A comment on the video (not mine)
Bill Gates is the single largest contributor to food insecurity on the planet.
Covid has been used to crush agriculture.
I am a mushroom grower, a small one.....I sold to pebble beach, Bernardus lodge...pretty much most of Monterey's best restaurants. The policies adopted by those "Covid people", of which Gates figures prominently, have put 99 percent of my customers out of business.
What's worse, the small guys are being finished off now as now I compete with people who produce 15k pounds per week. Those growers would never consider dealing with the small vendors, and hotels that "were" in my client base. Now I am in direct competition with monster producers, and I can't compete, except on quality and freshness, but the convenience and price have made the playing field skewed, and all my clients are leaving me.
Take me, and multiply that out over all of California, and you see the real damage coming......these small farms have no cushion, state subsidies, etc....they are all going out of business, as the largest producers try to stay afloat.
It's simply taking slack from supply, there is a glut, but it's short lived, as all the small people capitulate, selling everything for what ever anyone will pay. lower prices go to levels that are a slow bleed for the growers on the edge, as price will not support the businesses, even more failed farms. The next year, while the worst of the food issues in the macro picture comes to the fore, all the small players that would have picked up the slack, are gone.
What's worse, in California the regulations on food sold in corporate entities will make it impossible for the small farmers, after all this drain on the funds, spending extra to comply with needless regulations is tantamount to even more centralized ag. Most everyone seems content to participate is the worst famine the earth has seen.....the one coming!