Invested in Impossible Foods to scale plant-based meat as a climate and food security solution
Gates invested in Impossible Foods in 2013 — one of the earliest outside investors — backing the company's mission to make plant-based meat that replicates the taste and texture of conventional meat using a fraction of the land, water, and greenhouse gas emissions. Impossible Foods' signature product uses soy-derived heme to replicate the bloody, savory taste of beef. Gates has repeatedly cited plant-based and cultivated meat as essential components of any serious climate strategy, arguing that livestock agriculture — responsible for 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions — cannot be decarbonized without transforming protein production itself.
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