The loudest voice telling you to give up beef also owns the farms, funds the fake replacements, and holds the microphone.
Bill Gates is the largest private owner of farmland in America.
It is a sliver of the country's total, and that is the point. You do not need to own much land to decide what the rest of it grows.
Then look at what he funds.
Money into Impossible Foods. A stake in Beyond Meat. A startup growing "butter" from carbon dioxide in a vat, no cow required.
He has tasted that butter and says he couldn't tell the difference. He will presumably still be eating the real thing.
He also funds a vaccine for cattle, to shut down the microbes in the cow's stomach that make methane.
The rumen, the finest digestive system on earth, the thing that turns grass into steak, and the plan is to inject it quiet.
The cattlemen called the idea laughable. The funding rounds did not.
And he said it into a live microphone. All rich countries, in his words, should move to one hundred percent synthetic beef.
Then there is Africa, where his foundation sank close to a billion dollars into remaking farming across the continent.
It promised to double the incomes of thirty million households. It missed. Hunger rose.
It locked smallholders into patented seed and synthetic fertiliser, buried them in debt, and leaned on laws that criminalise saving your own seed.
The farmers there have a blunter word for it. They call it the second colonisation.
So here is the picture.
He owns the farmland. He funds the replacement for what it grows. He funds the vaccine to reprogram the animal. He wrote the sermon that says it is all for the planet. And he ran the trial on Africa's poorest first.
Maybe every piece of that is coincidence and goodwill.
But when one man owns the field, patents the substitute, medicates the cow, writes the gospel, and quietly keeps the real butter for his own table, philanthropy starts to feel like a costume.
He is building the future of food. He has just forgotten to leave you a seat at the table.
@Simonthesmoggie@nmaddo I honestly think they haven’t punished them enough…..
There are more than x3 clubs they spied on…
20 game unbeaten run ? Hmmmm
Demote them to league 1
@Peter39462624@MrJamesMay I worked on a regional secure unit for 32 years,
It can take up to 3 months from admission to assess someone’s mental health status…..
Please, please tell me how the Rozzer’s can do this minutes after a stabbing spree??
I will wait…………
@piersmorgan@LukeTheNuke180 Yeah pure genius !
You would have thought with everything he won in 2025 he should have won young / sports personality of the year award ??
But someone who scored 2 goals beat him to it 🙃🙃🙃
@NoelGallagher Hi Noel,
I was reading your article about No decent live bands now.
Totally agree until I came across these from USA
The band called FEEL
Marshall stacks, Pure raw energy, Zeppelin influenced
We need to get them in the UK
Have a look on YouTube mate…