<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Climate</a> advocate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Gates</a> recently attempted to justify using private jets by noting his investments in various green technology initiatives.
The Microsoft co-founder spurned accusations of hypocrisy during an <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001hsl1/amol-rajan-interviews-bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with the BBC in Kenya broadcast on Friday, claiming that his decision to “spend billions of dollars” on climate innovations such as carbon capture systems more than accounts for his personal carbon footprint.
“Should I stay at home and not come to Kenya and learn about farming and malaria?” he asked reporter Amol Rajan. “I’m comfortable with the idea that not only am I not part of the problem by paying for the offsets, but also through the billions that my Breakthrough Energy Group is spending, that I’m part of the solution.”
Gates flew more than 213,000 miles on 59 private jet flights in 2017, according to a <a href="https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S016073831930132X?token=124B2ADC718F08DFDDD2C2248A19B7EF4A079AA29328DE2AC4A4F77319B75768C110EEA4113D9EA2EB913FFA1700B9AD&amp;originRegion=us-east-1&amp;originCreation=20230207142459" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from Linnaeus University economics professor Stefan Gössling. The flight activity created some 1,760 tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which is nearly 109 times higher than the emissions per capita in the United States, according to <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=US" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the World Bank.
As of 2021, Gates had four private jets: two Gulfstream G650ERs that each cost about $70 million and two Bombardier Challenger 350s that each cost $27 million, according to an <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inside-bill-gates-controversial-194-million-private-jet-/?trk=pulse-article_more-articles_related-content-card" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> from Skyluxe Aviation. The combined value of the vehicles is $194 million.
Business leaders and government officials who call attention to the purported dangers of climate change have frequently garnered backlash for traveling on private jets, which produce an estimated 40 times more carbon per passenger than commercial flights. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has similarly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/climate-czar-john-kerry-on-private-jet-travel-its-the-only-choice-for-somebody-like-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touted</a> his work to solve climate change when questioned about his use of a luxury aircraft.
“If you offset your carbon, it’s the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle,” he contended two years ago. “The time it takes me to get somewhere, I can’t sail across the ocean. I have to fly, meet with people and get things done.”
Attendees of the most recent World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, likewise received criticism for using private jets to reach the resort village. An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/distasteful-masterclass-in-hypocrisy-climate-group-shreds-world-economic-forum-attendees-for-flying-in-on-hundreds-of-private-jets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">analysis</a> commissioned by Greenpeace found that 1,040 private planes flew in and out of airports servicing Davos during last year’s conference; the vast majority of the jets were embarking on short-haul flights of less than 500 miles that “could have easily been train or car trips,” while one plane carried its passengers a mere 13 miles to attend the event.
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-civil-war-greta-thunberg-airs-grievances-against-world-economic-forum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the bureaucrats and corporate leaders assembled at the conference of hypocrisy regarding their climate commitments.
“We are right now in Davos where basically the people who are mostly fueling the destruction of the planet, the people who are at the very core of the climate crisis, the people who are investing in fossil fuels, and yet somehow these are the people that we seem to rely on solving our problems,” she said. “They have proven time and time again that they are not prioritizing that. They are prioritizing self-greed, corporate greed and short-term economic profits above people and above planet.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mcdonalds">McDonald&#8217;s</a> announced that customers who use their app in December will have a chance to win the storied McDonald’s Gold Card, plus three more for friends, which entitles users to free food for life.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/restaurant">fast food</a> giant announced the “SZN of Sharing” event will run between December 5 and 25. Anyone who takes advantage of various app promos throughout the month will be entered to win the main prize, Parade <a href="https://parade.com/food/mcdonalds-offers-chance-win-mysterious-gold-card-free-food-for-life-2022?fbclid=IwAR1yt11Jfz0Iiguw7Wdk1__1aBAXkNqHm2I1OOUPavievqM50e4PbtKs_ns">reported</a>. 
“Our fans have been fascinated by the lore of the McDonald’s Card and if it really exists. And now, we’ll make this McDonald’s legend a reality for our fans by giving them the ultimate holiday gift – a chance to win a card and then share access to it with three of their family or friends,” McDonald’s USA Chief Marketing and Customer Experience Officer Tariq Hassan said in a statement. 
“Just by using the McDonald’s App, everyone can experience the joy that comes with sharing McDonald’s this holiday season.”
The card entitled recipients to the equivalent of two meals per week for 50 years, which means the potential for chowing down on a total of 5,200 McDonald’s meals for free.
These famous cards have been discussed for years, but no one was sure they existed for a while. Eventually, it was revealed that celebrities and other people who were deemed “heroes,” including Warren Buffet, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates">Bill Gates</a>, and Mitt Romney’s father George Romney did have these fabled cards. Rob Lowe also has one and bragged about it during a late show appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in 2016.
Most McDonald’s Gold Cards are franchise or state-specific — Lowe’s card is only valid at franchises in Santa Barbara or Goleta, California, Insider <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/story-behind-mcdonalds-gold-card-2016-11">reported</a>. People who are deemed “local heroes” can be awarded cards by franchise owners as they see fit.
The publication noted that only two people have confirmed cards that work in any McDonald’s location: Romney, who received his from restaurant owner Ray Kroc himself, and Bill Gates. 
Recently, McDonald’s debuted “adult Happy Meals” that come with a toy. The “Cactus Plant Flea Market Box” was a limited-time collaboration with the fashion brand Cactus Plant and came with retro toys including Grimace, the Hamburglar, Birdie, plus a new character named Cactus Buddy. 
The popular items sold out quickly, and the collectible toys popped up on resale sites for inflated prices.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bill Gates</a> said on Tuesday that the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/energy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">energy</a> crisis stemming from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine-russia-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian invasion</a> of Ukraine will be “good for the long run” as nations pivot toward <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renewable energy</a> solutions.
