The following report is by AgFunder News:
This past October, the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration chose Indiana as one of 31 designated tech hubs across the country. Branded Heartland Bioworks, the designation could translate to millions in funding to advance biotech innovation across agriculture, animal health and human health in the Hoosier state.
“There’s an intersection that is undeniable between plant science, animal health and human health,” says Mitch Frazier, CEO of AgriNovus Indiana, an initiative growing agbioscience innovation in Indiana.
In a recent conversation with AgFunderNews, he noted:
Indiana is home to the largest pure-play ag company in the world with Corteva; the second-largest independent animal health company with Elanco, and the most valuable human pharma company in Eli Lilly.
On top of all that, Indiana holds 23 million acres of farmland within its borders and is less than a day’s drive to most of Middle America, where the bulk of commodity farming happens. Indiana University, home to the largest medical school in the country, and ag education heavyweight Purdue University also call Indiana home.
Imagine biotech innovation in plant science that produces improved animal feed that increases animal protein production and reduces environmental impact. Now imagine that improved animal protein delivering even greater human health attributes through the power of biological innovation to ultimately improve human health and nutrition.
Biological innovation at the intersection of plants, animals and people is essential to the future of the food system and health. There’s no other metro in the world that has the collective strength of innovation assets across plant science, animal health and human health that is present in Indianapolis.
Says Frazier
More Than A Century In The Making
Indiana’s strength in innovation across human health, plant science and animal health stretches back more than a century.
In 1876, Colonel Eli Lilly founded Eli Lilly, Chemist in Indianapolis. The business would eventually become Eli Lilly and Company, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
Lilly formed Elanco in 1950, releasing the company’s first antibiotic for veterinary use three years later. Elanco eventually separated from Lilly and debuted on the New York Stock Exchange in 2018. Since then, the company has broken ground just west of downtown Indianapolis where they are building what Elanco CEO Jeff Simmons calls the global epicenter for animal health innovation.
“With a designation and accompanying resources, we can rethink what collaboration between industry partners and universities looks like, delivering life-changing innovations faster and more efficiently,” Simons tells AgFunderNews.
Because of the rich history of our industry and world-class universities, we have an opportunity to emerge as the preeminent leader in bio-life sciences innovation and manufacturing. What the designation will allow us to focus on is building a durable future for our economy centered around innovation and making the lives of people and animals around the world better.
In 1989, Eli Lilly and agrochemical giant Dow formed DowElanco, through which they began to produce agricultural products. Dow acquired 100% ownership of DowElanco in 1997 and renamed the company Dow AgroSciences. Following a merger with DuPont in 2011, the company became agricultural juggernaut DowDuPont, which emerged as a standalone publicly-traded company in 2019. Corteva established its existing Indianapolis location as its global headquarters in 2022.
“The state of Indiana could be a global hub for human health, for plant health and for animal health,” Corteva Agriscience CEO Chuck Magro said during a fireside chat at a recent Economic Club of Indiana luncheon.
We have major players in the state of all three and the actual science, the skills, the infrastructure, everything that we all need, is very similar. Once you understand how the genetics work, it doesn’t matter if you’re looking at plants, animals or humans. The opportunity would be the same and I think there’s just a huge amount of leverage we can put in when we work together.
Go back to Lilly and you begin to see this isn’t something that just emerged. This is something that is now possible because we have three independent publicly held companies with their global headquarters located mere miles from one another in Indianapolis.
Frazier says
A Thriving Startup Scene
The collective presence of Lilly, Corteva and Elanco are creating a foundation of talent and know-how to create an ecosystem of startups to advance innovation across animal and human health as well as agriculture.
Five of the top six venture capital investments in Indiana in 2022 were made into agbioscience and life sciences companies, according to the Indianapolis Business Journal. One of those was a $40 million investment in BiomEdit, a startup developer of microbiome-derived solutions for animal health. Led by former Elanco R&D chief Aaron Schacht, the company recently netted a $4.5M grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to advance the company’s science to reduce methane emissions for beef and dairy cattle and enhance feed efficiency.
