Moar on Wellcome Trust (PB >>15582843 PB)

Dept. of State FOIA reading room from 2012: "A Vision for a World Food Stewardship Council:

Addressing the World's Major Food Crises"

"Modern food production and consumption patterns are of concern not only to human health but to the ability of the planet to survive. The loss of arable land, shrinking biodiversity, depletion of water supplies, the heavy use of petroleum resources for industrial farming, and climate change are but a few relevant issues. By 2025 for instance, 2/3 of the world's population will be affected by serious stress on water supplies; 70% of water is used for agriculture[6]. Animal agriculture, which draws heavily on finite resources such as water and oil, and leads to emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, now surpasses transport as a contributor to global warming[7]"

"A call is hereby issued for the creation of a World Food Stewardship Council

whose mandate is to: a) Convene world leaders, experts and other stakeholders with the aim of solving world food problems; b) Develop solutions that simultaneously address

these problems; c) Act as an integrative body to keep relevant parties informed of

developments; d) Commission and support strategic research projects that fill key gaps in knowledge; e) Develop model policies; 1) Work with world leaders to have policies implemented and evaluated."

"Funding and help with development of a leadership team would best come from institutions and foundations known for global scope, vision, and bipartisanship. Examples would be the Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Bloomberg Foundation, ''Wellcome Trust''. Other stakeholders would not be in a position to fund such efforts (e.g.,scientists) or might be seen as having vested interests (e.g., industry)."

Wonder if Wellcome and Bloomberg have been buying farm land like Gates…

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