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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Who’s gonna stop them?
its called free enterprise
Time for a return of victory gardens to help fight the fascists.
We can feed ourselves, just like we can pump all the oil we need. The question is: Why don’t we?
Why is a foreign country allowed to buy up American farm land and meat packing plants ummmm
Does the article mention that there are approximately 900 million acres of farm land in the US?
Which ones? The ones in Moscow or in DC?
Absolutely, and don't forget to call it Conservative 101. Should the day come when the despotic communist Chinese can't conspire with the mastermind of vaxxine slavery, I'm surrendering my Republican credentials.
If you’re being serious, you’re an idiot.
bttt
But we have to fight and die for the Ukraine! Being enslaved is worth it if we can save the Ukraine! If my children are killed overseas or starve to death at home it is will be a noble sacrifice because the Ukraine is far more important than the American people.
Control Control Control
When I’m at the range, there’s only one gun that disrupts my concentration and you have a very nice picture of it. I swear the shingles flap from the recoil.
Well In the past, Free Enterprise could/would not sell stuff or let US land be bought by Communist China or the Soviets.
So there to your “free enterprise” statement.
Rapidly pushing us toward the Gates of Hell.
Control Control Control
Harumph!
Jeffrey Epstein affiliate Billy Gates - bump for later...
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