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Bill Gates’ plans to remake food systems will harm the climate

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By Stacy Malkan In his book on how to avoid a climate disaster, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates discusses his plans to model African food systems upon India’s “green revolution,” in which a plant scientist increased crop yields and saved a billion lives, according to Gates. The obstacle to implementing a similar overhaul in Africa, he Bill Gates’ plans to remake food systems will harm the climate

The Rise of Anti-Women, Anti-Public Health Groups

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This article first appeared in Huffington Post. By Stacy Malkan At a recent soiree at Union Station, the DC power elite gathered in an anti-public health confab dressed up as a celebration of women that should concern anyone who cares about the health and rights of women and children. The Independent Women’s Forum drew an The Rise of Anti-Women, Anti-Public Health Groups

Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents, monocrops

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By Stacy Malkan If Bill Gates has his way, the food in our future will little resemble what’s on our plates today. Gates and his agribusiness industry partners are proposing to transform our food and how it is produced. To the techno-food industrialists, hunger and climate change are problems to be solved with data and Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents, monocrops

Why we’re tracking Bill Gates’ plans to remake our food systems

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In a series of posts, U.S. Right to Know examines Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation’s plans to remake our food system. Why are we focusing on Bill Gates? Gates has an extraordinary amount of power over our food systems and he is using it. Gates is one of the world’s leading investors in biotechnology companies that Why we’re tracking Bill Gates’ plans to remake our food systems