Bill Gates’ purchase of huge tracts of land has been linked to fake meat and the Rockefellers

Bill Gates’ recent purchase of vast American farmland is doing more for his bank account than for the planet, a new book claims.

The paper, written by best-selling journalist Seamus Bruner, also argues that the billionaire’s investments in fertilizer and plant-based meats do little to reduce carbon emissions as he claims and come at the expense of everyday Americans.

According to the Daily Mail, the section of the just-released book, Controligarchs, dedicated to this so-called “war on farmers”, details these allegations.

There, Bruner writes about how figures like Gates are monopolizing the food supply with their purchases, paving the way for at least a partial takeover of the US food system, as families like the Rockefellers did in the past.

Citing the Microsoft founder’s recent investments in patented fertilizers, fake meat and some 270,000 acres of American farmland, Bruner writes how Bill Gates – an ardent supporter of climate action – will benefit from his speculation.

“The takeover of the food system, like many of the other control schemes described in this book, began with the Rockefellers and was promoted by Bill Gates,” writes Bruner in his study of the influence of billionaires on Americans.

“Like most of their monopolies – from oil to software and eventually biotechnology – the food takeover aims to control the intellectual property in food production through trademarks, copyrights and patents,” he continues.

He goes on to write about Gates’s alleged connection to the Rockefellers through the Green Revolution, a period of significant increases in food grain production in the United States in the first half of the 19th century.

These achievements, according to Bruner, were only possible thanks to millions of dollars of research funded by Rockefeller in the 1940s, which at the time was aimed at helping overcome the crises of poverty and hunger following the Great Depression.

While Bruner admits that this is partly true, the author goes on to write about how the Rockefellers, now worth an estimated $8.4 billion among 70 heirs, continued to take credit for the fruits of their efforts while deflecting blame for the negative consequences.

Negative factors, he noted, include pesticide pollution and the consolidation of small farms into sprawling enterprises – something Gates’ investment appears to support.

“The Green Revolution provided simultaneous proof that problems such as poverty and hunger could be solved through human innovation, and that solutions such as genetically modified pesticide-resistant crops could create new problems,” Bruner writes.

Citing “pollution, resource depletion, and the consolidation of small and family farms into corporate-controlled giant farms,” ​​the author explains why he believes history is now repeating itself and how he, Gates, is seeking to gain intellectual property for food production from through a number of trademarks and patents.

“Instead of taking responsibility for the new problems,” the book’s author argues, “the Rockefellers took all the credit for the bountiful harvest, blaming the new problems on a convenient scapegoat—climate change.” The oligarchs are now in charge. [Гейтс и другие инвесторы] claim they can solve the climate crisis with new patented miracle products that turn out to make them even richer, again at the expense of small independent farmers.”

Late last year, the Daily Mail recalled, Bill Gates defended his recent interest in agriculture after many accused him of buying “most” of American farmland as part of a plot to cause food shortages.

“I own less than 1/4,000 of the farmland in the United States,” the billionaire wrote at the time, after buying up several thousand acres in 18 states.

In his book, Bruner mentions how Gates has invested millions of dollars in companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods – stocks that are likely to rise in the event of a shortage. He argued that the businessman – the world’s sixth-largest person with a net worth of $115.4 billion – could benefit from his other food-related investments.

“It is not surprising that while peasants are expected to eat fermented mushrooms, lab-grown meats and maggot milkshakes, the ruling oligarchs – with their personal chefs – have no intention of doing the same,” writes Bruner.

“Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are known to enjoy eating beef burgers and steaks when Gates visits his mentor in Omaha,” he then notes, mentioning Gate’s 93-year-old friend and fellow billionaire.

The book’s author adds that Mark Zuckerberg, another investor in alternative protein companies, “loves smoked beef brisket and barbecued spare ribs (from real cows and pigs) and says the meat is “twice as good when you hunt the animal yourself.” to illustrate his belief that billionaires, including Gates, have ulterior motives.

Elsewhere in the book, Bruner comments on Gates’ recent investments in the fertilizer industry and how they stack up against more than $1 billion spent on farms and the new technologies that run them.

The claims come months after a United Nations initiative aimed at “eradicating extreme poverty, reducing inequality and protecting the planet” led to a ban on more traditional and affordable crop nutrients, infuriating farmers.

Bruner notes that restrictions on traditional fertilizers, which farmers believed would ruin them, were introduced only “after Gates and his cronies gained intellectual property on replacement fertilizers.”

“For more than a decade, while he targeted the fertilizer industry, Bill Gates also quietly bought up large tracts of American farmland,” the author claims.

“In total, Gates has spent more than $1 billion acquiring the Agenda 2030 farms and technologies they are now using.” The 2030 Agenda is the aforementioned initiative of the United Nations, notes the Daily Mail.

Bruner continues: “When Gates buys tens of thousands of acres, he’s not just buying land—he’s also buying groundwater rights. In addition to farms (and irrigation) and fertilizer, Gates has been pursuing significant interests in water supply and wastewater treatment—a critical component of desire to control the agricultural industry.”

In a statement sent Tuesday afternoon, a spokesman for Gates criticized the claims, calling them outright “false.”

A spokesman for the billionaire told DailyMail.com: “Bill’s farmland makes up less than 1/10 of a percent of the total land area of ​​the US. For more than twenty years, his investment team has included American farmland in its diverse portfolio. This has been a sound, long-term, value-added investment in agriculture.” and the jobs it creates for families across the country. In terms of return on investment, Bill has promised to give away most of his wealth during his lifetime. Any money raised from farmland and agricultural investments will be returned to the community through his philanthropy and used to projects that have the greatest potential to improve and save lives around the world.”