{"id":138376,"date":"2021-02-16T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T21:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=138376"},"modified":"2021-02-16T17:28:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:28:06","slug":"bill-gates-rich-countries-should-be-eating-100-synthetic-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-rich-countries-should-be-eating-100-synthetic-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates: Rich Countries Should Be Eating 100% Synthetic Beef"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-gates-rich-countries-should-be-eating-100-synthetic-beef%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=138376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BillGates.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Billionaire and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has called upon the rich nations of the world to switch over to synthetic beef to better combat climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2021\/02\/14\/1018296\/bill-gates-climate-change-beef-trees-microsoft\/\">MIT Technology Review<\/a> about his new book \u201cHow to Avoid Climate Disaster,\u201d Gates discussed his views on improving the \u201cfood sector,\u201d and lamented that the political scene may keep first-world nations from going fully synthetic in the beef department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/12\/18\/1013241\/first-lab-cultured-cultivated-meat-blended-plants\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/12\/18\/1013241\/first-lab-cultured-cultivated-meat-blended-plants\/\">think plant-based and lab-grown meats&nbsp;<\/a>could be the full solution to the protein problem globally, even in poor nations? Or do you think it\u2019s going to be some fraction because of the things you\u2019re talking about, the cultural love of a hamburger and the way livestock is so central to economies around the world?\u201d asked the interviewer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Africa and other poor countries, we\u2019ll have to use animal genetics to dramatically raise the amount of beef per emissions for them. Weirdly, the US livestock, because they\u2019re so productive, the emissions per pound of beef are dramatically less than emissions per pound in Africa,\u201d said Gates. \u201cAnd as part of the [Bill and Melinda Gates] Foundation\u2019s work, we\u2019re taking the benefit of the African livestock, which means they can survive in heat, and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/bill-gates-working-geneticists-create-perfect-cow\">crossing in the monstrous productivity<\/a> both on the meat side and the milk side of the elite US beef lines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo no, I don\u2019t think the poorest 80 countries will be eating synthetic meat,\u201d he added. \u201cI do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they\u2019re 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. So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it\u2019s possible. But it\u2019s one of those ones where, wow, you have to track it every year and see, and the politics [are challenging]. There are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eater.com\/2019\/10\/30\/20939961\/real-meat-act-beef-labeling-proposed-bill-congress-impossible-burger-beyond-meat\">all these bills<\/a> that say it\u2019s got to be called, basically, lab garbage to be sold. They don\u2019t want us to use the beef label.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the interview, Bill Gates said that synthetic proteins will be required for beef because cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of livestock, it\u2019s very difficult. There are all the things where they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2018\/11\/23\/1826\/how-seaweed-could-shrink-livestocks-global-carbon-hoofprint\/\">feed them different food<\/a>, like there\u2019s this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-climate-change-dsm\/chemical-maker-dsm-sees-strong-demand-for-methane-reducing-cow-feed-additive-idUSKBN1WF1E8\">one compound<\/a> that gives you a 20% reduction [in methane emissions]. But sadly, those bacteria [in their digestive system that produce methane] are a necessary part of breaking down the grass. And so I don\u2019t know if there\u2019ll be some natural approach there. I\u2019m afraid the synthetic [protein alternatives like plant-based burgers] will be required for at least the beef thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the people like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/12\/01\/1012789\/cultured-cultivated-meat-just-singapore-approved-food-climate\/\">Memphis Meats<\/a>&nbsp;who&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2019\/02\/27\/136968\/the-race-to-grow-a-more-planet-friendly-burger\/\">do it at a cellular level<\/a>\u2014I don\u2019t know that that will ever be economical. But&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/10\/20\/1010717\/impossible-burgers-unveil-milk-double-research-team\/\">Impossible<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondmeat.com\/\">Beyond<\/a> have a road map, a quality road map and a cost road map, that makes them totally competitive,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Gates, a multi-billionaire who has largely remained shielded, financially, from the economic fallout of the COVID lockdowns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-gates-worth-nearly-120-billion-advocates-for-keeping-some-businesses-closed-during-pandemic\">previously endorsed<\/a> governments shutting down small businesses to combat the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bill-gates-worth-nearly-120-billion-advocates-for-keeping-some-businesses-closed-during-pandemic\">Bill Gates, Worth Nearly $120 Billion, Advocates For Keeping Some Businesses Closed During&nbsp;Pandemic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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