even medium farmers, from their land, and they want to bring it all under the control of these—I think there’s no other term to describe it—fascistic public-private partnerships.”
Newman noted some examples to illustrate his opinion: The Chinese regime forces peasants to move to megacities, farmers are killed in South Africa, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the United States proposed a new rule that could bankrupt small and medium farmers.
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In March 2022, the SEC proposed a regulation that “would mandate publicly traded companies to report on their carbon emissions and other climate-related information,” as well as report similar information from any companies with which they do business, according to an SEC statement.
As a consequence, all companies in the business supply chain of a publicly traded entity would have to report their carbon emission and climate-related data.
U.S. Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) led 30 lawmakers to urge SEC to repeal its proposal, calling it a “regulatory overreach.”
”Imposing regulatory overreach on farmers and ranchers falls outside of the SEC’s congressionally provided authority,” the senators said in a statement. “This substantial reporting requirement would significantly burden small, family-owned farms.”
The American Farm Bureau Federation said in a statement that the proposed rule could create “substantial costs” for farmers because they do not have teams of compliance officers or attorneys like large corporations. Moreover, it may push out of business small and medium-sized farmers and force food-processing companies to look for agricultural raw products outside of the United States, the statement asserted.
Centralizing Food Supply..
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“If you control the food supply, you control everything,” Newman said.
“One of the things that the communists loved to do is create scarcity and create dependents. As long as you have independent people who are able to take care of themselves, there really is no need for the government to run your life and to control everything that you do,” Newman said.
“Americans are good examples,” Newman continued. “As long as the food production is widely diffused, and it’s in the hands of independent producers, it becomes very difficult to get people to bend to your will.”
The whole idea of using food as a weapon has been a hallmark of communist regimes for 100 years, Newman explained. “It’s also been a hallmark of the very same people who are openly promoting the U.N. Agenda 2030, the sustainable development goals, and even the World Economic Forum.”
Those who contrived “the controlled demolition of our food supply … want to completely restructure it,” in order to gain total centralized control of that because it gives them absolute power over everybody under their jurisdiction, Newman said.
For example, the Chinese regime and the mega-corporations formed a public-private partnership to centralize control of the food supply, Newman said.
It’s similar to what occurred in Nazi Germany, where on paper private companies own the business and ostensibly manage their businesses, but, ultimately, the private companies will be taking their orders from the government, Newman explained.
In the United States, the ESG metrics are used to “hijack control of the business sector, of the individual companies, and put them at the service of the goals of what I call the predator class—the people behind the World Economic Forum, behind the United Nations,” Newman said. (ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance criteria that are used to evaluate companies on how compliant they are with sustainability.)
The food supply centralization is just one component of their agenda, but it is a very critical one, which along with energy and other things, allows them to control humanity, he added.
World Economic Forum Involvement..
In January 2021, the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the government of the Netherlands launched a new initiative called Food Innovation Hub, according to a WEF statement. The Hub, joined by several public and private sector partners, is a key platform that will use technology and innovations for food systems transformation, the statement said.
The Food Innovation Hub secured “multiyear funding “ from the Netherlands’ government and established its Global Coordinating Secretariat that would coordinate the efforts of the regional food hubs as well as align with global food processes and initiatives such as the UN Food Systems Summit, the statement read.
The global food Secretariat would be located in Wageningen, Netherlands, at the heart of the Dutch agrifood ecosystem, and would direct the development of global, regional Food Innovation Hubs, according to the “Invest in Holland” website.
“The work of these regional hubs is already underway, with more than 20 organizations leading the initiative across Africa, ASEAN [Association of Southeast Asian Nations], Colombia, and India, and the European hub,” the website said.
Ramon Laguarta, CEO of PepsiCo, said in the WEF statement: “Food is one of the main levers we can pull to improve environmental and societal health. With the right investment, innovation, and robust collaboration, agriculture could become the world’s first sector to become carbon negative. … Unlocking this potential will take ambitious multi-stakeholder, pre-competitive collaborations to transform the food system—exactly what these Hubs are designed to cultivate.”
Among the solutions advocated by the WEF to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions is replacing livestock-derived foods with alternative forms of protein, such as insects, and lab-cultured proteins, according to a 2019 white paper (pdf) commissioned by the WEF.
In response to this recommendation, several indoor agriculture start-ups have emerged, including Ÿnsect, “the first fully automated vertical insect farm in the world, able to produce 100,000 tons of insect products a year,” a WEF report said.
In March, France-based Ÿnsect acquired Jord Producers, a U.S. mealworm manufacturer, to expand its operations in the United States by entering the American chicken feed market, said a company statement.
How People Can Stop Food Takeover
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If people want to prevent food supply from being used as a tool to control them, they need to find alternative sources of food locally, Newman said. “You need to have a relationship with the local farmers in your community, get to the local farmers market, deal with the local farmers, come up with some agreement,” such as getting delivery of fresh, seasonal produce from the local farms for 100 bucks a week, he said.
