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Why Is Bill Gates Buying Up Farms?

(Economic Policy Journal) Bill Gates is out with a new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. 

He is hitting the talk show circuit promoting the book and the idea that the planet is headed for a major climatological disaster that will end the human species.

Setting aside as to whether or not there is some climatological disaster developing, Gates’ book should really be named “How I Plan to Make Even More Billions By Getting Governments to Fund Every Mad Scheme I Have Invested In”.

Gates would like for you to think of him as the sweater-wearing billionaire next door.

The only association he lists on his LinkedIn page is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In reality, he is running vast enterprises in many sectors of the economy.

He has even invested in a company that is trying to produce lab-made “breast” milk.

He is now the owner of more farmland than anyone else in the United States:

No doubt the plan is to turn the land into producing crops that will be the ingredients of the fake hamburgers that he says rich countries must adopt.

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