World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ Plan for Big Food Benefits Industry, Not People by Jeremy Loffredo, The Defender, Children’s Health Defense News & Views
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he World Economic Forum’s (WEF) The Great Reset includes a plan to transform the global food and agricultural industries and the human diet. The architects of the plan claim it will reduce food scarcity, hunger and disease, and even mitigate climate change.
But a closer look at the corporations and discuss and advance key issues on the think tanks the WEF is partnering with to global agenda.” usher in this global transformation sugAccording to WEF’s founder and execugests that the real motive is tighter tive chairman, Klaus Schwab, the forum is corporate control over the food system by guided by the goal of positioning “private means of technological solutions. corporations as the trustees of society” to Vandana Shiva, scholar, environmental- “address social and environmental ist, food sovereignty advocate and author, challenges.” told The Defender, “The Great Reset is In July, Schwab published a 195-page about multinational corporate stakeholders book, COVID-19: The Great Reset, in which he at the World Economic Forum controlling challenged industry leaders and decision as many elements of planetary life as they makers to “make good use of the pandemic possibly can. From the digital data humans by not letting the crisis go to waste.” produce to each morsel of food we eat.” TIME magazine (whose owner Marc The WEF describes itself as “the global Benioff is a WEF board member) recently platform for public-private cooperation” partnered with the WEF to cover The Great that creates partnerships between corpo- Reset and to provide a “look at how the rations, politicians, intellectuals, scientists COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique and other leaders of society to “define, opportunity to transform the way we live.”
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