Richard Branson is predicting the end of meat in 30 years. Will he be right?

AOL Finance ^ | September 29, 2017 | Tim Mulkerin, Mic

[2ndDivisionVet]

Think you can’t live a fulfilling life without eating traditional meat? Richard Branson, billionaire founder of Virgin Group, thinks you can. In fact, he thinks meat as we know it will be completely different in just a few decades.

“I believe that in 30 years or so, we will no longer need to kill any animals and that all meat will either be clean or plant-based, taste the same and also be much healthier for everyone,” Branson wrote in a blog post about Virgin’s investment in Memphis Meats, a company that synthesizes meat using real animal cells. “One day we will look back and think how archaic our grandparents were in killing animals for food.”

It’s impossible to say for sure whether Branson’s claim will come to fruition, but he’s right about one thing: Interest in meat alternatives are at an all-time high, and they could play an important role in slowing climate change.

Currently, the meat industry is responsible for about 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions, degrades the effectiveness of our antibiotics and pollutes our water — to say nothing of the ethics of raising hundreds of millions of animals who rarely, if ever, get the chance to go outside before getting slaughtered.....

[varon]

Richard Branson is predicting the end of meat in 30 years.

If it will stop Asians from butchering dogs for food then I'm all for it.............

[elcid1970]

I go lo-carb. I’ve about cut out all the white foods: bread, pasta, potatoes, sugar, & pasta. Unfortunately this includes beer (liquid bread?)

I call this The Al Sharpton Diet. Its motto: “WHITE is not RIGHT!!!”

;^)

[bgill]

all meat will either be clean or plant-based

Must be like that vegetarian gal I know is too stupid to know what those white cubes in her pork 'n beans are and who orders pepperoni pizza and tosses the pepperonis in the trash.

I predict Branson will be worm food in 30 years.

[bgill]

Really rich people (billionaires and hundred millionaires) seem to live longer these days. I’m pretty sure they are receiving medical care that’s not available to us yet.

After her potato sack collapse at the 9/11 Memorial, Hellary came out a couple hours later a whole new woman.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Isn’t it wonderful how being a billionaire gives you god-like powers?

[bgill]

[mass55th]

I won’t be around in 30 years to have to worry about it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I saw that once during my first tour in Korea but I’m told it’s dying out there.