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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

FAKE MEAT’S FREE FALL

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Fake meat is dead! The plant based meat sector screeches to a halt as the Bill Gates-backed idea can no longer tread water amid the weight of its own untruths, false advertising and public shunning.

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0:00.0

With this idea of, you know, agenda 2030 and all of these checked boxes that are trying to be checked off in one way or the other,

0:08.0

I saw this headline and it maybe really start to dig into this story here and let's talk about food now.

0:12.8

We've talked about food for quite a long time on this show and how to eat healthy food.

0:17.7

And then the switchover, Tyson Foods, one of the biggest meat producers, is investing

0:21.4

in insect protein. This is one of the largest food

0:24.7

companies in the world is recognized as a leader in protein and if you go into this

0:29.4

article it says Tyson is not only taking a minority stake in the company but is working

0:34.5

alongside it to build a factory this is an insect protein company that facility

0:38.4

will use animal waste to feed back soldier flies which will then be turned into food for pets, poultry, and fish.

0:45.2

Tyson did not disclose the financial specifics of the deal.

0:48.9

So technically they're not feeding this to people, but they're feeding it to the poultry that the people eat and your pets and fish that people eat.

0:58.0

So as you start looking into this and it's like okay this is really interesting why are they they cozying up to this

1:04.0

to this insect protein company well I mean you could say well it's sustainable

1:08.1

and this is another way just to eliminate waste okay but then you see headlines like

1:12.2

this Tyson is closing four plants as

1:14.2

chicken sales slump and you go into that article is actually six plants. This is four additional

1:18.8

plants in these in rural towns and then headline here out of Reuters, U.S. reduces beef exports as cattle herd shrinks,

1:26.0

squeezing Tyson foods. So you can see there's a play here on meat. And we know that we're supposed to know that eating meat is bad for the environment

1:34.6

so there's a lot of angling going on that appears to be really hurting these companies.

1:41.2

And so I think back in 2017 you saw Bill Gates really enter the

1:45.4

picture for the first time hard and make this proclamation with his funds.

1:49.8

Bill Gates headlines an all-star list of investors pumping 75 million into meatless burgers.

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