The billionaire and Microsoft co-founder explained during an <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1582437722006093825?s=43&amp;t=ajsFevAUZYZzfyePcW80gg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with CNBC that although global economies cannot immediately discard oil and gas, current shortages in the European energy market will prompt a faster transition away from fossil fuels.
“Now, without the Russian natural gas being available in Europe, it’s a setback. We need to find non-Russian hydrocarbon sources to substitute for those,” Gates explained. “Keeping those economies in decent shape is a priority. Now on the other hand, it’s good for the long run, because people won’t want to be dependent on Russian natural gas, so they’ll move to these new approaches more rapidly.”
Natural gas shipments from Russia, which had already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/let-the-wolfs-tail-freeze-putin-doubles-down-on-halting-natural-gas-flow-to-western-europe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paused exports</a> to Germany through Nord Stream 1 before the pipeline system <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/danish-police-reveal-cause-of-nord-stream-pipeline-damage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">witnessed</a> massive damage, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-union-social-market-economy-might-redistribute-fossil-fuel-profits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided</a> 40% of the continent’s natural gas supply last year. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen acknowledged that low hydropower generation, which emerged from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/european-union-intends-to-flatten-the-curve-for-electricity-use" target="_blank" rel="noopener">low river capacity</a>, is partially responsible for soaring energy prices, although she said the “effects of climate change” were responsible for the low water levels.
Gates is the founder of Breakthrough Energy, which aims to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-raises-1-billion-from-corporate-america-to-fight-climate-change" target="_blank" rel="noopener">catalyze</a> technological development to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. The organization raised funds from several corporate partners last year, including BlackRock, Boston Consulting Group, General Motors, and American Airlines.
In the United States, where <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-much-power-bills-could-rise-this-winter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">winter power bills</a> are slated to rise 28% or more, members of the Biden administration have similarly claimed that high energy prices will facilitate a shift toward renewable sources. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, for instance, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-explains-to-texans-why-they-should-buy-electric-vehicles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that the “pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas” would cause more Americans to seek benefits from electric vehicles.
Gates also commented on environmental, social, and governance investing, also known as ESG, and responded to criticism from those who argue that the movement blends nonpartisan business operations with progressive social causes. He called BlackRock CEO Larry Fink a “great example of private-sector leadership” for his work in promoting renewable energy.
“Anyone who says that climate shouldn’t be a factor in how you evaluate the future of a company, that’s not capitalism, because companies that have emissions are going to be subject to border adjustment tariffs or taxes. If you’re dealing with severe weather events, that’s got to be factored in,” Gates remarked. “The attacks are kind of illogical, because climate does affect the economy, which does affect investments.”
Fink has indeed claimed on numerous occasions that “climate risk is investment risk.” BlackRock said in a recent <a href="https://www.blackrock.com/us/individual/literature/press-release/blackrock-response-attorneys-general.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to conservative state attorneys general that ESG does not constitute a departure from the maximization of profits and claimed that entities adopting a “forward-looking position with respect to climate risk and its implications for the energy transition will generate better long-term financial outcomes.”
Multiple conservative states, including Missouri, South Carolina, and Louisiana, have since pulled more than $1 billion from BlackRock, which often presses portfolio companies to deprioritize fossil fuels. Texas concluded that BlackRock and nine other firms had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-cuts-ties-with-blackrock-other-woke-firms-over-their-hatred-for-fossil-fuels" target="_blank" rel="noopener">violated</a> state law by “refusing to deal with” or “terminating business activities with” companies involved in the production of oil and gas “without an ordinary business purpose.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/microsoft">Microsoft</a> co-founder Bill Gates took a surprising shot at left-wing climate alarmists during an interview that aired last week, saying their attempts to radically change people&#8217;s behavior for the sake of the environment were not realistic.
Gates made the remarks while speaking to Bloomberg’s Zero podcast with host Akshat Rathi when he was asked by Rathi if a &#8220;revolution&#8221; was needed to address so-called &#8220;climate change.&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s realistic to say that people are utterly going to change their lifestyle because of concerns about climate,&#8221; Gates <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/09/29/bill-gates-youll-never-solve-climate-change-with-degrowth.html">said</a>. &#8220;You can have a cultural revolution where you&#8217;re trying to throw everything up, you can create a North Korean-type situation where the state&#8217;s in control. Other than immense central authority to have people just obey, I think the collective action problem is just completely not solvable.&#8221;
&#8220;Anyone who says that we will tell people to stop eating meat, or stop wanting to have a nice house, and we&#8217;ll just basically change human desires, I think that that&#8217;s too difficult,&#8221; Gates said. &#8220;You can make a case for it. But I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s realistic for that to play an absolutely central role.&#8221;
&#8220;But just having a few rich countries, a few rich companies and a few rich individuals buy their way out so they can say they&#8217;re not part of the problem, that has nothing to do with solving the problem,&#8221; Gates added. &#8220;Those [remaining] two-thirds of emissions are pretty basic in terms of the calories and shelter and transport and goods being used. So, the excesses of the rich countries … even curbing those completely out of existence is not a solution to this problem.&#8221;
Gates later added that in order to combat &#8220;climate change&#8221; that people needed to not use the issue &#8220;as a moral crusade.&#8221;
&#8220;People who are in the climate space may not realize how many things are competing for the modest amount of increased resources that society has,&#8221; Gates said. &#8220;And that not that many people are prepared to be worse off because of climate requirements.&#8221;
Gates spoke to the Podcast back in August before the Democrats&#8217; climate legislation, which was billed as a plan to fight inflation, was signed into law.
The release of the podcast episode comes as Florida just endured last week one of the most powerful Category 4 hurricanes to ever hit the United States — which has left dozens dead and caused many billions of dollars in damage.

Bill Gates Takes Surprising Shot At Left-Wing Climate Alarmists: ‘Just Completely Not Solvable’

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-29/india-s-adani-is-first-asian-to-become-world-s-third-richest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fifth-richest man</a>, thinks that Communist China should be praised for the way it has handled poverty.
