by Janet Levy, American Thinker:
Besides ‘degrowth’ and ‘net zero,’ one other dangerous buzz phrase being bandied about by proponents of the Great Reset is “nature-positive food systems.” The stated goal of moving to new food systems is to reduce nitrogen emissions, livestock production, and meat consumption. This is to be achieved by consuming plant-based products, lab-grown foods, and insects (as a source of protein). The moot question, however, is whether such a change is at all necessary?
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The U.N., the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and other NGOs would have us believe so. These institutions are controlled by the global elite, who aim to create monopolistic markets for themselves and enslave people, turning them first into captive consumers without choice, and eventually, without free will. So, the U.N. and its co-conspirators have manufactured a food crisis, and by linking it to their other fabrication — an exaggerated climate crisis — they are using it to reset the world’s food system.
Their plan to “transition to net zero, nature-positive food systems by 2030” translates into a war on traditional farmers. Unable to absorb the added costs of new regulations and controls, small, independent producers are being squeezed out of farming. Their place is being taken by multinational agribusinesses. Unchecked, these multinationals will dominate farming in a decade or two.
Were this to solve the problem of global hunger, there might be some reason for those who oppose the transition to make concessions. But the evidence is to the contrary. For several years now, the Gates Foundation’s Alliance for A Green Revolution (AGRA) has been coercing farmers in Africa to give up traditional seeds and crops and use commercial seeds and synthetic fertilizers. Over those years, the lot of Africa has worsened: the percentage of the population suffering from moderate to severe food insecurity has gone up from 51% in 2014 to 66% today.
In 2021, an alliance of African leaders of faith and farming called on the Gates Foundation to stop promoting harmful programs such as AGRA. Fletcher Harper, director of GreenFaith, an international network, said,
The plan of displacing millions of small-holding farmers using an industrial monoculture approach to farming, lacing the soil and water supplies with toxic chemicals, and concentrating ownership of the means of production and land ownership in a small elite is an immoral and dangerous vision that must be stopped.
In other ways, and in other places, too, elements of the Great Food Reset are being proved wrong or counterproductive. Gates — who, incidentally, is the largest private landowner in the U.S. — has been promoting synthetic meat, and says “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef.” He has invested heavily in plant-based meat companies, and touted fake beef as a solution to “climate change” and “environmental degradation.” Ironically, fake food is not only associated with health problems, it leaves a much larger carbon footprint. A report from Navdanya, a seed and food sovereignty initiative, lays bare his hypocrisy.
In 2021, Sri Lankan president Gotobaya Rajapaksa banned synthetic fertilizer and pesticide imports, forcing farmers to go organic — ostensibly to mitigate health and environmental impacts. In six months, rice production dropped 20% and tea production 18%, precipitating an economic crisis and widespread hunger. A massive people’s revolt ended the damaging policies.
In 2019, the Dutch government decided to take “drastic measures” to reduce nitrogen emissions from agriculture. In protest, farmers in 2,200 tractors made their way to the Hague. A farmer-citizen movement (BBB) fought the government plan to reduce livestock numbers and buy out thousands of farms. The movement achieved significant clout, and later that year, won a majority of seats in the upper house of parliament. Former U.S. president Donald Trump praised the farmers for opposing the Dutch government’s “climate tyranny.”
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