Posted on 02/16/2021 7:14:34 AM PST by karpov
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Q: Do you think plant-based and lab-grown meats could be the full solution to the protein problem globally, even in poor nations? Or do you think it’s going to be some fraction because of the things you’re talking about, the cultural love of a hamburger and the way livestock is so central to economies around the world?
A: For Africa and other poor countries, we’ll have to use animal genetics to dramatically raise the amount of beef per emissions for them. Weirdly, the US livestock, because they’re so productive, the emissions per pound of beef are dramatically less than emissions per pound in Africa. And as part of the [Bill and Melinda Gates] Foundation’s work, we’re taking the benefit of the African livestock, which means they can survive in heat, and crossing in the monstrous productivity both on the meat side and the milk side of the elite US beef lines.
So no, I don’t think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic meat. I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand.
So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it’s possible. But it’s one of those ones where, wow, you have to track it every year and see, and the politics [are challenging]. There are all these bills that say it’s got to be called, basically, lab garbage to be sold. They don’t want us to use the beef label.
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A: [To offset] my own emissions, I’ve bought clean aviation fuel.
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But Bill! What about the high levels of Estrogen in plant based meat?
My thoughts exactly! No one voted for Gates and no one wants to be exposed every day to his droolings. His opinions are nothing. Every time the media spits his droolings at us all, I feel like I need a shower to wash the poison off. Gates makes my skin crawl at almost the level of Obimbo.
If global warming is worth any sacrifice, why doesn’t he set an example by living in an average-sized home and use the money he saves to buy even more carbon offsets?
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He pontificates and lectures to us because he thinks he’s the smartest man in the universe. Yet he is a college drop out.
What rock has this SOB crawled out from under lately?
I didn’t dislike him quite as much when he was just distributing his money behind the scenes to entities that wish to destroy this country.
Now, I can barely go online without hearing him blather about something.
I am starting to view him in the same light as Soros.
> [To offset] my own emissions, I’ve bought clean aviation fuel. <
Buying carbon offsets doesn’t change a damn thing in the real world. It just shifts the emissions from one column to another. But it sure does make the purchaser feel caring and virtuous.
But wait. It gets worse. The rich can easily afford to buy carbon offsets. The middle class and the poor, not so much.
Only after a pie hits him.
YOU are an IDIOT!
Your list of "should" in life are UPSIDE DOWN!!!
GOD has a "Should" List. Try living up to that one first!
More Friday night frat house beer bust talk. Worth even less.
Oh, no no no! The elites are exempt, don-cha-know...
I’m old enough to remember when this guy was useful.
Steve Jobs should have lived, and Bill Gates should have assumed room temperature instead.
Commonly known as “mystery meat.”
That will surely cure them being rich...
I’ll bet he eats wagyo or kobe or martian beef himself, or whatever the latest trend is, just like his jet setting hero Hussein.
Billionaires are perfect ingredients for great Soylent Green.
Soylent Green is people!
‘If God wanted us to eat lab meat, he never would have put the beasts and plants upon the earth.’
if god wished us to eat ‘lab meat’ (cultured beef, in actuality) and didn’t put beasts on the earth as you suggest, then we couldn’t eat ‘lab meat’, and his wishes would be foiled...
because cows is where cultured beef comes from...
Yet he is a college drop out.Saying the founder of Microsoft dropped out of college doesn't really make your case...
Nor does it say having a college education is the answer to success.
Eat More Beef!!
Bill Gates started his fortune by the rather ingenious concept of giving away MS DOS. It became almost universal and allowed him to make a fortune on the software to run on it.
Now that he wants to ween everyone off beef, guess who owns the most farmland (not ranchland) in the USA?
Gates has more than 242,000 acres of farmland. What will be needed to produce the fake beef and where will it be grown?
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