New York Times Magazine columnist David Wallace-Wells, the author of “The Uninhabitable Earth,” opined that progress on poverty around the globe “has been really remarkable.” Asserting that said progress reflected “progress in China,” he <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/bill-gates-climate-change-report.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Gates if the trend toward eradicating poverty would continue since China has “sort of finished eradicating real poverty.”
“If you’re allowed to say the truth about things in China, they’ve done a very good job,” Gates responded. “They’re now a middle-income country, in fact, one of the wealthier middle-income countries.”
In 2018, an <a href="https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2019/07/23/could-chinas-financial-repression-be-good-for-growth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> written by a professor of economics at Peking University, Beijing and a then PhD scholar at Peking University surmised that China had initially used a repressive financial policy in order to stimulate the economy.
The article stated that the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) was still guiding commercial banks’ settings of deposit and lending rates, adding that “repressive financial policies have not stopped China from achieving rapid economic growth,” but that “economic growth has decelerated and systemic financial risks have escalated sharply.”
In March 2021, NPR <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/974173482/what-chinas-total-victory-over-extreme-poverty-looks-like-in-actuality" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that extreme poverty was defined by China as making less than $2.30 per day in contrast to the World Bank&#8217;s suggested poverty line of making less $5.50 per day for China&#8217;s upper middle-income category.
“China still has around 13% of its population falling below that line, or close to 200 million people,&#8221; the World Bank&#8217;s Martin Raiser pointed out.
NPR correspondent John Ruwitch, who covers Chinese affairs, added, “But for Xi Jinping, proclaiming victory over extreme poverty is propaganda gold.”
In February 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56194622" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that China had eliminated extreme poverty the previous year.
“According to the current criteria, all 98.99 million poor rural population have been taken out of poverty, and 832 poverty-stricken counties as well as 128,000 villages have been removed from the poverty list,” he stated.
Some critics of China have pointed out that China’s campaign to eliminate poverty ignored a root cause of rural poverty: poor rural education. Some research has shown a school drop rate of up to 63% for rural students before the end of high school, <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2021/09/how-successful-was-chinas-poverty-alleviation-drive/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to The Diplomat.

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When most people hear the name Bill Gates, the first thing that comes to mind is his work at Microsoft, or his climate change and vaccine initiatives. But it’s his investment in a different field that’s now turning heads: Agriculture.
Last year, it was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/05/bill-gates-climate-crisis-farmland">revealed</a> that Bill Gates had become the single largest farmland owner in America. While quietly amassing more American farmland than any other person on Earth, Gates has also positioned himself as one of the leading voices for “synthetic meat” and other meat alternatives — claiming they’re imperative in the fight against climate change. 
Here’s the story of what Bill Gates is doing with all that farmland, and how he’s waging a war on meat to line his own pockets — all under the guise of climate activism. 
<h4>All The Land Money Can Buy</h4>
As of last year, Bill Gates owned roughly a quarter million acres of U.S. farmland — nearly the size of Hong Kong. There are 70,000 acres in Louisiana for corn, cotton, and rice and 20,000 acres in Nebraska for soybeans. One of his potato farms is so big you can literally see it from <a href="https://www.republicworld.com/business-news/international-business/bill-gates-farmland-growing-potatoes-for-mcdonalds-fries-is-visible-from-space-report.html">space</a>. Gates’ farmland stretches across 19 states — from North Carolina to Michigan to California — and is <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/04/07/bill-gates-now-americas-biggest-farmer-does-want-land/">valued</a> at nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars. 
For years, Gates and his ex-wife Melinda used a series of shell companies to <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/bill-gates-uses-farmland-investment-211220333.html">hide</a> their land purchases. 
In 2018, for example, a company called Angelina Agriculture purchased approximately $171 million worth of farmland in Washington state. On the surface, Angelina was a small company based in a Louisiana town with 462 people. It had two employees. But according to <a href="https://landreport.com/2021/01/farmer-bill/">records</a>, the business was actually under the umbrella of a group called Cascade Investment — a private investment firm controlled by Bill Gates. 
Gates is no stranger to agriculture; in the past, his foundation <a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/our-work/programs/global-growth-and-opportunity/agricultural-development">invested</a> tens of millions of dollars into GMO technology. Those transactions included a $27.6 million investment in <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/gates-foundation-ties-with-monsanto-under-fire-from-activists/">Monsanto</a> — the agricultural company that would later be forced to pay out over $11 billion in settlements after it was <a href="https://www.lawsuit-information-center.com/roundup-mdl-judge-question-10-billion-settlement-proposal.html">found</a> that some of its products caused cancer. 
But Gates’ transition from simply investing in farming technology to becoming the leading owner of farmland itself is even more noteworthy when coupled with his shifting stance on meat.
<h4>The New War On Meat</h4>
As Gates was amassing swaths of farmland, the billionaire also emerged as one of the world’s most prominent and vociferous voices for synthetic meat and other plant-based alternatives. According to him, the transition away from meat must take place swiftly in order to save the planet from climate change. 
“All rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,” Gates said during a <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/14/1018296/bill-gates-climate-change-beef-trees-microsoft/">conversation</a> with MIT’s Technology Review.
It’s so important, he says, that government coercion could be necessary to catalyze the shift. “You can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand,” he added bluntly. 
In a separate interview with CBS, Gates <a href="https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1362441129615110152?s=20&amp;t=VXFm2o5qYEEtbeymh9s30w">elaborated</a>: “Unless we can make the cow zero emission, which I’m not sure we can, we do need to get rid of those emissions. It’s not gonna happen overnight. The scale-up and the innovation still required there is quite large.”
If it were up to Bill Gates, the world would abandon meat for synthetic and plant-based alternatives.
But how do you make synthetic meat? And what goes into plant-based alternatives?
