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* Funding a GMO cow [http://www.gmo.news/2018-02-07-bill-gates-is-backing-a-quest-to-create-a-genetically-modified-super-cow-to-produce-genetically-modified-milk.html]
 
* Funding a GMO cow [http://www.gmo.news/2018-02-07-bill-gates-is-backing-a-quest-to-create-a-genetically-modified-super-cow-to-produce-genetically-modified-milk.html]
 
* Starting AgOne in 2020 [https://www.grain.org/en/article/6389-gates-ag-one-one-more-push-to-get-farmers-into-high-tech] because "we aren't getting new ag tech into small farmers fast enough" [https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/GatesAgOne_OverviewandFAQ.pdf]
 
* Starting AgOne in 2020 [https://www.grain.org/en/article/6389-gates-ag-one-one-more-push-to-get-farmers-into-high-tech] because "we aren't getting new ag tech into small farmers fast enough" [https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/Documents/GatesAgOne_OverviewandFAQ.pdf]
* Funds [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDZVexL3RQ event 201], which predicts an outbreak of coronavirus and cascading failures in supply chain  
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* Funds [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBDZVexL3RQ event 201], which predicts an outbreak of coronavirus and cascading failures in supply chain [http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/recommendations.html]
 
* Buying up ($171m) Washington farmland [https://www.landreport.com/2018/09/bill-gates-pays-171-million-for-washington-farmland/]
 
* Buying up ($171m) Washington farmland [https://www.landreport.com/2018/09/bill-gates-pays-171-million-for-washington-farmland/]
  

Revision as of 00:12, 26 February 2020

Assembling intel.

Bill Gates

  • geoengineering with David Keith at Harvard
  • Funding a GMO cow [1]
  • Starting AgOne in 2020 [2] because "we aren't getting new ag tech into small farmers fast enough" [3]
  • Funds event 201, which predicts an outbreak of coronavirus and cascading failures in supply chain [4]
  • Buying up ($171m) Washington farmland [5]

George Soros / John Podesta

  • Funds Podesta's Center for American Progress, which in turn hosts the Food Chain Reaction game, simulating a global food supply falters after climate change/epidemics wreak havoc [6]

Jeff Bezos

  • Amazon
  • Buys Whole Foods Aug 2017 as retail
  • Funds (heavily) Plenty, vertical indoor farms -- as well as investing in similar operations in China
    • Plenty now sells greens via Whole Foods [8]

Walmart

  • Robotic bees for pollinating indoor farms
  • Consolidating supply chain:
    • Opened their own dairy processing plant 2018 [9][10]
    • Opened their own meat processing plant 2020 [11]