SEE: Bill Gates Invests In Company That Produces Formulas To Reduce Carbon Emissions In Cattle
Schacht is one of many who have built careers in one of the region’s life sciences and agbioscience giants and are now leading startups in the space.
Andy Eibling spent more than a decade at Lilly before heading to his current role as CEO of GeniPhys, which is developing Collymer technology for collagen materials that can improve tissue regeneration in swine.
Simran Trana, current head of IP and licensing at flavor restoration company True Essence Foods, spent several years at Dow Agro/Corteva as well as Purdue and Indiana Universities.
Liane Hart spent nine years at Elanco before founding Verility, which is developing fertility analysis products for livestock producers.
There are countless other startups in the region advancing biological innovation – from Liberation Labs, which just secured funds to build a precision fermentation facility in the state, to Insignum AgTech, a biotech startup using gene editing to help plants “talk” to farmers when they’re in distress.
Toward The Next Decade
Frazier says the region will need to continue to create collisions between human health, plant science and animal health.
“The division between plant science, animal science and human health is blurrier by the day,” says Andrew Kossack, executive vice president, partnerships and general counsel at Applied Research Institute, the lead applicant for the U.S. Department of Commerce Tech Hub designation.
The designation of a biotech hub from the Department of Commerce brought together people from across all of these disciplines. Now we have to continue to work together to create the economy of the future and for the benefit of Indiana.
That benefit, he adds, could stretch beyond the state’s borders.
“I would argue the innovations that are possible could have a global impact,” he says.
“We all know the food chain impacts human health and it’s all connected. A lot of what we’re seeing out of global health and federal health agencies is on the entire biological spectrum. So I think we will be aligned with those mission sets that our federal partners are going to be focused on in the near term, certainly,” says Kossack.
To learn more about Heartland Bioworks, you can listen to their recent episode of the Agbioscience podcast or visit them here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
As a Hoosier born and raised, this is definitely disappointing to read, but not surprised at this point about much that goes on in this crazy world.
Take note of this map of America the elites intend for this country by 2050:
Buying land in Indiana is way overpriced and expensive, and therefore simply unattainable for most. A lot of people would not know it, but Indiana is for many of the well-off and elite class, sort of a hidden treasure in middle America; full of resources, great weather year-round, nothing too extreme. So, to see the federal government and these crooked investors looking to, basically, rape the land and steal its resources, and build their mansions on these lands, and build fake meat factories is not surprising.
SEE: Indiana To Build Biomanufacturing To Process Plant-Based Meats
Also, it is important to remember that two politicians from Indiana, since-deceased Jackie Walorski (R) and Mike Braun (R), were apart of a bipartisan deal with President Biden to launch a health conference to help reform the failed health standards in this country; which resulted in some goober who is funded by Gates, who promotes this arbitrary ranking system that claims that fake eggs, Lucky Charms, and almond M&Ms are healthier than ground beef and real eggs… SEE: Head Of Biden’s Nutrition Conference Summit Says Highly-Processed And Sugary Junk Food Is Better Than Beef And Eggs
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. 1 Timothy 4:1-3
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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As a Hoosier by heritage this is very upsetting.
That satanic little dork poindexter Bill Gates wants to conquer every corner of the world.
As kids, we thought evil looked like a devil with big horns, a tail, a pitchfork, flaming eyes, and vampire – like fangs; but now we see that evil looks more like Bill Gates.
You couldn’t of said it an better!! He’s the DEVIL
I guess I should not be surprised but I am a little .
I grew up and live in southern Indiana .
It appears that the article is correct as per the facts put out . ( Going from reason and best memory ) .
A couple I would take to task .
