Bill Gates Wants Rich Nations to Move to 100% Synthetic Beef, Says People Must Get Used to the Odd Taste
On the grounds that real meat is real trouble for the environment, tech guru Bill Gates wants the world’s richest nations to have helpings of synthetic beef instead while leaving real meat for poor nations to eat. Gates…

On the grounds that real meat is real trouble for the environment, tech guru Bill Gates wants the world’s richest nations to have helpings of synthetic beef instead while leaving real meat for poor nations to eat.
Gates expounded upon how people should eat in an interview with MIT Technology Review.
“I do think all rich countries should move to 100 percent synthetic beef. You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time,” he said.
Gates said governmental compulsion is an option.
“Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the people or use regulation to totally shift the demand,” he said.
Gates criticized what he called politics for getting in the way.
“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,” he said.
While richer nations eat fake beef, genetically altered animals will provide meat for other places, such as Africa, he said.


