Last week, Trump signed an executive order to support regenerative agriculture, yet the whole ordeal is slightly confusing. Before that, the Supreme Court ruled that you cannot sue pesticide companies for causing devastating things like cancer.
But the Regenerative AG EO that was signed, and what is listed on the USDA website, is quite vague. It doesn’t completely specify what regenerative agriculture means for the bureaucrats, except for a few points that stuck out to me:
Emphasis on using precision technology to reduce chemicals (important, but in this article, I’m going to show what this actually links to)
Using New Approach Methodologies to develop new chemicals for AG. This is known as NAM, and is done by using AI, putting organic matter with a microchip, and other methods. The positive is that it does reduce animal testing.
Introducing public-private partnerships so shareholders can invest more.
Utilizing the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (I’ll share a little more on down)
There was no actual verbiage stating that they hope to use regenerative agriculture to heal the earth, provide cleaner food, cleaner water, more green spaces, etc. It was all in support of introducing more technology.
The problem I find with that is that many regenerative farmers are growing and raising food without the newest technology; there were no talks of making land more affordable, getting more farmers, nothing, just the support of technology.
I can say that it is good that regenerative agriculture was highlighted at the White House, and there are talks of using fewer pesticides, but the stark, uncomfortable reality is that this is just a way for the bureaucrats to take over the freedom movement of regenerative agriculture and ensure the shareholders can keep their money.
The question that should be asked is, why is technology the biggest emphasis? I understand industrial operations require more, but I thought the point of regenerative agriculture was to stop the industrial farming practices?
So, who is it really benefiting?
A quick financial search will hold the answers. I’ve learned in the past year, since I started researching AI and all the dots, most don’t look at the money; they look at the influencers and pretty words, but money talks.
Would you be surprised to know that Bayer (owner of Monsanto) has large investments in AI farming technologies?
Isn’t that something? The company that just received immunity for poisoning millions and bankrupting farmers is now getting more money because the bureaucrats decided that we need to adopt more ‘precision technology’ to farm?
When the US swapped to the industrial model, farmers were promised more money, but while at first it did increase yields, the results today stripped the soil, bankrupted farmers, and led to monoculture, which is killing us all.
Bayer has investments and partnerships with Microsoft to develop AI programs, satellite imaging, and more.
It seems the recent EO is more for the large corporations than the farmers or consumers. Other large companies that will benefit from this EO, Palantir, secured a $300 million deal for the USDA to use its AI systems. Peter Thiel’s venture capital firm, Founders Fund, is investing in a virtual herding company along with technology to track animals and diagnose issues.
Which strangely ties back into the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health section, which our government has implemented. Big emphasis on using AI for healthcare, using what’s called ‘Delphi’ to track human health, and much more dystopian stuff.
Microsoft, Syngenta, John Deere, and IBM are also invested heavily in implementing these technologies into farming.
I want to stress something important: these companies have helped create the current problems we face today. They poisoned the soil, people, animals, and helped create the shareholder capitalism economy. Why are we cheering on more control?
Strangely, many of these align directly with the Sustainable Goals of the WEF, which we should have sustainability goals, but for the bureaucrats, they only want it if it can allow them to hold control and make more profit. Who is the chairman of the WEF (World Economic Forum) and the CEO of BlackRock, which holds many shares in many of these companies as well?
Finally, where do you think all of this farming data needs to be stored? Data centers. It is already being documented that water poisoning, droughts, eminent domain of farmland, and even bees dying off close to data centers, how is more technology the solution? It’s not unless you are profiting.
These technologies are directly connected to what is known as the Internet of Bodies, a DARPA program that wants to connect everything living thing and blade of grass to the grid.
If we value true freedom, how can we be in support of this?
Something I have learned any freedom movement that poses any inch of change or revolution is quickly grabbed up and warped to something else.
I fear that regenerative agriculture is.
It’s not so much about the farmer or consumer, but more so about how the shareholders can maximize profits and continue the centralization of our resources.
If we want a strong, healthy food system, we must create it. We need millions and billions of small regenerative farms, strong communities creating strong networks, people not obsessed with convenience but obsessed with creating a better world that we can leave to our children, not one that only has shareholders’ interests.
I encourage you to support local, get involved, grow and learn what you can, and stop falling for bullshit.
A quote to simmer on from Wendell Berry:
“This massive ascendancy of corporate power over democratic process is probably the most ominous development since the end of World War II, and for the most part "the free world" seems to be regarding it as merely normal.”
― Wendell Berry, Bringing it to the Table: On Farming and Food
Talk soon,
Shelby
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