Actors

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]

With fellow Billionaire Richard Branson

• Lab-grown meat startup [6] "Clean Meat"

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 [7]
  • Findings [8]

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 [9]

Walmart

• Robotic bees for pollinating indoor farms
• Consolidating supply chain:
  • Opened their own dairy processing plant 2018 [10][11]
  • Opened their own meat processing plant 2020 [12]