The New Colonialist Food Economy
by Alexander Zaitchik, September 18, 2023

How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South.

This past summer, the global trade regime finalized details for a revolution in African agriculture. Under a pending draft protocol on intellectual property rights, the trade bodies sponsoring the African Continental Free Trade Area seek to lock all 54 African nations into a proprietary and punitive model of food cultivation, one that aims to supplant farmer traditions and practices that have endured on the continent for millennia.

A primary target is the farmers’ recognized human right to save, share, and cultivate seeds and crops according to personal and community needs. By allowing corporate property rights to supersede local seed management, the protocol is the latest front in a global battle over the future of food. Based on draft laws written more than three decades ago in Geneva by Western seed companies, the new generation of agricultural reforms seeks to institute legal and financial penalties throughout the African Union for farmers who fail to adopt foreign-engineered seeds protected by patents, including genetically modified versions of native seeds. The resulting seed economy would transform African farming into a bonanza for global agribusiness, promote export-oriented monocultures, and undermine resilience during a time of deepening climate disruption.

Read the full story  The Nation

Russia Goes All-In On Organic Food And Bans GMOs
by Jacob M. Thompson, June 30, 2023

"[The average American is an] intensively vaccinated borderline autistic fat man slumped in front of a screen battling a high-fructose corn syrup comedown," said a Russian government official

While the United States has fully embraced genetically modified organisms (GMO), and an abundance of pesticide and agrochemical laden crops and livestock, Russia has been working nearly a decade to go purely organic in the country, ostracizing Western foods and brands.

PUTIN CONSIDERS GMO GROWERS TERRORISTS https://www.bitchute.com/video/556ZdWopT8e5/

The WinePress touched on this move in a report published last year, titled, "As Media Declares "Global Hunger Crisis" Media Blasts Organic Farming, Looking To Implement Gene-Edited Foods;" which noted how the media warned that the Russia-Ukraine war would lead to all kinds of food and fertilizer shortages, due to the restrictions imposed by the West, but mainly because of Russia’s attack, pundits and ‘experts’ asserted.

Moreover, as I noted in that article, the media and scientists took the opportunity to blast organic agricultural practices, claiming that it is too expensive and cannot yield enough food. Howbeit since Russia was working hard to go and maintain their organic practices, the pundits and experts took potshots at the Eastern giant. Instead, scientists and other publications took the opportunity to plug gene-edited crops – a step above traditional GMOs – that would truly allow for some "Frakenfoods" in the truest sense of the phrase; allowing crops to be weather-resistant, generate its own vitamins without the sun, prevent molding, and so much more; and advocating that Europe and the West hop on this bandwagon, once again blaming organic activists for getting in the way of "progress."

Read the full story  The WinePress

Bill Gates Is Funding A Scheme To Cut Down 70 Million Acres Of Forests In North America
by Rhoda Wilson, September 6, 2023

This article was originally published by Rhoda Wilson at The Daily Exposé.

SHTFplan EDITOR’S NOTE: You can’t make this up! There are literally climate change Nazis who want to cut down trees to save the planet and limit climate change.

Bill Gates and other investors are betting Kodama Systems can reduce carbon dioxide in the air by chopping down and burying trees. The move will see 70 million acres of forests, mostly in the Western United States, cut down over the next decade.

After cutting down the trees, Kodama plans to bury them – to reduce global warming. However, "global warming" is a scam to enable the rich to become richer and the real reason for the destruction of forests is to reap saleable carbon offsets.

Read the full story  Activist Post