This is a National Science Foundation newsletter from 2009, it says Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave the NSF $50 Million. This is old news but $50 million goes a long way.
National Science Foundation Announces Partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Foster Sustainable Agricultural Solutions
https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114493&org=NSF
13 years later what does the National Science Foundation do?
Gives $500,000 to University of California Riverside scientist to see whether they can turn edible plants like lettuce into mRNA vaccine factories.
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2021/09/16/grow-and-eat-your-own-vaccines
Now, does this explain why Bill Gates has been buying up all the farm land?
Fair warning, better start growing your own food or you will become a lab rat in the next Bill Gates research experiment.
Percentage!? What the fuck does the percentage matter!? Even at the TINY percentage WHY THE FUCK DOES ONE PERSON own what is a MUCH BIGGER tiny percentage THAN EVERYONE ELSE?
No I'm not making a dumbcunt equity argument.
I'm saying HIS INTENTIONS with the land, depending on what they are, don't require a large percentage. But they apparently require a lot presumably to create an influence in some market.
He's short Tesla $500 million right? Are you going to throw out "oh hey guys that's actually a tiny percentage of the market can't remember where I read that" /...
For all you know his "tiny percentage" of land grows 90% of some one thing that can affect a BUTTLOAD of people.
Or some other scenario like that.
If he's using the land to develop mRNA food-delivery systems then frankly I don't give a fuck if he only owns 1 goddamn acre. He owns too much.
Sorry I'm not trying to attack you or anything you were just stating facts.
But that fact by itself is dumb and misleading and pretty handshake.
250k acres isn't huge. My son in laws small ranch is 35k
Most people don't own even a single acre of land and aren't millionaires like your son-in-law.
That's not his point, I don't think. The point is that Bill Gates only owns like 0.01% of the farmland in the USA, and that's being generous. This is a non story, possibly a distraction.
Actually the point about Bill Gates buying up farmland is that he should be in jail, not buying up food industries to possibly poison the nation with.
Read the material he referenced before making a comment. It's not a distraction, it's a look at the future of food supply in this country. What ((they))have in store for all of us. I will probably be dead by then, sure hoping so.
He isnt a millionaire in the liquidity sense. And, I've spent many 12 to 15 hour day working with him. He can have it. It's a tough lifestyle and you really gotta love it.
That's a mistake most people make. Owning land is a wise financial choice. You don't have to be a millionaire to own stocks, nor to own land.
Point me to 35k acres for less than a million dollars and I'll eat my own hat!
You're right. 900 million acres of farm land in the US. Gates has less than 300k acres. It's just a fraction of a percent. So, there's definite hyperbole in the headline to this post.
NEvertheless, it does make the Gateses one of the biggest private farm land owners in the US. Which is a curious thing. It certainly is a sound investment, but one is tempted to see more than fiduciary motives in these acquisitions.
If he’s experimenting with one raised garden in his backyard that’s too much. Not to say he knows squat about plants and genetic engineering but this sumbeech is WAY OVERDUE to get lynched?!! One eugenicist on this planet is 💯 % too many.
Ok, calm down. Noone wants jabbed and we certainly don't want to eat any crazy shit.
Agreed. And add Ted Turners land holdings and the rest of the top 100 land holders in the US and you are at least 2% of the land in the US. Not to mention the farms they essentially control via other means like stockyards and processing plants. Starts to get pretty scary really quick
Water rights...
ack! we were going to buy a small plot of land in a small town in WA and discovered all the water rights were owned by a corporation that provided tourist housing. crazy! -- to protect the water supply, they said.
I agree...percentage has nothing to do with it. What if the land he owns for farming is hydroponic..they can grow stacks on stacks of produce. And what if they grow something that damn near every hold in the nation buys and eats. Don't tell me they haven't thought of this. How many surveys have you seen over the years that ask such mundane questions as how often do you purchase lettuce or spinach, or strawberries, or celery, tomatoes, potatoes...the list goes on and on. Grow your own food, get a hunting license, fishing license, learn how to wild forage. Save your own ass.
This. or he only needs to grow enough to infect the food supply growing around his farm(s). Say he has 20K acres in the midwest -- corn, potatoes, soy, wheat.... and his crops seed into the other crops, changing them?