'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
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Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#2How will this work itself out? A few large companies owning the supply-side of lab meat? Government legislation to prevent people from raising animals for food? Lab-meat for city folk, and regular meat for rural folk?
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#3How will this work itself out? A few large companies owning the supply-side of lab meat? Government legislation to prevent people from raising animals for food? Lab-meat for city folk, and regular meat for rural folk?
By making the fakemeat cheaper than real meat and making people embrace the victim culture.
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#4How will this work itself out? A few large companies owning the supply-side of lab meat? Government legislation to prevent people from raising animals for food? Lab-meat for city folk, and regular meat for rural folk?
It's an interesting question. At Infinite Food[0] we believe the key thing we can certainly bet on is change, so we're building supply chains that support both conventional and emerging proteins, and total end customer transparency. We then expect to develop a sideline in assisting emerging protein providers analyzing the market response to new products as they emerge, in different sub-market demographics.
Wild, conventionally farmed, locally raised, imported, free range, organic, insect, lab-grown, algae or plant-based proteins all have strong economic, ethical, environmental, technical or health arguments... and limitations!
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#5On cultured meat, the biggest win will be environmental because CAFOs are flatulent-powered atmosphere procession stations, e.g., "climate change" is a nice manta but it's more honest to say "we're currently terraforming ourselves onto an inhospitable planet."
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#6How will this work itself out? A few large companies owning the supply-side of lab meat? Government legislation to prevent people from raising animals for food? Lab-meat for city folk, and regular meat for rural folk?
It's an interesting question. At Infinite Food[0] we believe the key thing we can certainly bet on is change, so we're building supply chains that support both conventional and emerging proteins, and total end customer transparency. We then expect to develop a sideline in assisting emerging protein providers analyzing the market response to new products as they emerge, in different sub-market demographics. Wild, conv…
It would be nice if you could make this reply more generic.
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#7How will this work itself out? A few large companies owning the supply-side of lab meat? Government legislation to prevent people from raising animals for food? Lab-meat for city folk, and regular meat for rural folk?
By making the fakemeat cheaper than real meat and making people embrace the victim culture.
What do you mean by victim culture in this context?
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#8"I believe that in 30 years or so we will no longer need to kill any animals and that all meat will either be clean or plant-based, taste the same and also be much healthier for everyone."
Okja, anyone? :)
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an interesting question. At Infinite Food[0] we believe the key thing we can certainly bet on is change, so we're building supply chains that support both conventional and emerging proteins, and total end customer transparency. We then expect to develop a sideline in assisting emerging protein providers analyzing the market response to new products as they emerge, in different sub-market demographics. Wild, conv…
It would be nice if you could make this reply more generic.
Agreed. If you come up with any ideas let me know :) Seriously though, in a 'software person does hardware' scenario, is aiming for a generic and modular solution not the de-facto approach?
Re: 'No longer kill animals': Bill Gates, Richard Branson back 'clean meat' startup
#10How will this work itself out? A few large companies owning the supply-side of lab meat? Government legislation to prevent people from raising animals for food? Lab-meat for city folk, and regular meat for rural folk?
Or how will it work for our pets and the pet food industry?
Cats are obligate carnivores and dogs are scavenging carnivores. They need real meat to survive and thrive. People with pet snakes also need to feed their snakes meat.
Are we going to ban pet ownership?