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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Its also been asserted that lab-grown meat is healthier than the real thing: its 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 arent 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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“Its also been asserted that lab-grown meat is healthier than the real thing: its free of antibiotics, dangerous bacteria, and growth-promoting hormones.”
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F that. I dont want meat grown in some lab. I like God’s natural environment, providing me with good nutritous meals after they are killed.
I made some goose sausage two weekends ago that will make you want to live in the archaic days. My 12 year old skinny thin daughter hammered out 4 bratwurst-style. I was impressed.
Plants have feelin’s too. And some eat MEAT!
Wait til those animals eat all the vegan food. lol
NEXT.......canib...I hope not.
Then everyone will die. The Socialist Paradise of Venezuela told their citizens to raise and eat rabbits to prevent starvation.
I agree...
Soilent orange and then followed by soilent green.
Read a 20 question interview of him once.
Q: "How do you become a millionaire?"
A: "Easy. Start with a billion, and then buy an airline."
Soylent green is people!!!
Not sure - he started the Virgin Group.
I thought it was music/entertainment that started it all for him.
A former boss rubbed elbows with Branson several times. I was NOT impressed by the stories he brought back from The Island.
LOL! That was good!
Record store chain.
Where does your food come from? The grocery store.
“Well Think Its Archaic to Kill Animals for Food”
But butchering babies for convenience will be just fine.
In the near future, we’ll think it’s “archaic” to kill unborn members of our own species for convenience.
He’s the guy whose idea of airplane nose art is a half naked painting of his mother.
Prolly tastes like chicken.
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