Well, it just so happens that “plant-based” meat is typically created with a variety of lentils, potatoes, pea proteins, soy and wheat — all things grown on farmland owned by Gates. Over the last five years, Gates has also <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-VCDB-17877">invested</a> tens of millions of dollars into leading plant-based meat companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. 
He is also among the single largest investors in “synthetic” or lab-grown meat, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/bill-gates-and-richard-branson-bet-on-lab-grown-meat-startup.html">pouring</a> tens of millions more into companies like Memphis Meats.
<h4>Shifting The Narrative</h4>
At the moment, the biggest problem standing in the way of a meatless world is the question of how exactly you get people to leave meat behind. And thanks to Gates, we now have an answer to that question: You convince the world that eliminating meat is necessary for fighting climate change. 
While Gates initially <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/bill-gates-and-richard-branson-bet-on-lab-grown-meat-startup.html">argued</a> that the shift away from traditional meat was imperative due to population growth, his new message centers on environmental activism. 
Over the last five years, climate activists — with Gates at the forefront — increasingly began <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6z8BqsHQl0">claiming</a> the meat industry posed an existential threat to the planet, and that our reliance on cows for food was accelerating climate change. 
Waging a war on meat was necessary to save the environment. 
In 2019, for example, Gates <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/bill-gates-warns-of-the-dangers-of-cow-farts-and-the-world-should-take-his-words-seriously/articleshow/67962704.cms">wrote</a> in his annual letter to friends and followers that the world must cut back on meat because cows “give off methane when they belch and pass gas. (A personal surprise for me: I never thought I’d be writing seriously about bovine flatulence.)”
More recently, in his 2021 book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Gates <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/14/1018296/bill-gates-climate-change-beef-trees-microsoft/">elaborated</a> on the supposed threat posed by cows and their dangerous emissions. 
Despite the fact that beef cattle account for just 2% of America’s <a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustainable">emissions</a>, they’ve found themselves in the crosshairs of the climate-change movement. “Replace cows with environmentally friendly alternatives” has become the prevailing narrative for a growing number of activists, <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/431119-ocasio-cortez-explains-farting-cows-comment-weve-got-to-address-factory/">including</a> members of Congress. 
But are the proposed alternatives — specifically synthetic meat — actually better for the environment? 
Based on existing research, no. 
In 2019, the University of Oxford conducted a <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00005/full">study</a> measuring the environmental impact of lab-grown meat as opposed to traditional cattle and found that real meat was actually better for the environment. In their words, “We conclude that cultured meat is not prima facie climatically superior to cattle.” 
As Marco Springmann, senior environmental researcher at the University of Oxford <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/19/lab-grown-meat-could-exacerbate-climate-change-scientists-say.html">puts it</a>, “Lab meat doesn’t solve anything from an environmental perspective, since the energy emissions are so high.” 
It turns out, giant labs trying to “grow” meat take up quite a bit of energy.
Robb Wolf, a former Research Biochemist and author who has worked with the Navy’s Special Warfare Resiliency Program, agrees. “It is an outright lie that these plant-based alternatives are better for the environment, or are going to reduce carbon footprint or carbon emissions,” he told The Daily Wire.
“This is a key piece that kinda gets missed in this whole story — that tissue needs to be fed. And the stuff that needs to be fed … has to come from somewhere. It doesn’t just magically grow in a vat.”
<h4>The Scientific Community Gets On Board</h4>
Despite the apparent lack of evidence that these alternatives are better for the environment than meat, the scientific community has largely joined in on the anti-meat crusade. 
In addition to their stern warnings regarding meat’s supposed culpability in climate change, a growing faction of scientists has also begun declaring that meat is unhealthy not just for the environment, but for our bodies as well. 
According to Wolf, once the war on meat became intertwined with fighting climate change, those in the medical and scientific communities felt pressure to join in, and scientists began touting the supposed benefits of a meat-free diet.
Despite overwhelming evidence that it’s nearly impossible to replicate the nutritional characteristics of meat, the narrative began changing. And even though study after study has shown that meatless diets are far more likely to lead to <a href="https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/7-nutrients-you-cant-get-from-plants">nutrient deficiencies</a>, they have become all the rage in the scientific community.
Wolf further asserts, “It is well established in the literature that [meatless diets] tend to have pretty significant nutrient deficiencies… But the American Dietetic Association and the American Medical Association have made statements that vegan and vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the human life cycle. And there’s absolutely no data to support that — this is a completely non-evidence-based claim.”
<h4>Follow The Money</h4>
Despite the fact that diets with regular meat intake result in <a href="https://www.ceu.ox.ac.uk/news/results-show-higher-fracture-risks-for-vegans-vegetarians-and-pescatarians-than-meat-eaters">higher</a> bone density and energy levels as well as <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4529719/">better</a> muscle tone, brain health, etc., meat was suddenly deemed not just dangerous to the climate, but dangerous to our health. 
Take the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) report, for example. The GBD is the authoritative study on worldwide health each year and influences food policy in nations across the globe. 
In 2017, the <a href="https://www.healthdata.org/sites/default/files/files/policy_report/2019/GBD_2017_Booklet.pdf">report</a> claimed that 25,000 deaths globally could be attributed to the consumption of red meat, and that meat was the least important of 15 “dietary risk factors.”
Just two years later, the same <a href="https://www.healthdata.org/gbd/2019">report</a> claimed that red meat consumption was responsible for the deaths of 896,000 people and was now ranked fifth out of the 15 dietary risk factors. 
According to the GBD, red meat killed 36 times more people in 2019 than in 2017. 
The supposed findings were so stunning that six scientists at UC Davis conducted their own <a href="https://clear.ucdavis.edu/blog/death-red-meat-unsubstantiated">assessment</a>, finding that the GBD report was “woefully absent” of any “cold, hard facts.”
The UC Davis scientists, including world-renowned physician Alice V. Stanton, <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00311-7/fulltext?rss=yes">concluded</a> that, “These findings of additional causal relationships for red meat are not in agreement with other recently conducted systematic reviews and meta-analyses.” 
