Posted on 09/29/2017 12:45:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Branson along with Bill Gates, Cargill, and Kimball Musk, backed the Memphis Meats clean-meat startup in its $17 million Series A round, which went on to raise in excess of $22 million. Memphis Meats will join a cadre of sustainable food businesses such as the three Israeli companies — Meat the Future, Future Meat Technologies, and SuperMeat — which will supply food to China as part of a $300 million deal. Branson, who gave up meat in 2014, appears to be investing in alignment with his beliefs and predictions about the future, all while trying to act against the deforestation caused by agribusiness; a known contributing factor to climate change.
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It’s also been asserted that lab-grown meat is healthier than the real thing: it’s free of antibiotics, dangerous bacteria, and growth-promoting hormones. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization, classified red meats as “probably carcinogenic to humans” and processed meats as “carcinogenic to humans.” The director of the IARC also supported limited intake of meat as a public health matter. Although researchers aren’t certain which elements of animal meat are potentially carcinogenic, they suspect that heme iron might be to blame — something that lab-grown meat can be made without. Lab-grown meat can also be created free —or nearly free of saturated fat — and therefore cholesterol, another health concern often attributed to meat consumption.
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I don’t kill ‘em; I just eat ‘em.
Weirdo.
Richard WHO?
Obama’s latest “sqeeze”?
I have a warm spot for all of God’s creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.
Don’t they just grow the meat in the back room at Safeway?
“Squeeze”.
Blasted cracked screen makes it hard to read what I type.
Gagh is best served live.
Disconnect people from agriculture for more control over them.
Not hardly. You leftists have tried all kinds of gimmicks but failed.
In the future only the really rich will be able to
afford real meat and the real poor will be punished
for killing animals for food.
Welcome to the liberal future.
I guess the old bloke does not like a good steak...
I Timothy 4:1-5
Comes to mind. Branson is just playing out his part in the deception.
tick tick tick Waiting for Ted Nugent to read and comment on.
Doesn’t he have a balloon to crash or something else more useful to the world?
Did he start out in the airline industry?
“Future meat”
Mmmm..that even sounds delicious.
They’ll just go to Safeway for their food.
Moron has no understanding of life, biology, physiology, etc. Mankind eats animals because that’s the way we’re designed and made. The leason here is just because a person is successful in one endeavor does not mean he knows anything..
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