Two facts about biodiversity are not up for debate. The first is widely known, the second less so. Fact number one: biodiversity—the level of diversity in the natural world, at the ecosystem, species, and genetic levels—is being destroyed at an alarming rate. Fact number two: biodiversity loss has massive implications for business.
Feed prices “go up and down, and you tend to take the rough with the smooth,” said Mark Gorton, managing director at the British chicken and turkey producer Traditional Norfolk Poultry. “But when it rallies as much as it has, it starts to impact massively on the business.” The last time grains were this expensive was …
Bloomberg: The World Will Pay More for Meat as Food Inflation Deepens Read More »
Jim was interviewed about Moo’s Law by Lord Vaizey, the former UK Tech & Culture Minister.
Eating insects as a replacement for meat should be no big deal for anyone. After all, research suggests the average individual already eats 140,000 insect pieces each year,
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. …
It’s the small things you don’t usually notice about a piece of meat that suddenly hit you when you’re about to eat a steak that hasn’t come from an animal for the first time. The sizzle when it’s placed on a hot cast-iron pan, the unmistakable smell, first of the bubbling juices and then of …
The Times: How do you like your steak: grass-fed or lab-grown? Read More »
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 …
Financial Times: Vegan milk maker Oatly targets $10bn IPO Read More »
Consider a steak. When it hits the hot oil in the pan, your mouth can’t help but water at the aroma. That familiar crackle of fat beginning to fry and render is the sound of the maillard reaction: that wondrous molecular dance of the steak’s amino acids and sugars as they caramelize during the searing …
New Republic: The Sadism of Eating Real Meat Over Lab Meat Read More »
In today’s episode I look into artificial lab grown meat and plant based meats as it continues to grow and develop into the 2020s. I explore briefly into the benefits and which companies are on top and what I am investing into. What are your thoughts on lab grown meat or plant based meats?
I spend nearly as much time talking about how I want to stop eating meat as I do eating it. I care about animals and the environment and, even more, virtue signaling about how much I care about animals and the environment. I just don’t want to make any effort or sacrifice any pleasure.
For my ‘The Science and Technology of Growing Young’ book, which will bepublished in August 2021, I had the pleasure to interview Jim Mellon – anamazing entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, writer, and longevity leader
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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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; …
Max Roser & Hannah Ritchie: Environmental impacts of food production Read More »
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 …
Bill Gates: Rich nations should shift entirely to synthetic beef Read More »
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 …
NewScientist: Is our growing appetite for fish harming the planet? Read More »
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 …
The Times: We need to care more about what we eat Read More »
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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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 …
“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 …
Vegconomist interviews Jim Mellon: “Governments should love this industry” Read More »
The title of Jim Mellon’s new book on the cultured meat business – “Moo’s Law” – really says it all: He wrote his “investor’s guide to the new agrarian revolution” because he believes that the trajectory of pricing in this industry will resemble what has happened to semiconductors in the past decades. The chairman of …
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 …
Jim Mellon for Jewish Business News: “Israel & The Agrarian Revolution” Read More »
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 …
Jim Mellon for CapX: “We need to talk about our food supply” Read More »
Probably like many of you, I think of Costco as an enlightened company exemplifying capitalism that works. One ranking listed it as the No. 1 company to work at in terms of pay and benefits — a prime example of a business that is both profitable and humane.
Billionaire entrepreneur and island resident Jim Mellon believes the Isle of Man could lead the way in an ’amazing new industry’ which has implications for the future of agriculture and the food industry. The investor and author told Business News: ’I think it would be great for the economy in the Isle of Man.
Watch Jim Mellon’s interview with GSV Startup Bootcamp. (Section on Moo’s Law begins 19:10.)
David Stevenson features Jim Mellon and Moo’s Law in his investigation of the alternative protein sector.
Discussion of Moo’s Law book begins at 23:18
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. …
Longevity Tech interviews Jim Mellon: “We are what we eat” Read More »
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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