New Future of Community Affordability, Accountability, Spirituality and Sustainability
“Localizing food production and focusing on affordability, accountability, spirituality and sustainability has been successful.”
Tech billionaire Bill Gates, co-founder and former CEO of Microsoft has quietly purchased about 242,000 acres of U.S. farmland with plans to donate land to the new sustainable communities that will be appearing around the USA including Washington state. Through Cascade Investment a small Louisiana company, Gates purchased 14,500 acres “prime” acres in Washington state.1
These land will be used for new ways of farming, organic and regenerative farming methods. In the U.S., consumers are seeking out wholesome, healthy, minimally processed food.
Studies have shown emissions that come from animals have no real effect on the environmental climate change. Replacing real beef with “fake” meat to avoid a climate disaster makes no sense and real beef will always be a choice if you want it.
People should have a choice between eating real meat and/or plant based “fake” meat. When asked whether he thinks plant-based and lab-grown meats could “be the full solution to the protein problem globally,” he says, yes, and people will have that choice.
Plant-based food that tastes like meat is a growing food trend. A market research study shows that sales of meat alternatives have risen from $118.7 million in 2017 to $192.1 million in 2019. The Impossible Burger, created by Impossible Foods, is a large contributor to this increase; nearly 80 percent of the growth can be attributed to this burger and another meat alternative called Beyond Meat.
Impossible Burgers promotes itself as something good for you and vegetarians seem to like it. If your goal is to eat less meat, then the Impossible Burger is a good option.
There are new healthy ways of farming to make sure we have both organic beef and so-called plant-based meat with soybean production to boost a healthy farming industry and provide plenty of food in the future.
Pat Brown, founder of Impossible Foods, believes that the “winning strategy” for the future of farming involves “finding ways for farmers to produce more corn and soybeans…”
Gates and Brown both believe in “good use of land for farming”.
Hydroponic Systems
Like many others, Gates and Brown have found the healthy way to produce more soybeans for their food
products is through vertical farming and hydroponic systems.
According to Brown, ‘the safest and most environmentally friendly option to allow us to scale up soy production and provide the Impossible Burger to consumers is to farm above and below ground in controlled environments.
And CTS is now supplying growing containers with our rust-free freight cars that have been retrofitted for controlled environments. And Impossible Foods is the first to have purchased our environmentally controlled growing containers for their healthy plants to grow with natural seeds and without herbicides or pesticides. Genetically modified seeds won’t be necessary in these controlled environments. And the surplus food can be used for for exporting, animal feed and ethanol.
And CTS has 1110 acres in California, 157 acres in Washington and 116 acres in Connecticut which will be used to explore these new ways of farming and include organic and regenerative farming and agriculture methods. The goal is to help heal ecosystems and produce truly sustainable, nourishing food for generations to come. In addition, CU will participate in producing an educational program for those future generation’s edification in these healthy methods.
Animals raised according to regenerative agriculture will complete the ecosystem, one that is both healing for the land and productive for the farmers who keep it. Regenerative agriculture will be successful in which livestock and crops are integrated into a symbiotic, complementary system that mimics the way nature works.
And bee farming will be used successfully for cross pollenization of corn grown in regenerated fields above ground.
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
September 23, 2021, United Nations Food Systems Summit, brought stability to hundreds of farmers and communities.
The Summit “launched bold new actions to transform the way the world produces food with large controlled environmental containers above and below ground, as well as regenerative agriculture and the knowledge of indigenous people.”
U.N. secretary general António Guterres appointed Agnes Kalibata as the event’s head. Kalibata is the former Rwandan agriculture minister who is now the president.
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), an organization funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AGRA was launched in 2006 and appears to be benecial with regenerative agriculture and vertical farming, hydrophonics and with controlled environmental containers and without chemical fertilizers. Sustainable communities are flourishing.
“Localizing food production and focusing on affordability, accountability, spirituality and sustainability has been successful.”
The small farmers and communities and regenerative practices have true potential to feed the world and heal the planet.
It is often said that the world is becoming smaller, and from the twentieth century onward the people of this world have almost become a single community.
If we want to protect our home each of us must possess a sense of universal responsibility. This alone has the power to negate adverse traits such as selfishness, deceiving others, abuse, and so on. There will be no need to be afraid. Life becomes meaningful, and households, communities, and nations, large and small, become happier. The key to it all is the development of compassion. ~ Dalai Lama – June 2022