Jeff Bezos Charity Donates $30 Million for Fake Meat Development

Published on June 1, 2024

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ charity is establishing a multi-million dollar research facility in North Carolina State University for manufacturing fake meat products. The Bezos Center for Sustainable Protein was launched at the NC State University on Friday. The center will act as a “biomanufacturing hub for dietary proteins that are environmentally friendly, healthy, tasty, and affordable,” according to a press release. The Bezos Earth Fund—a $10 billion commitment from Mr. Bezos to address “climate and nature within the current decade”—awarded the university $30 million for setting up the center. The funding seeks to support research on three types of “sustainable proteins”—plant-based products, cultivated meat grown from animal cells, and precision fermentation that can produce proteins and nutrients to be used in food formulations....

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