Many wonder how and why a software salesman like Bill Gates became a world expert on health, food and agriculture. How a man who made billions revolutionizing personal computing became one of America’s largest private landowners. In his new book, “Controligarcas: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life,” author Seamus Bruner reveals the answers.
Bill Gates may be best known for his role in revolutionizing global technology and digital culture, but in recent decades the tycoon has emerged as a potent force in agriculture and food production.
However, rather than operating out of pure altruism, Gates’ investments in American farmland and fake meat may actually have less to do with “sustainability” and more to do with getting rich through a monopoly on the food supply. And to achieve this he is using a strategy revealed by the landmark antitrust case United States v. Microsoft Corp.
In that famous lawsuit, settled in 2001, the United States accused Microsoft of illegally achieving and maintaining a monopoly in the computer market by imposing restrictions on both computer manufacturers and users, thereby preventing them from uninstalling Microsoft software. This unfairly eliminated competition, prosecutors alleged.
The trial revealed that Microsoft had an internal strategy called “Embrace-Extend-Extinguish.” which Gates has apparently adapted to corner other markets, including agriculture and food.
First, Microsoft would “embrace” or enter a market; web browsers, for example. Microsoft would then “expand” its reach within that market; by installing your Internet Explorer software on each personal computer (PC).
The final step of the process was to “extinguish” (or “exterminate”) the competition; leveraging Microsoft’s market dominance to push regulations and standards that competitors couldn’t afford to meet. The goal was to control the market and profits would follow. (The case ended when Microsoft agreed to change some of its business practices.)
Sounds familiar? It is for the farmers in this country and around the world, who are struggling with new regulations and restrictions on their livestock and the use of fertilizers. Gates and his allies in supranational organizations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos are insistently pushing these regulations and restrictions, with the stated purpose of saving the planet. It’s an ambitious goal, but also quite lucrative.
Gates began the “hosting” phase of his food industry takeover in the early 2010s. Gates became an angel investor in fake meat company Beyond Meat shortly after its incorporation in April 2011. His plan of farmland acquisition in the United States dates back to at least December 2012, according to a dark corporate document presented in his home state of Washington.
His first acquisitions of farmland were third-generation, family-run Coggins Farm and Stanley Farms in Georgia in 2013 and 2014, respectively. The two merged their interests. (thousands of acres in Georgia and Florida) at Generation Farms in 2016.
In 2017, Gates made his largest purchase of agricultural land to date, when it acquired 61 properties in multiple states in a single deal. He cost more than 500 million dollars.
Their farms in northern Louisiana (its largest holding) comprises nearly 70,000 acres and grows corn, cotton, rice and soybeans. Its second largest farm is in Arkansas with approximately 47,000 acres. In Nebraska, Gates’ companies grow soybeans and other crops on about 20,000 acres.
Gates’ 14,500-acre potato farm, called 100 Circles Farm, in Washington state is visible from space and stops at least 1,000 metric tons of potatoes from the ground daily. The farm is a major supplier of McDonald’s French fries and Gates purchased it for $171 million from agricultural conglomerate Conagra in 2018.
Today, Gates is the largest private owner of American farmland, with at least 268,984 acres in 18 states.
While Gates was acquiring huge agricultural properties, he was also investing in fake meat and dairy companies. Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are just two of Gates’ most recognizable alternative protein investments, but there are many others.
Gates has also been expanding his patent holdings. synthetic fertilizer technologies since fertilizer is one of the most critical components of growing food. This was the “welcoming” phase of Gates’ takeover of the food industry.
With patents on seeds, proteins and fertilizers secured, Gates and his partners began executing the final phase of the food procurement strategy. Farmers are now in the “extinction” phase.
Gates has suggested that “regulation” about the meat industry could be a way to “totally divert demand” from real meat. Lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are pushing beef. methane and restrictions on fertilizers, ostensibly to save the planet from bovine flatulence and pollution. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), for example, has long been an outspoken critic of “cow farts.”
TO “sustainability program” offered by a group called Leading Harvest audits farmers’ practices for compliance with new restrictions to save the climate. Gates’ investment company was a partner in the program and all of its farms were enrolled in the program as of 2020.
But the farmers who have produced American food for generations believe that meeting climate change Regulations can be tremendously expensive and can lead to a food crisis. As multigenerational family farms are driven out of business, they risk losing generations of experience, along with a once revered way of life.
And what about the sustainability of these new technologies and meats grown in laboratories? A recent study from the University of California, Davis, has found that fake meat actually it can be worse for the climate that cattle live. But if it’s not sustainability – and it certainly is not the taste —So, what advantages do these new fake meats have?
For a software programmer like Gates, intellectual property may be the key. Patent seeds, proteins and fertilizers indeed grants the patent holder a 20-year monopoly. Patents equal profits and a monopoly equals exclusive access to money.
This is not just happening in the United States; It’s happening all over the world. Gates and his globalist allies in the WEF are trying to end family competition by pushing to regulate and restrict tried and true methods of food production around the world.
Peasant protests in countries like Holland, Canada and Ireland (who recently announced the imminent massacre of 41,000 and 200,000 cows) show that the takeover of the food industry is a global problem.
To date, Gates has spent more than $1 billion on his American farmland and fake meat investments alone. Furthermore, the foundation of it has passed many plus billions advance research into the technologies in which you personally invest. And even more money is spent pushing the narrative that his investments will save the planet.
In total, Gates and his foundation’s total funding for their global food and agriculture agenda exceeds $11.7 billion.
The benefits of these investments for Farmer Gates could be enormous.
Seamus Bruner is the author of Controligarcas: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life and Peter Schweizer Research Director at the Government Accountability Institute of Florida. FOLLOW IT: @SeamusBruner.