“We need to really start providing an alternative economic structure, because if we let them get control of the entire food supply, I guarantee you, it will be used as a weapon to take your freedom, to get you to do things you otherwise wouldn’t want to do, to undermine the sovereignty of your nation, whether you’re in the United States or another country, and ultimately to dispossess people of their private land and of their freedom.”
“If you have agricultural land, do not sell out to these people. They’re trying to bribe the farmers to leave their land.”
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Collectivist sons of bitches.
Totally unaccountable. They will never be called to account for it. And it is going to happen.
It is all part of the plan. But try explaining it to libs or to the ignorant (but, I repeat myself). You become a conspiracy theorist and a whacko.
I’d like to be added.
The UN has no power to enforce this in any country. Notice this bit from the OP?
The Food Innovation Hub secured “multiyear funding “ from the Netherlands’ government and established its Global Coordinating Secretariat that would coordinate the efforts of the regional food hubs as well as align with global food processes and initiatives such as the UN Food Systems Summit, the statement read.”
The Dutch government is pushing this. No other country is obliged to follow suit and ruin their own farmers. If pressure builds in the EU from countries in favor of it, the EU may try to enforce it. As it stands, only those countries who *want* to follow this path and signed up to it will do so. Countries that have no desire to enact such measures are not obligated to follow it.
The people of The Netherlands voted these yahoos into office. If they don’t like it, they can vote them out again.
The idea of interdepence has been around for several decades, but seldom seems to make it into news stories. Behind a lot of the trade agreements and other entanglements of international agreements is the idea of interdependence, that all nations will become interdependent, or dependent upon each other, and then peace and harmony and mutual and coequal interests will create the one world utopia.
Such thinking was used to help justify all the trade agreements that have helped turn Red China into the richest and most dangerous communist nation in history.
And such thinking also leads many Americans and other westerners to believe that surrendering our independence for this international interdependence is the way to go in the future.
Unless we fully discredit and destroy the current administration, and prevent their return- EVER- that will no longer be an option.
You are added. Thanks.
Thanks. You are added.
Overpopulation hasn’t led to famines as predicted. They want to reduce the population of the world by any means possible. Artificial famine will work and can be blamed on overpopulation since we have been conditioned to expect it.
Stevie Wonder and myself saw this coming 30 years ago.
I don’t raise cows anymore; my masochism has taken a turn...
Here’s a nice little slide...https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_WP9uxAak&feature=share
The good fight of faith and freedom is ALWAYS an option and a DUTY.
The counsels of war breed timidity. Patriots only have to decide to overthrow the unconstitutional portion of the federal government. The WILL to do so is our greatest obstacle. After that, we’ll find way.
“international regulation”
That’s just the front, it will actually be a feudal system with a few powerful people at the top controlling everything.
And this is one way it will happen. High Tech, PATENTED, Indoor Vertical Farming.
Infographic from just one such company, AeroFarms.
AeroFarms sells ay Walmart, Stop n Shop, Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh. Other Indoor Vertical Farming companies include 80 Acres who already sells in hundreds of Kroger stores, AppHarvest tomatoes can be found at Kroger, Meijer, and Walmart, Bowery Farming who's products are sold through Walmart, Amazon Fresh, Safeway and Acme among others.
Another way it will happen is CRISPR Cas9 Gene Edited livestock(Epoch Times) which, like the plants grown in vertical farms, will be patented. Then you have Cultured Meat, also patented. Monsanto put a lot of farmer's out of business with their patented GMO seed and made a lot more farmers poorer once they had the soy/corn market cornered because their patented seed is expensive and it has to be purchased every year because you're not allowed to save their seed for next year's planting.
The UN always had their plans but couldn't do much with them until recent years when Tech billionaires got involved. The WEF is the major think tank for these rich techies and are on board with the UN Agenda.
Kill off traditional farming and change it to High Tech Patented farming owned by the self appointed masters of the globe.
Quoting again: “We need to really start providing an alternative economic structure, because if we let them get control of the entire food supply, I guarantee you, it will be used as a weapon to take your freedom, to get you to do things you otherwise wouldn’t want to do, to undermine the sovereignty of your nation, whether you’re in the United States or another country, and ultimately to dispossess people of their private land and of their freedom.”
The so-called global elites want billions of people to starve!!!!
They are even WORSE than Stalin!!!!
We MUST re-elect Donald Trump and utterly destroy these globalists’ evil plans!!!!
Americans still have too much to lose. When that changes, the landscape will appear much different.
Bkmk farm
It could very well be that there is no "there" there and this is all cosmetics.
Designed as just another program that the useful idiots will get behind, fund and accept at face value so those who dreamt up the scheme can take their skim and feather their nests with it.
Just as plausible given how the UN works.
Klaus, E S & D
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