Seeds . . . Seeds . . . Seeds

Bill Gates not only owns the most farmland in America, he has also taken control of the global production and warehousing of seeds. pic.twitter.com/XEAFfsdzSG

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) January 22, 2023

Vandana Shiva on Bill Gates

I am sure that you've seen her before, somewhere online.  Her name is Vandana Shiva, and she is a seed activist and has fought against Bill Gates in India and won.     

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— nikola 3 (@ronin19217435) October 13, 2022

How did Bill Gates come to exert such power? 

Bill Gates did not invent anything.  The basic program was made by some Mathematics professors.  The Office Operating system was [made] by a software engineer and he bought it for $50,000.  He's built an empire by creating patents on software.  And the first WTO meeting in Singapore (December 1996) gave him tax concessions, which is why all the IT industry moved to India.  The fact that Silicon Valley became India's Silicon Valley is because they could save $40 billion dollars annually.  It was an outsourcing of software, all for Bill Gates.  With this accumulation of money and making any communication system illegal, like the communication system through real currency [cash] and forcing digital payments, he's the one who gains because all of the software for all the digital economy, he collects rents and royalties on that.  And then he started to put some of his money in "philanthropy," and everyone thinks, "Wow, he's such a generous man."  He gives so much.  But I've done an analysis in the book.  Every place he gives to is his future markets.  

Can't be certain, but I think that "the book" she refers to is her latest to be released on October 27, 2022, titled Terra Viva: My Life in a Biodiversity of Movements. 

She is quite the critic of Bill Gates.  

Does Bill Gates Want to Denude Food?

Vandana Shiva is excellent.  She really gives hope to the fight and the future for happiness and peace.  Find more of her interviews here, and find her documentaries here.  A Wikipedia entry on the International Rice Research Institute and its "golden rice," referenced by Shiva, is summarized here:  

IRRI is pursuing the development of "golden rice." Geneticists inserted a gene into the rice plant that allows it to produce beta carotene, which makes its grains yellow. Because the human body converts beta carotene to vitmain A, golden rice has the potential to dramatically improve the lives of millions of people around the world, particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia, where vitamin A deficiency is an especially common malady that can cause blindness and increases the risk of death from disease. Children are particularly vulnerable; according to the World Health Organization, "An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 vitamin A-deficient children become blind every year, half of them dying within 12 months of losing their sight". In August 2013, anti-genetically modified organism protestors broke into IRRI's research facilities and destroyed field trials of golden rice.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supports IRRI in its development of golden rice.