Buy clubs, collect: The business model of philanthropists

In Saskatchewan, the government is having holes dug in the prairie – not for oil, not for pipelines, but for dead farm animals. Emergency burial sites, geologically tested and officially planned before any disease has even touched the border fence. It's called preparedness. Or you could call it something else: the funeral is being organized while the patient is still alive and well in the pasture.

Holes first, plague later
The facts are dry enough: The Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture has confirmed that it is examining a site on Crown land in the municipality of Wawken for the large-scale disposal of animal carcasses – "only for emergency situations"Of course. The province maintains its own [organization/institution] for this purpose. Information sheet for emergency disposal sites and recommends that every farm develop a plan for catastrophic total loss. At the same time, Ottawa is providing additional funding: The federal government financed a program for Saskatchewan's pig industry to enable producers to Plans for mass euthanasia and disposal develop. With resounding success: Approximately half of the pig farms The province now has such a culling and disposal plan ready to go. In certain circles, the claim circulates that the planned burial capacity is sufficient for three-quarters of the province's livestock – this figure cannot be substantiated anywhere, and anyone passing it on should clearly state that. Nor is it necessary. The documented facts are entirely sufficient: An administration that prospects for mass graves, promotes culling protocols, and subsidizes large-scale culling is expecting large-scale culling. The only remaining questions are who provides the pretext and who will be responsible for the empty barn afterward.

The dress rehearsal has already taken place.
Anyone wanting to know what this looks like in practice doesn't need to speculate. In the USA, since 2022, measures have been taken due to avian influenza. Over 200 million birds destroyedIn the spring of 2026, the authorities reported the thousandth "depopulated" commercial stock – a term that sounds like it came from a military manual, and indeed, it did. The consumer footed the bill at the egg counter, while since the end of 2024 alone... Compensation payments exceeding $1,25 billion The money flowed to the companies, which then merrily continued as before. Denmark suspended all [businesses] in 2020. Kill 17 million farmed mink —without any legal basis, as a parliamentary commission of inquiry later determined. The commission also accused the head of government of having "grossly misled" the public. The consequence: a reprimand. The mink remained dead, their carcasses resurfaced as putrefying zombies from their mass graves and had to be exhumed and incinerated; the industry was destroyed. Kill first, then introduce the law, then express regret—the pattern is tried and tested, and it works brilliantly.

Politics as a wrecking ball
And where there isn't a tangible epidemic, the climate does. The Netherlands, the world's second-largest agricultural exporter, offered The closure of approximately 3000 livestock farms up to 120 percent of the company's value – almost one and a half billion euros, personally approved by Brussels, garnished with a lifetime ban on practicing in the entire EUdSSR and the open announcement that the compulsory round will follow the voluntary one.

In Ireland, the Ministry of Agriculture calculated the cost to taxpayers of culling 200,000 dairy cows – when the document was exposed, the official reassurance was that it was merely a "modeling document." Of course. After all, one only models the cost of slaughtering a tenth of the national herd for amusement. The fact that the missing Irish milk and cattle would simply be replaced by imports with a far worse carbon footprint was indeed presented in the Irish Parliament – ​​but who cares about arithmetic when the narrative is so appealing? The farmer is to be forced out, that much is certain. The only remaining negotiation is the vocabulary used to deliver the news.

The philanthropist is already waiting
Who benefits when barns stand empty and farms are put up for sale? Coincidentally, precisely those people who have been telling us how we should eat for years. Bill Gates is one of them. With nearly 100,000 hectares, the largest private farmland owner in the USAThe same Gates announced in an interview with MIT Technology Review that all rich countries should focus on "100 percent synthetic beef" Switching over – if necessary through regulation; one gets used to the difference in taste. That he simultaneously invested in Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods, and other cultured meat companies is, of course, pure altruism, the kind only... self-proclaimed philanthropists The script is disarmingly simple: First, traditional animal farming is attacked with the logic of disease control, climate targets, and nitrogen limits; then the savior appears with a bioreactor, patent portfolio, and licensing fees. How that tastes remains to be seen. Here in this country, you can already see cocoa being produced.Whoever controls soil, seeds, and meat substitutes no longer needs an army. They only need a state of emergency with a prepared pit. And, as the past few years have vividly demonstrated, states of emergency are the only commodity that is never in short supply in the West.

The question remains: what exactly is being prepared here? And this question isn't directed at the farmers. They aren't digging holes in advance. The state is digging the holes, the administration is drawing up the plans, and as always, the farm at the end of the road is footing the bill. An industry that has produced real food for generations is being treated like a minor incident. And the boundlessly greedy masters of big money are quietly clapping their hands, because every slaughtered animal represents market share, every abandoned farm a plot of land, every crisis a business model! The food system isn't on the verge of collapse—it's on the verge of being taken over! And the pit being dug for livestock today will be tomorrow's foundation for the feeding trough from which we are all supposed to eat!