Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef. He Has a Point.
- Bill Gates suggests synthetic beef like Beyond Meat is a key part of climate action.
- Lab-grown meat still has extremely high costs, but taste-wise, it has passed muster.
- Gates pushes meat alternatives because of meat’s high cost in global emissions.
Bill Gates has a big idea to fight climate change. The Microsoft cofounder and chair of the investment fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures recently suggested that “all rich countries should move to 100 [percent] synthetic beef” in an interview with MIT Technology Review.
Why is Gates, a direct and indirect investor in brands like Beyond Meats and Impossible Foods, pushing for synthetic meat—particularly synthetic beef—as a climate solution?
As The Western Journal points out, the Food and Agricultural Organization predicted a global shortage of protein-rich foods following the COVID-19 pandemic wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and approximately one billion people in the world suffer from protein deficiency, according to the Cornell Alliance for Science.
In wealthier nations, then, synthetic beef is a good place to start to solve that protein problem—and slow the effects of climate change, too. Here’s Gates, via the Technology Review:
“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. But […] 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.”
Different agricultural and food lobbies around the world have pushed for regulation so that, for example, consumers can legally complain that vegan restaurants don’t serve them animal products. These same kinds of laws also protect consumers from “chocolate flavored candy” instead of chocolate, for example, or “processed cheese food” instead of cheese. But lately, products like Beyond Meat have made headway in being shelved next to the real meat where consumers can see and grab them.
This is good, because the problem Gates is identifying is huge. Agriculture accounts for 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. alone, where we have some of the most efficient agriculture in the world to produce our meat and dairy. Gates says developing nations with less advanced farming have an even longer way to go toward agricultural carbon neutrality.
When Gates refers to synthetic meat, he’s likely talking about the growing market of very sophisticated vegan meat alternatives like Beyond Meat, but he’s also an investor in at least one true “lab meat” startup. These companies grow individual chunks of muscle tissue—that’s what meat is—separately from any living animal.
Why is beef such a focus for these companies? Because raising beef uses a lot more resources than poultry or even pork, per Smithsonian, making beef a key item that suppliers are keen to replace in consumers’ minds. “If you want to help the planet but can’t bring yourself to give up meat entirely, eliminating beef from your diet is the next-best thing,” Smithsonian reports.
The startup Mosa grows meat in laboratory settings after harvesting a “peppercorn size” amount of cells from regular livestock cows who are then returned, almost unscathed, to their fields. The cells are cultured and grown into muscle and fat tissues. “Fibres from one sample grow to 800 million strands of tissue,” says Mosa, which is led by lab meat pioneer Dr. Mark Post, who developed the first ever lab meat hamburger in 2013.
Meanwhile, Memphis Meats, which Gates namechecked in the Technology Review interview, wants to avoid animals altogether whenever possible—including by harvesting cells from procedures like animal biopsies, where cells would be discarded. Memphis Meats makes ground beef, as well as lab-grown chicken and duck. So far, neither Memphis Meats nor Mosa is on any menus, with the economically depressed restaurant scene of 2020 putting a serious damper on development. Mosa believes it will have a menu-ready product by 2022.
But in Singapore, the U.S.-based Eat Just’s lab-grown chicken nuggets will debut on menus soon. In December 2020, Bloomberg taste-tested the lab chicken and complimented the texture and taste. Post’s original lab-grown burger passed taste tests in 2013, too. It seems the hurdle between lab meat and the market is still its astronomical cost, which makers hope to continue to drive down as technology and scalability advances.
In the Technology Review interview, Gates specifically cited Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat as examples of scalable technologies that could reach consumers more quickly. As for the “cellular” kind of lab grown meat? “I don’t know that that will ever be economical,” Gates admitted.
Beyond Meat combines peas, beans, brown rice, and natural fats like coconut oil to make patties that sizzle and texturally resemble beef. Impossible Foods uses soy and potatoes. Both companies focus on making specifically a burger patty, an iconic piece of meat that vegan “meat” advocates believe is a key place to win over consumers.
Why is this issue so pressing? If 10 percent of U.S. emissions isn’t enough of a splash of cold water, Mosa explains, demand for meat is predicted to increase 70 percent by 2050 as more countries in the developing world gain wealth to further diversify their diets.
