Gates' GMO Microbes

If GMO food concerns you, imagine if Bill Gates gets his way with GMO microbes. No longer just the genetically modified plants, but upsetting the vast array of natural microbes that inhabit the soil.

It’s become clear that current farming methods have been steadily depleting the soil and adding more and more chemicals to make up for the soil losses isn’t economically viable or healthy for anyone.

Food supply is currently the biggest disaster facing humans, but we humans have a hard time mobilizing until the crisis is in our face. Soil scientists agree that we’ve only got about 60 years of arable land left. That’s almost like tomorrow, in the time it takes to change massive systems like farming.

Regenerative agriculture scientists have made tremendous strides in helping farmers learn how to farm more sustainably and profitably with few or no chemicals. The problem is that there’s no money in it for big industry.

Enter Bill Gates, longtime proponent of intervention technologies. Why work with nature when man can do it better? The success of the computer remains his big achievement to date, but when it comes to fooling nature, even Gates is about as smart as an ant. But that won’t stop millions from filing into line and following along.

Gates has been buying up farmland in the US at a feverish pace and is now the largest individual farmland owner, currently estimated at 242,000 acres, or almost 400 square miles, and made it clear that his view of the next generation in farming will be GMO microbes.

Genetically modified microbes aren't all that new. It’s clear we have the capability to change them, but every attempt to commercialize them has met with objection, due to the abundance of unintended consequences. Questions around downstream health consequences to humans, animals and the environment are met with silence. No one is looking at them and unfortunately no one even has the ability to measure them. It would take a far more sophisticated approach than EPA, FDA or USDA employs today, and we’ve seen how far they lag behind already. In the name of progress and cost cutting, government agencies have essentially handed the approval process over to industry. The fox has literally built the henhouse.

In spite of legitimate concerns and unanswered questions, industry has an impressive track record of forcing their ideas forward through government approvals. So we shall see how this evolves in the coming months and years. Gates will no doubt follow the chemical companies with a promise to “feed the world”, something that resonates with us all. Who needs to hear or know more than that? Unfortunately based on what little we know today, we should expect a world with even more childhood and adult disease, as hard as that is to imagine.

Photo Saman Javed, UNILAD https://www.unilad.co.uk/technology/bill-gates-is-now-the-biggest-owner-of-farm-land-across-whole-of-us/