“Buying land in Indiana is way overpriced and expensive, and therefore simply unattainable for most. “
Ok compared to where ? I am not saying it is not cheap , but I believe it to not be when taken into context of the country at large . Maybe he is talking tillable land only . Don’t know .
A lot of people would not know it, but Indiana is for many of the well-off and elite class, sort of a hidden treasure in middle America; “
I dispute that . But then again I’m not elite so I don’t run in those circles . NOW has there been a lot of wealth from business produced in Indiana in the past . Yes . We use to have a lot of factory production and pharma . Not like it was but some still here . Many men became millionaires from it . Some still do .
I don’t know what classifies as elite . And maybe they own land and homes I am unaware of . Now with that said , and I have to pass this as rumor . Had a HS teacher that said that at one time … I assume he meant in the 60’s . That Indiana had more millionaires per capita than any other state I think for one year . As I said he told the class that AND my memory of his statement is over 50 years old . FWIW .
‘ full of resources,”
Well ….. kinda … the biggest resource is the farm land . We at one time in like the 60’s ?? It was said we produced more corn than any other state at that time .
Water . In the PAST we have had plenty of water . Good rain fall , decent and plentiful ground water . Rivers on two state boundaries and a couple through the state and the Great Lakes on the north boundary . We do have coal . Not huge but we do have coal and nat. gas . Oil a little . Mining I am not aware of .
“ great weather year-round, nothing too extreme. “
The first part no . Now is it Alaska ? No. Is it sunny AZ or CA NO. Is it the worst in the country no. Are there states with it a lot better . Yep . Just drive south on I-65 and in few hours you’re in TN or SC.
The second part – nothing too extreme . Well he’s right to a point . It can get to 101 in the summer with 80% humidity and in winter it can get 20 below zero . NOW are those extremes for here . Yes . Does last fore weeks no. Can it ? From time to time yes .
I would put this out . I have a friend that lives just a couple miles from me . He is in the Nat. Guard . He has cross trained with some Spec Ops guys in the past . Back in what the 90’s ?? When there was a big push to close military bases to save money .
Camp Atterbury ( south of Indy by 50 miles and on the north part of the county I live in ) ( 1942 created – POW WW 2 Germans Italians , WW2 Hospital – hence the road going into is is Hospital Road – size 34,000 acres . Still used for training from services from all a cross the country . ) Any way the DOD was looking to close it and according to my friend . The Navy SEALS went to the DOD and said don’t do it . Why ? The SEALS said we need it for sniper training . Why ? Because the weather can change there so quickly and extremely . That if you can shoot accurately in Indiana you can shoot anywhere in the world . OK ? That sounds a little extreme to me BUT I’m not a trained sniper . That is the story I pass again as rumor . But my buddy was pretty sure it happened , so ????
Largest employer in Indiana ? IU , Indiana University . Now that is not easy to find and sorry I could not get a link to support this . Bear in mind IU is just not Bloomington IN campus , it has others and it is not just education there is also IU Health . They have bought up a lot of hospitals . Bought out or absorbed a bunch of private practices . IE Obama care and high cost of malpractice insurance that forced Dr’s to join them or have to quit practice . Also IU is what you might call an OGA – Other Gov . Agency . They do make a profit , if you will , sports , tuition , medical charges . But they are a creation of the State and do receive state funds .
So the quotes I posted from the article I think on the whole are not an accurate opinion . They are taken from a paragraph just below a pic of the map of the US in the section : Author Commentary . He states he was born and raised here . Well so was I and I still live here.
https://winepressnews.com/2023/12/17/indiana-set-to-become-national-hub-in-bioscience-and-agricultural-innovation-sees-investments-from-bill-gates-and-big-pharma/
A couple things I would add , again a FWIW comment .
If you look at Indiana’s geographic location it looks like it’s not that central . That’s correct and it’s not . I wish I had the exact state that I read one time .. sorry again. Indianapolis is like 6 hours drive ( ?? ) from like 50% ( ??? ) of the manufacturing or industry in the country . Again sorry for being vague . Look on a map an look at the interstates that go through this medium size state a look at what cities are connected to them with in say 6- 10 -12 drive
https://citiesnear.com/Indianapolis/6-hours
Indiana is a good place for distribution to a large population east of the Mississippi .