Eating meat is a major global marker of wealth, and experts suggest offering alternatives is more effective than warning of the emissions dangers of beef cattle, for example. Pragmatism will serve humankind well as we dramatically curb emissions.
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This fake meat has so many additives, it doesn’t seem like a healthy idea. There’s nothing like the real thing baby!
Good rule of thumb. If it has more than 3,4 ingredients put it down and buy something else. If it reads like the panel on that garbage with words that take a chemist to pronounce and understand run away fast and don’t look back. All part of the whacko lefts plan to destroy 95% of the population.
I would worry that this is just another gene-altering, drug delivery system.
Fake meat brand Impossible™ Foods uses an ingredient called soy leghemoglobin, which the FDA considers soy hemoglobin a color additive.9 This is meant to mimic the juicy, savory, meaty taste of a burger which is produced from a iron-rich molecule known as heme found only in animal proteins such as beef.
To make this additive, soy leghemoglobin gene is extracted from the root of the soybean and inserted into a strain of yeast. The genetically modified soy leghemoglobin (which comes from genetically modified soybeans), is then added to the Impossible™ meat.
https://www.amymyersmd.com/article/fake-meat-is-a-problem/
Just in case 2 vaxxes and umpteen “boosters” don’t do the job.
Are we really dumb enough to let a guy who never hid the fact that he wants us dead take over the production of our food? What happens when Gates fabricates a shortage and there is no Franken meat? God gave you animals and soil to grow food, we don’t need these criminals in our lives.
I’m really sick of this guy and his ilk.
What an utter and complete bullshit article this is. Why is it even posted here? My intellect is insulted enough with all the BS in society these days, I don’t need some idiot who spews Climate Change nonsense telling me about raising animals or how meat is too expensive.
There is a huge amount of land that literally CANNOT be farmed but it makes for perfect pasture to raise cattle. This fool spews bullshit and he didn’t even need to eat a bull in order to fill himself up with the stuff.
Was wondering the same thing.
He could give a fuck less about carbon and the environment, so why this push?
Try money & power.
He’s an autistic psychopath.
Autistic.
Until all the ants are in his ant farm doing exactly what he tells them to do, he cannot rest.
What a true statement!, Thanks for sharing with us who truly care about God’s beautiful world. Fooey on the tyrannists.
This all stems from the “Global Warming” fraud. And it is a fraud.
Roger, FRAUD should in all caps. Shout FRAUD till some more people wake up!
Global warming cult..fulfills every requirement/ definition of a cult.
I have my little herd of emotional support cows, that keep me stable by providing a new generation of butcher steers every year.
We’re looking for a couple of bottle calve right now. We only have about 4 acres pasture but it should be enough with some hay added in.
You are truly blessed!
See that sounds great. I can hardly wait.
His next recommendation will be for everyone to subsist on Soylent Green, the ultimate “green” solution.
Perhaps you might issue nice cookbook of recipes to fix left wing nuts for the holidays.
Food for the wild animals is the only thing I can think of for that particular species. Wild hogs will eat just about anything.
Soylent Green is the answer! We have plenty of raw material!
Given they want everybody to stop eating beef, there must be unknown health benefits of eating it. You have to start thinking around the corner/always assume the opposite of what they are saying is true.
What a despicable peace of shit.
He has a point. Yes he does. It’s a sharp point on the top of his head covering his evil pea brain. The man who should really be Chinese for all the tech he has stolen from others. What a self absorbed piece of rotting human flesh. Fake meat…NO NAY NEVER NO WAY!!! You eat it you useless tyrant!!
Surprising it took his wife so long to figure it out.
$100 BILLION has a way of making people overlook quite a lot.
I tell ya what. Put Bill Gates in a closed garage overnight with a running car and I’ll sit in a closed garage overnight with a beef cow and in the morning, if Gates is still alive, I’ll eat his fake meat.
It’ll be a Tesla.
Is this serious?? I never thought I’d see an article like this on TBP.
In terms of diet, this fake meat is the ultimate in processed food–there is nothing remotely natural about it. Also, the study quoted in the linked Smithsonian article has at least two serious holes in it.
First, the study goes along with the common talking point about the vast acreage used to pasture beef. In reality, the vast majority of that land is marginal for agriculture, and could not be used for farming anyway. Grazing ruminants (grass-eating animals) is the best way to turn that land into human calories.
