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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Why should I give up meat? Meat will eventually go to feed either ME, vultures, coyotes, maggots or worms.
SOYLENT GREEN comes to mind for some reason.
Yep, we’re just going to go to sleep one night and forget a couple million years of history, then wake up with a hankering for tofu.
I know a girl who lives on the hill
She won’t do it but her sister will.
Leave my aunt nancy out of this. She’s a Wonderful Woman.
And cooks great lasagna.
You win.
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If God had not intended man to eat animals why did he make them out of meat?
Well I would never kill just for sport.
Further he assumed these places will never have power problems and contamination problems. How long can a vat go without power before its too unsafe to eat?
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