Thanks Duncan Adams
I loved the bit about plants talking to farmers when they are hurting?! Farmer Bill, asks #5763 Cargill stock of corn, “my ears are short, hows about some roids?”
Anything involving health, man or animal and agriculture that lil Bill touches is doomed.
1876 COLONEL Eli Lilly….isn’t that interesting? Pay off for participating in the fake race agitations of the forms of godliness denying the power resulting in the Civil War and assassination of Abraham Lincoln who likely WAS truly saved after Gettysburg, seeing some ‘history’ unfolding, developing cold feet and favoring amnesty for the southern states whose majority commoner soldiers fought for states rights and liberty, resisting centralization & corporatism?? During the age of ‘progress’ that was trumpeted by all the dominionist Augustinian daughters & corporatists?
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Rome off-shored and killed a lot of poor & ignorant, superstitious and easily manipulated Catholics in that war, too. A war that never would have happened had the agitations north and south, the ‘push’ of the false flag at Fort Sumpter and the financing of Jeff Davis’ Confederacy with Vatican gold never happened.
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All that the powers that were at the time had to do to achieve a peaceful abolition was to follow the lead of Wilberforce & how the British Evangelical Bible believers had achieved abolition peacefully….while honestly exposing all the money & power that shifted the emphasis of the evil trade legalized by the Dum Diversas papal bull from Europe and Great Britain to here.
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Shades of Michael King and his aliases. Shades of confusing the archangel Michael with Jesus? as all those race-driven and wicked cults and useful idiots so easily driven due to not being anchored to the Rock and truth? The Rock that IS the way, the life and the truth?
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And, ag antibiotic development 1950?
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Right after the influx of euthanasia masters and chemists from Germany with Project Paperclip.
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Soulish and spiritual poison coming in with Kinsey and the psych-sorcerer, ‘scientizing’ of ritual abuse & the normalizing of the practices of Leviticus 18 KJB for which God sent the Israelites in to judge Canaan for? That was Hoosier and Ohio State, too. Kinsey was at Indiana University, branching out to Ohio State U.
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Remember the tie-in to vaccine research that was carried on first in Germany because it was more ‘progressive’ and advanced in the reinstituting of paganism via philosophy, scientism & the Jesuit Teilhard du Jardin and Darwin’s ‘scientific evolutionary’ vehicle?
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They had plenty of post-war aborted flesh to experiment with over there, while they worked on ‘progressing’ Americans to the point of biblical ignorance & conscientious dulling to receive & legalize it here in 1978.
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Bel and Nebo always travel together. ‘Jupiter’ and ‘Hermes’….science and the ‘arts’, the mouthpiece and ‘magic’, the medium for social soul-killing trance-formation and addiction to sin, utter emphasis on the material and flesh. Not to mention Beast and harlot Jezebel. Lots of gold, of the fools’ gold variety, even fiat in ‘the spirit of humanity’; & less and less silver until there was practically none of either.
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Spoiled. And children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. The fruit of the vine of Sodom is bitter, and nobody blame shifts better!
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There was that female researcher who blew the whistle on the vaccine contamination with cancer back in the ’50’s….and the tie-in to JFK’s assassination involving the vaccine research that was being done in New Orleans, Rome’s Marxist arm through Castro & the Russian & Eastern European bloc where they could develop a lot more ‘technique’ for ‘transformation’ behind the ‘Curtain’ while making their war-bucks and destroying any remnants of Bible believers & Bible belief & their fruit in those places.
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Fornication, murder and abortion are common & enforced ways of life in those places, and they used aborted baby tissue in vaccine development in Europe and Germany prior to getting it passed & accepted here. Then for genetic research.
