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Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef
MIT Technology Review ^ | February 14, 2021 | James Temple

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: beef; billgates; climatechange; globalwarming
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To: karpov

I think someone in Texas freezing without power should give this college drop out the business end of a shovel!


81 posted on 02/16/2021 9:42:05 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: karpov

Bill Gates should have shut up before the country found out he is a looney tune!


82 posted on 02/16/2021 9:58:25 AM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EQ)
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To: Starboard

Unfortunately not in the contemporary indoctrination centers of “learning”!


83 posted on 02/16/2021 10:24:21 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: mrsmel
Exactly. Plenty of pics of him eating diner burgers with Buffet, here he is (and he is getting FAT) eating pizza rolls.


84 posted on 02/16/2021 10:25:00 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: karpov

He Billy boy! Eat all that chit you want but leave me alone!


85 posted on 02/16/2021 10:44:24 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

GATES-—assisted by Fauci.


86 posted on 02/16/2021 11:21:45 AM PST by ridesthemiles ( )
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