Bill Gates Wants You to Avoid Eating Beef and Switch to Synthetic Meat to Fight Climate Change
News 18Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates has a solution to the impeding climate change disaster: Switch to synthetic meat. The billionaire American business magnate, software developer, and philanthropist has a new book out, called “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” One of his top solutions involved synthetic meat. Science Focus simply explains synthetic meat, also called lab-grown meat, cultured meat, in vitro meat, synthetic meat, and is made by growing muscle cells in a nutrient serum and encouraging them into muscle-like fibres. Growing the cells that form cultured meat is not hugely different from other ‘cell culture’ methods that biologists have used to study cells since the early 1900s. But so-called clean or cultured meat, which is grown from animal muscle cells in a lab, is still at a nascent stage given high production costs.