The technocrat expressed his desire for everyone to eat fake meat as a “climate-friendly” alternative to the real thing. During an interview with the MIT Technology Review, Gates remarked that people’s behaviors should be changed to make them like lab-grown meat. He stressed that regulations could strong-arm people into eating the frankenfood items.
“I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef,” Gates told the Review. “You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time.”
The Microsoft co-founder also pointed to various proposals that ban the deceptive practice of labeling lab-grown meat as the real thing. He said: “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.”
Interestingly, the Daily Expose stated that Gates is an investor in both Memphis Meats and Impossible Foods. In the case of the latter, he joined Google and Amazon bigwig Jeff Bezos in bankrolling the venture. Aside from fake meat, Gates also backed the startup Biomilq which seeks to develop lab-cultured breast milk.
Despite his big money bankrolling Impossible Foods, the free market
has spoken and declared that the real thing is better than the
artificially-made version. This translated to lower profits, leading
Impossible Foods to implement cost-cutting measures....<<<Read More>>>..