{"id":172574,"date":"2020-11-16T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=172574"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:08:56","slug":"world-economic-forums-great-reset-plan-for-big-food-benefits-industry-not-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/11\/world-economic-forums-great-reset-plan-for-big-food-benefits-industry-not-people\/","title":{"rendered":"World Economic Forum\u2019s \u2018Great Reset\u2019 Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.\u201d \u2014 <\/em>Vandana Shiva<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. Photo by Heinz Tesarek<\/p><\/div>\n

11 Nov 2020 – <\/em>The World Economic Forum\u2019s (WEF) The Great Reset<\/a> includes a plan to transform the global food and agricultural industries and the human diet. The architects of the plan\u00a0 claim it will reduce food scarcity, hunger and disease, and even mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n

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But a closer look at the corporations and think tanks the WEF is partnering with to usher in this global transformation suggests that the real motive is tighter corporate control<\/a> over the food system by means of technological solutions.<\/p>\n

Vandana Shiva, scholar, environmentalist, food sovereignty advocate and author, told The Defender, \u201cThe Great Reset is about multinational corporate stakeholders at the World Economic Forum controlling as many elements of planetary life as they possibly can. From the digital data humans produce to each morsel of food we eat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The WEF describes itself<\/a> as \u201cthe global platform for public-private cooperation\u201d that creates partnerships between corporations, politicians, intellectuals, scientists and other leaders of society to \u201cdefine, discuss and advance key issues on the global agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to WEF\u2019s founder and executive chairman, Klaus Schwab, the forum is guided by the goal of positioning \u201cprivate corporations as the trustees of society\u201d to \u201caddress social and environmental challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July, Schwab published a 195-page book, \u201cCOVID-19: The Great Reset<\/a>,\u201d in which he challenged industry leaders and decision makers to \u201cmake good use of the pandemic by not letting the crisis go to waste.\u201d<\/p>\n

TIME magazine (whose owner Marc Benioff<\/a> is a WEF board member) recently partnered<\/a> with the WEF to cover The Great Reset and to provide a \u201clook at how the COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique opportunity to transform the way we live.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Great Reset is meant to be all-encompassing. Its partner organizations include the biggest players in data collection, telecommunications, weapons manufacturing, finance, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and the food industry.<\/p>\n

The WEF\u2019s plans for the \u201creset\u201d of food and agriculture include projects and strategic partnerships that favor genetically modified organisms<\/a>, lab-made proteins and pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals as sustainable solutions to food and health issues.<\/p>\n

For example, WEF has promoted and partnered with an organization called EAT Forum. EAT Forum describes itself<\/a> as a \u201cDavos for food\u201d that plans to \u201cadd value to business and industry\u201d and \u201cset the political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

EAT was co-founded by Wellcome Trust<\/a>, an organization established with funds from GlaxoSmithKline<\/a> and which still has strategic partnerships with the drugmaker. EAT collaborates with nearly 40 city governments<\/a> in Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America and Australia. The organization also assists the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF<\/a>) in the \u201ccreation of new dietary guidelines\u201d and sustainable development initiatives.<\/p>\n

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According to Federic Leroy, a food science and biotechnology professor at University of Brussels, EAT network interacts closely with some of the biggest imitation meat companies, including Impossible Foods and other biotech companies, which aim to replace wholesome nutritious foods with genetically modified lab creations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey frame it as healthy and sustainable, which of course it is neither,\u201d Leroy told The Defender.<\/p>\n

Impossible Foods was initially co-funded<\/a> by Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates<\/a>. Recent lab results showed<\/a> the company\u2019s imitation meat contained glyphosate levels 11 times higher than its closest competitor.<\/p>\n

EAT\u2019s biggest initiative is called FReSH<\/a>, which the organization describes as an effort to drive the transformation of the food system. The project\u2019s partners include Bayer, Cargill, Syngenta, Unilever and even tech giant Google.<\/p>\n

\u201cCompanies like Unilever and Bayer and other pharmaceutical companies are already chemical processors \u2014 so many of these companies are very well positioned to profit off of this new food business which revolves around processing chemicals and extracts needed to produce these lab-made foods on a global scale,\u201d Leroy said.<\/p>\n

In Schwab\u2019s book, he discusses how biotechnology and genetically modified food should become a central pillar to repairing global food scarcity issues, issues which COVID<\/a> has revealed and exacerbated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He writes \u201cglobal food security will only be achieved if regulations on genetically modified foods are adapted to reflect the reality that gene editing offers a precise, efficient and safe method of improving crops.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shiva disagrees. She told The Defender that the \u201cWEF is parading fake science,\u201d and \u201cfor Mr. Schwab to promote these technologies as solutions proves that The Great Reset is about maintaining and empowering a corporate extraction machine and the private ownership of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

EAT developed what it refers to as \u201cthe planetary health diet<\/a>,\u201d which the WEF champions as the \u201csustainable dietary solution of the future.\u201d But according to Leroy, it\u2019s a diet that\u2019s supposed to replace everything else. \u201cThe diet aims to cut the meat and dairy intake of the global population by as much as 90% in some cases and replaces it with lab-made foods, cereals and oil,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Shiva further explained, \u201cEAT\u2019s proposed diet is not about nutrition at all, it\u2019s about big business and it\u2019s about a corporate takeover of the food system.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to EAT\u2019s own reports<\/a>, the big adjustments the organization and its corporate partners want to make to the food system are \u201cunlikely to be successful if left up to the individual,\u201d and the changes they wish to impose on societal eating habits and food \u201crequire reframing at the systemic level with hard policy interventions that include laws, fiscal measures, subsidies and penalties, trade reconfiguration and other economic and structural measures.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Shiva said this is the wrong approach, because \u201call of the science\u201d shows that diets should be centered around regional and geographical biodiversity. She explained that \u201cEAT\u2019s uniform global diet will be produced with western technology and agricultural chemicals. Forcing this onto sovereign nations by multinational lobbying is what I refer to as food imperialism<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Loffredo is a reporter for<\/em> The Defender.<\/p>\n

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