Sunday, January 22, 2023

Fake Meat Products

 From Fox Business:

Microsoft co-founder turned billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said he is hopeful that fake meat products will eventually be a "very good" option for consumers even though the share of products in the "meat" market is small.

"I think eventually these products will be very good even though their share is small today," Gates said in a Reddit forum on a question relating to tackling the climate crisis, first reported CNBC. Gates said innovations like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, which are plant based food options that range from burger to chicken nugget alternatives, and the food technology company, Upside Foods, which takes animal cells to then grow meat in a laboratory environment, are crucial steps for reducing animal consumption. The climate activist pointed to more traditional approaches to avoiding meat like vegetarianism or going vegan and said, "that is great" but noted that most people will not choose to remove meat from their diet.

"I don’t think most people will do that," he said, noting that alternative meat products were necessary options to therefore lower meat consumption. (Read more.)
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