In other words, the world’s most important study on health and dietary policy completely contradicted the established literature on the topic. 
How did meat suddenly become so deadly, so quickly? What happened in those two years? Could it have anything to do with the new playbook for climate change?
Or could it have anything to do with who funds the GBD report, and others like it?
In 2017, the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) — the coordinating center for the GBD report — <a href="https://www.washington.edu/news/2017/01/25/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-boosts-vital-work-of-the-uws-institute-for-health-metrics-and-evaluation/">announced</a> that it had received a $279 million gift from The Gates Foundation. 
<a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/2017/01/ihme-announcement">According</a> to the University, they and The Gates Foundation, “share a vision — a world where all people can achieve their full potential — and through our partnerships we will improve the health and well-being of people here and around the globe.”
As the Gates Foundation puts it, “The funding will sustain IHME’s efforts as the coordinating center for the Global Burden of Disease project.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Russell Brand</a> is sounding the alarm on the green energy movement and farmer revolts in Europe, claiming it’s all part of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/great-reset">The Great Reset</a>.&#8221;
The British-born comedian spoke up about Bill Gates buying up farmland across the United States and how it&#8217;s affecting farmers during a <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/07/20/actor-russell-brand-calls-green-energy-movement-a-scam-to-bankrupt-farmers-and-grab-their-land-globally-via-the-great-reset-1263594/">recent</a> episode of his podcast, &#8220;Under the Skin.&#8221;
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The 47-year-old said people “should be respectful to the Earth … we believe in responsible energy,” but only to aid “ordinary people” and not “centralized power.”
While speaking about protests from Dutch farmers, the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star said, “This is connected to the land grab of Bill Gates. This is connected to corruption of companies like Monsanto. This whole fertilizer situation is a scam. They present it as a green ideology.” 
“‘Oh, we can’t keep using these fertilizers,’ And anyone who lives in the rural area will know that when those fertilizers get used, you think, ‘Oh God, this is a bit dodgy.’ But the reason that farmers are using those fertilizers is cause it’s necessary economically because of the pressure they’re under financially because of — often because of government-enforced imperatives,” Brand continued.
“The objective isn’t to get the farmers to behave in an organic, responsible ecologically apposite manner, no, far from it. It’s in order to bankrupt the farmers so that their land can be grabbed,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1549008316277432326">said</a>. “This shows you how ‘The Great Reset’ operates. It uses a green agenda. And just so you know, I agree with the green agenda. I think that the planet should be treated with love and respect that we should see ourselves as in harmony with it.” 
“But when regulations are passed down from a globalist level and it affects the lives of ordinary farmers, it is the duty of all of us to support them, to stand in solidarity, to give them time to make those transitions, to say to the farming and agricultural community, &#8216;we’ll support you by buying your products,&#8217;” Brand insisted.
He claims the push for organic farming has sinister motives, ultimately. 
“The displacement of the people is the desired end point. The disempowerment of the farmers, the bankruptcy of the farmers is the desired end point. That’s what … &#8216;oh no, we were just trying to create more organic farms.&#8217; Look what’s happened. We f***ed up the livelihood of all these ordinary people. That’s not- it’s not a mistake, they’re trying to f*** up ordinary people.”
Brand has been a popular figure on the right lately, especially for his opinions on Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his frank talk on the empty, vapid life of most celebrities.

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Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maxwells-epstein-friendship-may-have-been-a-mistake-but-it-was-not-a-crime-her-defense-says-in-closing-arguments">former girlfriend</a> and convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maxwell-caused-deep-and-lasting-harm-to-young-girls-prosecution-says-in-closing-arguments">Maxwell</a> was sentenced to prison on Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan sentenced Maxwell to 20 years in prison and imposed a $750,000 fine.
&#8220;A sentence of 240 months is sufficient and no graver than necessary,” the judge stated, saying that Maxwell&#8217;s criminal activity was &#8220;extensive.&#8221;
Prosecutors had hoped for a sentence of at least 30 years, while Maxwell&#8217;s defense had hoped for just four or five years in prison for their client. If her sentence is shortened for good behavior, Maxwell could be released from prison in her late 70s.
Maxwell was found guilty by a jury in December on five of six <a href="https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-maxwell-257">counts</a>, including sex trafficking of an individual under 18 and transportation of an individual under 17 with intent to engage in “illegal sexual activity,” along with three conspiracy charges. She pled not guilty to all counts.
The former international socialite was a close confidant of Epstein for decades and managed his Florida estate. The two were frequently seen cavorting with billionaires, presidents, and members of the British royal family before they were disgraced. Maxwell remained the well-connected investment manager’s companion for decades even after their nebulous romantic relationship appeared to fizzle in the late 1990s.
Epstein was found dead at 66 in his Manhattan jail cell in August 2019 before the well-connected and wealthy financier could go on trial for his alleged decades of grooming and sexual abuse, including rape, of young girls in the 1990s and early 2000s.
The lurid details of his alleged sex ring include accusations that he procured underage girls for prominent men on his private island in the Virgin Islands, Little St. James.
Maxwell was arrested on July 2, 2020, when federal investigators discovered her hiding out in a New Hampshire mansion after virtually disappearing following Epstein’s death. She was held in a Brooklyn jail without bail because the judge deemed her a flight risk.
Between 1994 and 1997, Maxwell, “assisted, facilitated, and contributed” to Epstein’s abuse of minor girls even though she and Epstein both knew their victims, one of whom was just 14, were underage, according to the indictment against her.
Her trial in Manhattan federal court began in November.
The prosecution in Maxwell&#8217;s trial painted a picture of a pair of fully-grown adults, Maxwell and Epstein, who were “partners in crime” and had a “playbook” for targeting minors and sexually abusing them.
“Ghislaine Maxwell was dangerous. She was a grown woman who preyed on vulnerable kids,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alison Moe said in closing arguments.