Second, the calculations about the infrastructure needed to raise cows include the resources that must be put into the feedlot, which is the common commercial way to fatten cattle for market. If we went to all grass-fed cattle, this burden would disappear. Two other benefits of going grass-fed are 1) a better and more humane life for the cattle, and 2) healthier grass-fed beef in our diets. (Grass-fed animals were the only ruminants in the human diet for most of its history.)
I see the climate argument as really just an attempt to make people feel guilty about eating beef. In any case, there is a cheap and simple additive made from algae (I think) that has been shown to cut livestock methane emissions by 80%.
makes these and some other good points.
I thought this as well. I was waiting for Admin or some other regular poster to jump into the article and point out why everything about Beyond Meat is wrong. Did Admin get hacked, or have the powers that be finally just taken his site away from him?
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The article is from elsewhere, a quick search will tell you where and why
The article was submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer, not Admin.
I’m pretty sure HF knows this article is bullshit.
People often post articles while not agreeing with the content. They are posted so you can see what the other side, the loonies dipshits and assholes … how they think and what they want.
With a pretty clever title, I might add.
Yes. The title was the giveaway. Now if this proponent of fake meat could only meet the same fate as the speaker of the original “let them eat cake”…
I thought so too.
Soylent Gates.
I prefer Silent gates
So the complaint is that the government won’t let you lie about what the product is?
Anyway, the real “solution” to global warming (ahem, climate crisis after recent rebrand) is for Gates to kill everyone on the planet except himself and his buddies. Let’s just cut to the chase, shall we.
“Where’s the beef?” was predictive programming.
It’s poison, that’s why he wants us to eat it. DIE ALREADY PLEEBES.
Similar to the taste, you just have to get accustomed to the poison.
Fuck Bill Gates.
Vegans are vitamin B12 deficient unless they supplement with B12. B12 deficiency is correlated with mental illness, to include anxiety, depression and psychosis. Toxoplasmosis from cats is also implicated in schizophrenia. So, let’s have policy directed by crazy vegan cat ladies. It’s that fucking 19th amendment – biting us in the ass one more time.
I’ve got sum’ meat that Gates can suck down !!!!!!!!!!!!!
So…You think that the loss of smell/taste was an accident of the FULLY ENGINEERED Scamdemic or just serendipitous?
As many know by now, loss of smell and taste goes with depletion on the body’s zinc; one of the first findings from autopsies way back in the spring of 2020. The evil know that a high percentage of the aged are already suffering from inadequate zinc even before the Government Virus hits them. One reason ivermectin works so well is that is is complementary to zinc; i.e., each helps the other do a more effective job.
This is a quite interesting 15 minute video about Nestle.
I thought I’d do a quick search to see what Nestle’s vaxx policy was, but found this instead. Fits right in this fake food discussion.
N-E-S-T-L-E-S, NESTLES makes the very best…(fill in the blank)
Nestle to trial plant-based eggs and shrimp
Its latest offerings are the “vEGGie” and “Vrimp”.
The egg substitute is made from soy protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
The product “can be scrambled like real eggs, used in a frittata and pancakes or even as an ingredient when baking cakes or cookies,” the company said in a statement.
The “Vrimp” is made from mixing seaweed, peas and konjac root, and “has the authentic texture and flavor of succulent shrimps,” according to Nestle.
https://www.newindianexpress.com/business/2021/oct/07/nestle-to-trial-plant-based-eggs-and-shrimp-2368823.html
Nestle is the reason US children are obese.
Raised on hfcs and dehydrated milk with a few chemical additives. Yum.
They also luvs them some Senomyx.
Horseshit. What a maroon you are. Parents are the reason kids are fat. That is the only fucking reason. Why are people so fucking stupid?
If you cannot pinch the tail and suck the head, they are not shrimp and I will have no part of them.
looks like he’s been eating his own supply.
Maybe we can turn a profit in the beef business if we have to go on the black market.
Had prime rib two nights ago, last night, tonight, and damn, gonna have it tomorrow. Mmmmmm. Yum. Fuck gates and the multi engine CO2 spewing climate change machine he rode in on. Assholes.
Llpoh
Why are we paying any attention to what this drop out geek has to say. A drop out Geek who fleeced the world with the most inoperative operating system ever devised. The reason: Because he is obscenely rich. That is the only reason. With Money you can buy your way to become or do anything. He is guilty of crimes against humanity and should be arrested forthwith.