Month: February 2021

Technology Networks interviews Jim Mellon

Interest in cultured meat is rapidly growing, driven by the need to provide a more sustainable source of meat to the world’s population, while addressing environmental and animal welfare concerns associated with intensive agricultural practices. In 2013, the first lab-grown burger was cooked and eaten, developed by Professor Mark Post, at a cost of £215,000. …

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Financial Times: Vegan milk maker Oatly targets $10bn IPO

Oatly, the Blackstone-backed Swedish vegan milk maker, is eyeing a valuation as high as $10bn in a US listing that would tap into both the IPO boom and consumers’ growing thirst for plant-based alternatives to animal products. The Malmo-based group said on Tuesday that it had submitted a confidential filing for an initial public offering …

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Investors’ Chronicle: Interview with Agronomics’ Anthony Chow

Agronomics has invested £27m in companies that grow meat, cheese, leather and other animal products The investment firm is betting that climate change and a rising population mean we will soon depend on these businesses to turn science fiction into reality In the 1952 science fiction novel The Space Merchants, a sinister corporation feeds the masses …

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Max Roser & Hannah Ritchie: Environmental impacts of food production

Food, energy and water: this is what the United Nations refers to as the ‘nexus’ of sustainable development. As the world’s population has expanded and gotten richer, the demand for all three has seen a rapid increase. Not only has demand for all three increased, but they are also strongly interlinked: food production requires water and energy; traditional energy production demands water resources; …

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Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef

In his new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates lays out what it will really take to eliminate the greenhouse-gas emissions driving climate change. The Microsoft cofounder, who is now cochair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and chair of the investment fund Breakthrough Energy Ventures, sticks to his past argument that we’ll need numerous …

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NewScientist: Is our growing appetite for fish harming the planet?

THE fish counter at my local supermarket has a chalkboard displaying how many different species are on sale on any given day. It is usually in the 20s, though sometimes creeps above 30. As well as staples such as cod, salmon and mackerel, it often has trout, sea bass, monkfish, langoustines, tuna, scallops, squid, catfish …

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The Times: We need to care more about what we eat

Have you heard about the nitrate time bomb? It’s a kind of slow-motion hangover from our agricultural past. The story starts in the middle of the 20th century when farmers doused their fields with fertilisers containing nitrate chemicals. Crop yields went through the roof but many of the chemicals sank into the bedrock beneath the …

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The Times: Israeli firm unveils 3D-printed steak

An Israeli company has unveiled what it claims to be the first 3D-printed, non-slaughtered rib-eye steak, and says it is now moving on to other cuts. The steak, pictured, was grown from cow cells that were then cultivated on a plant-based web to resemble real meat, including a normal steak’s fat and muscle texture. The company, Aleph …

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Robert Emery Podcast: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH JIM MELLON: THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS THING I’VE PURCHASED IS A PLANE!

Jim talks about his route to becoming one of the world’s wealthiest individuals, why he believes he will live to over 100, and how humanity will shortly be feeding itself from lab-grown meat. He of course also answers a quick-fire round of questions culminating in the big question; “what is the most outrageous thing you’ve …

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Vegconomist interviews Jim Mellon: “Governments should love this industry”

“An investor’s guide to the new agricultural revolution”, is the subtitle and topic of the book “Moo’s Law“. Author Jim Mellon is an investor and entrepreneur from the UK who, in this interview, told us about the book and how he envisions the future of our global food system. The title of your book is a …

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Jim Mellon for Jewish Business News: “Israel & The Agrarian Revolution”

Israel is at the forefront of the ‘New Agrarian Revolution’. The same reasons why Israel’s life sciences and biotech sectors lead the world have also turbo-charged the nascent cellular agriculture sector. More and more people are waking up to the problems of modern intensive farming, from animal cruelty and environmental pollution, to further animal-to-human viral …

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Jim Mellon for CapX: “We need to talk about our food supply”

We are on the brink of a New Agrarian Revolution that will transform the global food system. My new book, Moo’s Law: An Investor’s Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution, sets out why modern intensive farming needs to be overhauled, and how science is fortunately catching up to the problem. The first major problem is pandemic …

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Longevity Tech interviews Jim Mellon: “We are what we eat”

Getting time with a busy person like Jim Mellon is tricky and when your time arrives you need to be ready – armed with questions after a speed read of his new book, Moo’s Law: An Investor’s Guide to the New Agrarian Revolution, I dialled-up the Zoom call and, to my discomfort, Mellon was already on the call. …

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TransitionEarth: Moo’s Law author Jim Mellon on why 2020 will be a watershed year for cultured meat

Over the next twelve months you can expect to hear a lot of talk about lab processed, or cultured meat with 2021  set to be a watershed year for the technology for a number of reasons. The first cultured meat product, in this instance fake chicken, went on sale in a restaurant in Singapore at …

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Isle of Man Today: “Talking point: Future of lab-grown meat”

Now here’s a question for all you farmers. Would you prefer to be trudging round muddy fields in all weathers to tend your livestock or sitting, cosy and warm indoors, monitoring a bioreactor? That’s not such a ridiculous question as it sounds because inside the bioreactor stem cells from a cow are being fed a …

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