The defense attempted to cast doubt on the credibility of Maxwell’s accusers, saying the women have “contaminated” memories. The defense also tried to assign selfish motives to nearly all the government’s witnesses, saying the women are motivated by money in going after Maxwell decades after the alleged abuse occurred.
Over the course of the trial, the jury heard from four of Maxwell’s accusers, several former Epstein employees, a psychologist specializing in sexual abuse, and a memory expert that Maxwell’s defense called, among others.
One of Maxwell’s accusers, a woman testifying under the pseudonym “Jane,” testified that Epstein and Maxwell abused her together when she was just 14 years old. Maxwell took her on shopping trips, asked her about her life, and discussed sexual topics with her, “Jane” said.
Three other women who say they were groomed or abused by Maxwell also testified. One woman, Annie Farmer, who testified under her full name, said Maxwell massaged her naked breasts when she was 16.
Dozens of other women have also accused Epstein of grooming and sexual abusing them when they were minors.
Another prominent accuser, Virginia Giuffre, accused Maxwell of grooming her for Epstein’s abuse when she was a 16-year-old spa attendant at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach (Trump reportedly later <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510604-book-claims-trump-barred-epstein-from-mar-a-lago-after-financier-hit">banned</a> Epstein from Mar-a-Lago in 2007 for harassing another member’s teenage daughter). Giuffre said the sexual abuse she suffered included lessons on Epstein’s oral sex preferences. Maxwell accused her of “obvious lies,” and Giuffre sued Maxwell for defamation.
During a deposition in that case, Maxwell claimed she had never given Epstein or anyone else a massage, a claim prosecutors said was a lie. Prosecutors also said she lied about whether she knew Epstein had sex toys and whether she knew that he engaged in sexual activity with anyone other than herself and two other women.
The sex trafficking trial that ended in December prompted speculation that incriminating information could potentially come to light about some of the high-profile names connected to Epstein, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton, Bobby Kennedy Jr., and former Sen. George Mitchell. However, the trial revealed little new information about Epstein’s circle of friends.
Initially, Maxwell vehemently maintained her innocence, even blurting out at a pre-trial conference, “I have not committed any crime.”
On Tuesday, Maxwell struck a more subdued tone when she addressed the court before her sentencing.
&#8220;The terrible impact on the lives of so many women is difficult to hear and even more difficult to absorb, both in its scale and in its extent,&#8221; Maxwell said.
However, she placed the blame squarely on Epstein, implying that she too was manipulated by him.
“I believe that Jeffrey Epstein was a manipulative, cunning and controlling man who lived a profoundly compartmentalized life and fooled all of those in his orbit,” Maxwell said.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/north-dakota">North Dakota</a> officials have questions and residents are furious about a major land grab by a trust linked to billionaire and anti-meat zealot <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bill-gates">Bill Gates</a>, the nation’s <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielshapiro/2021/01/14/americas-biggest-owner-of-farmland-is-now-bill-gates-bezos-turner/?sh=1adb4fc86096">biggest owner of farmland</a>.
The state bars corporations and limited liability companies from owning or even leasing farmlands or ranches and has other limits on trusts, yet the Red River Trust scooped up a 2,100-acre potato farm late last year for $13.5 million. State Attorney General Drew Wrigley wrote the Kansas-based trust on Tuesday asking what it plans to do with the land, <a href="https://www.agweek.com/business/entity-linked-to-billionaire-bill-gates-pays-13-5-million-for-campbell-farms-north-dakota-farmland">AG Week reported</a>.
“Our office needs to confirm how your company uses this land and whether this use meets any of the statutory exceptions, such as the business purpose exception, so that we may close this case and file it in our inactive files,” the letter stated.
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Bill Gates &#8211; largest land owner in the USA.
All rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. It’s so important that government coercion could be necessary to change attitudes”
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Gates, the mega-rich software developer who wants people to trade meat for plant-based food, owns 242,000 acres of farmland, according to a study by <a href="https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farmland-owner/">Land Report</a>. North Dakotans don’t want corporations squeezing out family farms and widely support a law barring them from buying up acreage.
“I’ve gotten a big earful on this from clear across the state, it’s not even from that neighborhood,” North Dakota Agricultural Commissioner Doug Goehring told <a href="https://www.valleynewslive.com/2022/06/21/billionaire-buys-large-portion-nd-land-prompts-letter-attorney-general/#:~:text=North%20Dakota%20Ag%20Commissioner%20Doug%20Goehring">KFYR-TV</a>. “Those people are upset, but there are others that are just livid about this.”
Goehring said residents feel exploited by wealthy out-of-state people who buy up land in North Dakota “but do not necessarily share the state’s values.”
Red River Trust chief Peter Headley previously headed an agriculture investment platform for Gates, according to the New York Post.
Red River Trust bought Campbell Farms, a family potato farm founded in <a href="https://campbellfarms.net/our-farms/">1978</a> in Grafton, according to <a href="https://www.agweek.com/business/entity-linked-to-billionaire-bill-gates-pays-13-5-million-for-campbell-farms-north-dakota-farmland">AG Week</a>. The trust has 30 days to respond to Wrigley. It it is determined to be in violation of the state law, it would have to divest itself of the property within one year or pay fines.
Gates, who is worth more than $100 billion, <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/14/1018296/bill-gates-climate-change-beef-trees-microsoft/">said last year</a> he wants wealthy countries to give up meat, adding that the government should “use regulation to totally shift the demand.”
“I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,” Gates said. “You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time.”
Gates, who is also active in pushing vaccines for various illnesses, including COVID, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-melinda-gates-announce-divorce">divorced from his wife Melinda</a> last year following reports he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/melinda-gates-bills-work-with-abhorrent-jeffrey-epstein-played-role-in-divorce">associated with Jeffrey Epstein</a>, the pedophile sex trafficker who died mysteriously in a Manhattan jail while awaiting trial.

