American food writer and activist Michael Pollan (photo on Flickr by PopTech).
The meat market, says Bill Gates, is ripe for reinvention. The market is growing fast to meet rising demands for animal-source foods throughout much of the developing world, particularly China and India and other countries with fast-growing economies.
Food scientists are creating healthful plant-based alternatives that taste just like eggs, chicken, and other sources of protein.
Most of Gates’ fancy slide presentation cum video gallery addresses concerns about overconsumption of meat by the relatively rich, not under-nourished communities of the poor. Thus, while mock meat is not to be mocked, it is still more expensive, and less tasty, than real meat, and, until that changes, is unlikely to be a solution for many of the world’s poor who remain starved of protein. The same will probably also be true for some time to come for ‘lab-grown’ (or ‘in…
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