Bill Gates Wants Us to Eat 100% Synthetic Beef. He Has a Point.

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Bill Gates recently suggested that “all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef”.

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“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].

Different agricultural and food lobbies around the world have pushed for regulation so that, for example,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.in the U.S.

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 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.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,”

 

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It’s all about the money.

Who are you to tell me what to eat? Typical American arrogance, cockiness and ignorance.

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