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As the institutional Left has increasingly demanded “racial equity” – parity between races in everything from income to incarceration rates – it has simultaneously rejected the very thing that evidence suggests could move the needle most: encouraging households headed by two parents.
Children raised by one parent, which is the case for a disproportionate number of minorities, are far more likely to break the law and grow up poor, data shows. And while liberals in the past, including President Clinton, have lamented the breakdown of two-parent households, it is often embraced by modern leftist institutions such as <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020723/https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/">Black Lives Matter</a> which in 2020 called for &#8220;disrupt[ing] the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure.&#8221;
&#8220;Now it’s like they’re celebrating [single motherhood],” said <a href="https://www.aei.org/profile/ian-rowe/">Ian Rowe</a>, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies upward mobility and family formation. &#8220;[Liberals are] saying we should have systems that cater to this, rather than the government saying it’s something to be avoided if possible. The government can never make up for what two married parents can provide for a child.&#8221;
It&#8217;s not just Black Lives Matter that seems to reject the traditional family structure. Well-funded, elite institutions that have traditionally shaped policy from the Left advance the same position through their donations. The Daily Wire analyzed the historical giving of seven of the nation&#8217;s largest philanthropic foundations: the Ford Foundation; Open Society Foundations; Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation; MacArthur Foundation; W.K. Kellogg Foundation; Carnegie Corporation; and Hewlett Foundation. All help set the agenda on social issues in America by steering billions of dollars to woke social groups and causes that see the government, not the family, as key to raising children.
Philanthropic foundations like Ford and Kellogg were founded on a belief in social science, and that by studying how to impact human behavior, wealthy benefactors could make the world a better place. The foundations&#8217; admiration for the field is so great that four of the seven foundations jointly fund the Social Science Research Council, according to tax return data.
In recent years, they have made racial inequality a primary focus. When it comes to &#8220;equity,&#8221; &#8220;inequity,&#8221; and &#8220;equality,&#8221; there are nearly 6,000 grants totaling nearly $4 billion.
These dual priorities would seem to make encouraging intact families a natural fit: Few variables in social science so dramatically predict outcomes as the presence of two parents. Such positive outcomes would reduce racial inequality.
Yet the foundations have almost completely avoided the issue of family structure. Combined, the records showed $110 billion of giving across 131,000 donations. Almost none of it went to promoting marriage or fatherhood.
Only 59 donations, totaling $8.7 million, dealt with fatherhood. And even among these, the largest grant recipient actually appeared to work against intact families, complaining about how delinquent dads were being inconvenienced by being forced to pay child support. The Ford Foundation <a href="https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all?search=%26SearchText%3Dcenter%20for%20family%20policy&amp;page=0&amp;minyear=2006&amp;maxyear=2022">tasked</a> the Center for Family Policy and Practice &#8220;to analyze the impact of state and federal child-support policies and child-support debt on the ability of low-income, noncustodial fathers to achieve economic stability and build assets.&#8221; This and a similar grant totaled about half a million dollars. Then Kellogg paid it another <a href="https://www.wkkf.org/grants/grant/2015/06/making-all-the-ends-meet-a-two-generation-approach-for-children-and-their-mothers-and-fathers-p30319">half-million</a> to &#8220;inform policymakers&#8221; of the research.
In the 1990s, foundations made at least a few grants that promoted fatherhood, such as one to the Institute for Responsible Fatherhood and Family Revitalization to &#8220;expand and replicate a fatherhood responsibility program in cities,&#8221; and another to the Parent Resource Center to &#8220;strengthen parenting skills of high-risk teen fathers through participation in a 20-week group program.&#8221;
But by the 2000s, they appeared not just neutral but hostile to that line of thinking. In 2006, Ford paid $25,000 to a progressive think tank called Political Research Associates to write a pair of reports attacking the push for two-parent households. The first was titled &#8220;Pushed to the Altar: The Right Wing Roots of Marriage Promotion.&#8221;
The second belied a sensitivity to the fact that working against intact families contradicted a large body of work in a field that foundations ordinarily exalted.
&#8220;Social science research is no more rigorous than the standards of the practitioners,&#8221; it <a href="https://politicalresearch.org/sites/default/files/2018-10/marriage-promotion-part-2.pdf">said</a>. &#8220;When those practitioners are using social science trappings to support their ideological positions, it is time for their flawed procedures to be exposed.&#8221;
&#8220;These two reports demonstrate the Right&#8217;s use of federal funds to exert social control and their use of agenda driven treatises, masquerading as science, to justify, and elicit support for, this ideological maneuvering,&#8221; it continued. &#8220;The rightist fatherhood movement relies on biased scholarship to support its assertion that a family is not complete without the presence of a father.”
It said that people who argue that marriage leads to prosperity are violating a &#8220;fundamental rule of social science&#8221; by &#8220;confusing correlation with causality&#8221;: One should not assume people are poor because of a lack of marriage when it could be that &#8220;they are unmarried because they are poor.&#8221;
Christopher Brown, president of the nonpartisan <a href="https://www.fatherhood.org/">National Fatherhood Initiative</a>, said it took only common sense, not a doctoral degree, to reject that.
“Being poor doesn’t cause you to be unmarried,” he told The Daily Wire. “Obviously you have the potential to have more income earners when you have two parents instead of one, especially because income rates are usually measured at the household level.”
The data on foundation grants about &#8220;marriage&#8221; are similar. Since 2011, the foundations spent $5.6 million advancing and celebrating gay marriage rights. But one has to go back to <a href="https://www.wkkf.org:443/grants/grant/1997/06/african-american-couples-mentoring-proj-p0050757">1997</a> to find the last grant attempting to keep heterosexual couples married: A $20,000 donation to &#8220;Increase the likelihood of successful African-American marriages through development of a model African-American Couples Mentoring Program.&#8221;
Even if promoting marriage would do more in the longterm to achieve equality, superficial efforts – such as rejiggering the percentages of minorities on corporate boards – make donors feel good, Brown said.
