Some of these articles are a couple of years old but I think its important because it reveals his dedication to the lab grown meat industry and reveals some of the other players and investors.

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Memphis Meats' Lab-Grown Meat Raises $17M With Help From Bill Gates And Richard Branson

In another recent leap for lab grown meat, clean meat company Memphis Meats announced that it completed a $17 million Series A fundraising round that was led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a leading venture capital firm that has also invested in SpaceX, Twitter and Tesla. The round included a number of notable investors including Richard Branson, Bill Gates and Suzy and Jack Welch. The round was also supported by food industry leaders including farm-to-table founding father Kimbal Musk and agriculture company Cargill Inc., the largest privately held corporation in the United States whose last declared revenues ($136.7 billion) would rank it number 15 on the Fortune 500.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinatroitino/2017/08/24/memphis-meats-lab-grown-meat-raises-17m-with-help-from-bill-gates-and-richard-branson/

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This next article might explain why Tyson Chicken is so willing so shut down some of its production.

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Bill Gates and Richard Branson are betting lab-grown meat might be the food of the future

Investors like Tyson and Cargill could put 'clean meat' on grocery shelves within three years.

Traditional meat production is ecologically devastating, and a growing world population could make farm-raised animal meat unfeasible by 2050.

Billionaires, including Bill Gates, say there is no way to produce enough meat traditionally to feed the world population of the future.

For lab-grown meat start-ups, going after $50-per-pound foie gras makes as much sense as grocery-store staples like burgers and chicken nuggets.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/23/bill-gates-and-richard-branson-bet-on-lab-grown-meat-startup.html

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How Impossible Burger's 'simple' vision won hundreds of millions in funding — and backing from Bill Gates

When Pat Brown was working in his research lab in 2009, he had "zero" intention of starting a business — much less one that would win United Nations backing and investment from the likes of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

No, his goal then was "simple."

"I basically decided I was going to look for the most important problem that I could have the opportunity of solving," he told CNBC

But when the former pediatrician-turned-Stanford professor discovered what that problem was — namely the "catastrophic use of animals in our food system" — he realized he had to go "all in."

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/bill-gates-backed-impossible-burger-ceo-patrick-brown-on-fighting-meat.html

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Bill Gates & Food Corporations Worked To End Livestock Production – Pushed Lab-Grown Meat

May 1, 2020

Do you wonder why the media wants you panicked about the food supply and why farms are slaughtering and aborting animals? Bill Gates and food giant Tyson have both heavily backed lab-grown meat research.

The death and destruction and economic terrorism wages on humanity have reached truly horrifying levels. These elitists want total global domination.

Lab-grown meat producers are hoping that the COVID-19 outbreak could boost public acceptance. As Bill Gates was working to establish a worldwide digital ID system prior to the pandemic, he was also working to end meat production and funding lab-grown “meat.”

https://dcdirtylaundry.com/bill-gates-food-corporations-worked-to-end-livestock-production-pushed-lab-grown-meat/

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Lab-grown meats backed by Bill Gates, Tyson Foods face U.S. oversight

The FDA plans to hold a meeting July 12 to get input from the industry on the safety of cultured meat technology as well as considerations for how to possibly label the products so consumers know they’re getting meat from a lab — not a cow.

Lab-grown meat startups that rely on animal cells to produce beef, poultry and seafood products have caught the eye of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which has begun the process of regulating the industry.

Cultured meat, considered an environmentally sound alternative to the real thing, is made by harvesting cells from animals and growing them to make food.

Companies like Memphis Meats and Future Meat Technologies have piqued the interest of investors such as food giants Tyson Foods and Cargill, as well as billionaires Bill Gates and Richard Branson.

The FDA plans to hold a meeting July 12 to get input from the industry on the safety of the technology as well as considerations for how to possibly label the products so consumers know they’re getting meat from a lab — not a cow. There had been some debate over whether the FDA or the U.S. Department of Agriculture should regulate lab-grown meat.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/lab-grown-meats-backed-by-bill-gates-tyson-foods-face-u-s-oversight/

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Lab-Grown Meat

Beef for dinner—without killing animals or the environment

If widely adopted, lab-grown meat, also called clean meat, could eliminate much of the cruel, unethical treatment of animals raised for food. It could also reduce the considerable environmental costs of meat production; resources would be needed only to generate and sustain cultured cells, not an entire organism from birth.

The meat is made by first taking a muscle sample from an animal. Technicians collect stem cells from the tissue, multiply them dramatically and allow them to differentiate into primitive fibers that then bulk up to form muscle tissue. Mosa Meat says that one tissue sample from a cow can yield enough muscle tissue to make 80,000 quarter-pounders.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lab-grown-meat/

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Bill Gates Backed Startup Is Using CRISPR to Grow Lab Meat

New patent: "One application is to manufacture skeletal muscle for dietary consumption."

You already knew about lab-grown meats, which are grown from animal cells instead of in a whole animal. And you probably know about CRISPR, the technology that lets scientists edit DNA with relative ease.

Now, Business Insider reports, at least two startups are trying to combine lab grown meats and CRISPR to invent the next generation of lab-grown meat — and it could lead to futuristic new frontiers in sustainable eating.

BI reporters spotted a pair of patents by Memphis Meats, a lab-grown meat outfit that’s gotten backing from tech luminaries including Bill Gates and Richard Branson, that would “create real chicken and beef tissue” using CRISPR, according to the magazine.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/bill-gates-startup-crispr-lab-meat

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