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Remember how the euthanasia enthusiasts and genetic hygiene neo-Platonists & ‘rogue’ Catholics like Sanger were so envious of what Hitler was able to get away with that they couldn’t in ‘backwards’ 1920’s America while they worked up ‘the crash’ after the establishment of the unconstitutional Fed and passage of the gubmint bloating ‘income tax’?
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Had to keep all those remaining ignorant & backwards KIng James Bible believers who were resisting and recalcitrant to their cruel & vile new scientific and progressive evolutionary agenda busy with War and Depression, the new ‘arts’ of cinema & trash activist literature, mass consumerism etc.
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Remember how the humanist society decided they had to ‘pry the peoples’ fingers off of their King James Bibles’ if they were going to be able to ‘progress’ us toward their new world order ‘hope’ & salvation? Making Common Cause with the Catholic bible corruptors left and right? And, just where did all those ‘new’ type Bible ‘scholars’ come from?
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Kittel with his Stuttgarthensia? (Shades of kinderGARTEN, initiations into the occult earth & creature worship …and ‘The Protocols…’ to stir up more Jew-hate) and all those other German, Spanish, & Italian scholars?
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Lots of paperclip scientists went into Catholic strongholds like New Orleans, St. Louis, Chicago etc, as well as into ‘education’ like Kinsey’s ‘researchers’ & sources of material at Indiana U. Going also into the ‘arts’, corporate America and military connected endeavors.
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No doubt Ruckman had sort of an inside eye into some of that given the military family & tie-in’s to White Sands and such that he had: truly a ‘dangerous’ man to be ‘handled’ carefully for the damage he could to if addressed honestly & openly. Better marginalized and handled ‘sideways’.
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It was the covert agencies, tied in to Rome, who were the directors involved in giving these embedded folks new identities, placing and distributing them, etc.
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And what an exploitable ‘hook’ and ‘hold’ they had over those people, too: comply or we’ll out you as a nazi and hand you over to the Anti-Defamation League, the early infiltrated & taken John Birch Society, & such.
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Central and South America received even MORE of them via the Ratlines, but there they chose to retain more of the medieval old Romish order that they’re aiming for here & only achieving openly in more recent years, not able to attain it until they had sufficiently ‘Balaam’ed & Jezebel’d the people, God had sufficiently given people over, finding few uncompromised to stand in the gap (and what did Moses have but a handful? Joshua and Caleb, Phinehas…), and with judgment becoming a given consequence of the growth of corruption & sin?
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Now shifting the center back to Europe, Asia & Africa …..the BRICS….and that cup of trembling there at the intersection and birthplace of all civilization? Jerusalem and Babel, Christ and antichrist….the most ancient war.
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And the Du Pont’s in the midst of it… Good grief.
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Gates’ family got in there through their involvement in the promotional success of fornication and abortion, and monopolizing digital for the ‘masters’.
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What a web & delivery system of slow poisoning, destruction & death they’ve woven in their sin, deceit and covetousness: ‘their struggle’/Mein Kampf against God and truth: but it’s not going to be sufficient to cover them on that Day, & it is not wise to trust the unfaithful father of lies & king over all the children of pride. Whether we’re talking about that final, or the day they meet the Lord at death: it won’t cover. Isaiah 59 KJB.
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Written to the Jews. The Gentile Christian tie-in at Romans 11 KJB. Very applicable, and leading straight to the crusade of Ezekiel 38-39, and the fulfillment of the book of Revelation chapters 6-19 KJB, the groundwork of which we see being laid before our amazed & wondering eyes, shades of John’s wonder & amazement, or Daniel’s. Can the catching away be too far distant? Hand to the plow, eye to the sky, weapons at hand….spiritual & of fleshly defense & protection both. Even to die before: no disgrace, and far better than to live to draw a few more fleeting breaths through compromise with that subtle and seductive, treacherous, corrupting, antichrist thing.
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Stand.