“If you look at data on why people give to certain causes, it’s because they like to see the effect in terms of direct services. They want to ameliorate the symptoms so they can see the effect, rather than address the root causes,” Brown said.
Only one of the seven philanthropic foundations returned requests for comment.
&#8220;I see the logic in your connection but this is not a research area we are involved with as a philanthropic funder&#8230; We fund a lot of work around family engagement in an education context. Not the direction you are asking about,&#8221; Celeste Ford, a spokeswoman for the Carnegie Corporation, said.
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Rowe, who studies upward mobility and families, previously led charter schools in the Bronx and was deputy director of postsecondary success at the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation. He said what makes foundations&#8217; insistence on spending money on anything but family structure so remarkable is that their existing efforts – geared at “cosmetic” fixes rather than root causes – have little to show for them.
In 2017, Bill Gates <a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/Council-of-Great-City-Schools">acknowledged</a> that despite 17 years of his foundation pouring money into education initiatives, &#8220;schools are still falling short on the key metrics of a quality education.&#8221;
&#8220;Melinda and I made public education our top priority in the U.S. because we wanted to do something about the disparity in achievement and postsecondary success for students of color and low-income students. That inequity persists today,&#8221; he said.
Gates said his &#8220;insights will change what we focus on over the next five years.&#8221; But nowhere in his 3,000 word speech did he say the words &#8220;parents,&#8221; &#8220;family,&#8221; or &#8220;father.&#8221;
Rowe, for his part, said &#8220;What I’m trying to do is encourage philanthropists is to take another look at how they’ve decided to spend their money, because it&#8217;s not working.&#8221;

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Leftist Orgs Decry Inequality, But Abandon The Family – The Key Social Force That Can Fix It

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Bill Gates isn&#8217;t an immunologist and he doesn&#8217;t even play one on TV.
But the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has immersed himself in the study of the world&#8217;s problems and donated billions of dollars to tackle the scourge of malaria in Africa through his philanthropic foundation. So when he speaks, people listen, which makes what he said last week about COVID-19 interesting.
&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t until early February, when I was in a meeting, that experts of the foundation, said &#8216;there&#8217;s no way'&#8221; that COVID-19 could have been contained, he said.
&#8220;At that point, we didn&#8217;t really understand the fatality rate. We didn&#8217;t understand that it&#8217;s a fairly low fatality rate, and that it&#8217;s a disease mainly of the elderly, kind of like the flu, although it&#8217;s a bit different than that,&#8221; Gates said.
He later hedged a bit, saying Americans need to stay vigilant as he criticized the initial response to the virus. &#8220;That was a pretty scary period, where the world didn&#8217;t go on alert, including the United States, nearly as fast as it needed to,&#8221; he said.
Gates also had something to say about the latest variant of the virus and the efficacy of vaccines. &#8220;Once Omicron comes along, the vaccine is not reducing transmission, hardly at all, particularly about three or four months after you take the vaccine,&#8221; he said.
His comments came after top officials at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said much the same thing, that COVID-19 is now akin to the flu.
&#8220;FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock and the agency’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, wrote that COVID-19 will be in circulation for the foreseeable future and must be accepted as another common virus in the Journal of the American Medical Association,&#8221; the Daily Caller <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2022/05/03/fda-covid-19-coronavirus-influenza-flu-vaccine-annual/">reported</a>. &#8220;Like with influenza, this new reality will likely require annual COVID-19 shots to be tailored around the most threatening strains of the virus, the officials wrote.&#8221;
“Widespread vaccine- and infection-induced immunity, combined with the availability of effective therapeutics, could blunt the effects of future outbreaks. Nonetheless, it is time to accept that the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is the new normal,” the officials wrote. “It will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza. And it likely will require similar annual consideration for vaccine composition updates in consultation with the [FDA].”
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

Bill Gates: COVID ‘Disease Of Elderly,’ ‘Low Fatality Rate’ – ‘Kind Of Like The Flu’

Bill Gates Calls COVID A 'Disease Of Elderly' With A 'Low Fatality Rate'

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates told Trevor Noah that it was &#8220;quite clear&#8221; that the novel coronavirus came from animals, ultimately jumping from bats to humans with &#8220;one step in between.&#8221;
Gates laid out an argument, comparing the coronavirus to other viruses like Ebola and HIV and arguing that they had all come from animals first and transmitted to humans via intermediate hosts like chimpanzees. He stopped short of offering a suggestion as to what had been the intermediate host for COVID-19.
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&#8220;How do we prevent something where we don&#8217;t even understand how it came to be?&#8221; Noah asked. &#8220;Like, you know, are there labs where they need to do better at, you know, enclosing the work that they&#8217;re doing? I understand that they have to do the work, but how do we figure that out and how do we move forward in that realm?&#8221;
Gates agreed that lab safety was something everyone should prioritize, but then he pivoted to argue that did not necessarily <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/china-refuses-to-cooperate-with-w-h-o-probe-into-lab-leak-theory-its-against-science/">have any relevance</a> with regard to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.
&#8220;It’s quite clear in this case, that [COVID] came across through animals. And almost all our diseases, like HIV, crossed over from chimpanzees in Africa quite some time ago; Ebola came from bats, this also, with one step in between came across from bats, so it&#8217;s going to keep happening, particularly with climate change where we&#8217;re invading a lot of habitats, and you want to catch it as soon as you can,&#8221; Gates said.
Despite evidence that surfaced very early in the pandemic, Gates is one of several prominent voices continuing to assert that COVID-19 did not <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/greg-gutfeld-offers-advice-to-fauci-after-lab-leak-document-dump-resign-and-get-a-lawyer/">come from a lab</a> — either accidentally or intentionally — and transmitted from bats to humans through an intermediate host. Scientists around the world have been searching for a possible intermediate host since the pandemic began, but have not found anything.

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