plant based meat Concepts

After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People

by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso · 7 Jul 2025 · 264pp · 96,174 words

people are born in the future, then we may miss out on the team who would have made the next leap in geothermal power or plant-based meat or anxiety treatment or pop music or anything else of value. The fewer people who remain to be born will each be worse off than

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to understand this consequence of depopulation, we need to step back from our experiences as consumers of things and ask why innovation happens—electric vehicles, plant-based meats, a cochlear implant. Once invented, these get mass-produced because enough someones out there want them. But these technologies cost a lot to develop. That

The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future

by Tom Chivers · 12 Jun 2019 · 289pp · 92,714 words

the nerds who think Skynet is going to take over the world (he is endearingly protective of his nerds). We ate the Impossible Burger, a plant-based meat burger, which was produced partly with funding from OpenPhil,12 the idea being to reduce the requirement for beef and thus improve animal welfare and

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

by Nick Bostrom · 26 Mar 2024 · 547pp · 173,909 words

real world, the animal welfare promoters would presumably fan out to attack the problem from different directions—some to pursue public advocacy, others to research plant-based meat substitutes, others to fundraise, others to lobby legislators. However, we could imagine a situation in which they would all need to engage in the same

Who’s Raising the Kids?: Big Tech, Big Business, and the Lives of Children

by Susan Linn · 12 Sep 2022 · 415pp · 102,982 words

values that promote individual consumption. That brings me to a different kind of consumption. I was interested to discover that Impossible Foods, a purveyor of plant-based meat substitutes, is carving out a presence in schools. It began with a pilot program in several states where Impossible Burgers, each sporting a little flag

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change and its root causes. We are thrilled to be partnering with K-12 school districts across the country to lower barriers to access our plant-based meat for this change-making generation.52 I definitely believe that schools should teach about the root causes of global warming, and I understand that massive

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words

in 2008, did better. The partnership homed in on businesses that did have a moat, and produced a few dramatic hits: as of 2021, the plant-based meat company Beyond Meat had generated 107x, the battery maker QuantumScape had made 65x, and the “smart solar” company Enphase had produced 25x. This was enough

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell · 19 Jul 2021 · 460pp · 130,820 words

engine.” In this boom, the imitation-meat company Beyond Meat wasn’t a veggie burger maker but a “platform” like Facebook or YouTube—that made plant-based meat. The fast casual grilled cheese chain The Melt thought gizmos like an online ordering system entitled it to tech-like valuations, rather than grilled cheese

Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

by Vivek Ramaswamy · 16 Aug 2021 · 344pp · 104,522 words

from plant-based sources like peas, beans, potatoes and brown rice” to produce its meat alternatives. Beyond Meat believes that “by shifting from animal to plant-based meat, [they] can positively impact four growing global issues: human health, climate change, constraints on natural resources, and animal welfare.”17 According to a comparative assessment

The Science and Technology of Growing Young: An Insider's Guide to the Breakthroughs That Will Dramatically Extend Our Lifespan . . . And What You Can Do Right Now

by Sergey Young · 23 Aug 2021 · 326pp · 88,968 words

eat animal products, I recommend grass-fed, free-range, organic products of the best quality. Recent advancements in the quality, availability, and cost of new plant-based “meat” products from companies like Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are also really exciting. DRINK MORE WATER: To live longer, “fall in love” with water. Not

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac · 25 Feb 2020 · 197pp · 49,296 words

people planning to become vegan or vegetarian is relatively low, but fully 50 percent of the U.S. population would like to eat less meat. Plant-based meat replacements are already becoming cheaper, more efficient, and more delicious. By 2040, these products are expected to make up 60 percent of the market, up

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross · 19 Nov 2020 · 197pp · 53,831 words

the US and labour shortages affecting production, plant-based factories, where production is more automated, saw less disruption in their supply chains. US sales of plant-based meat substitutes jumped by 265 per cent over an eight-week period, according to consumer data group Nielsen, compared with rises of just 39 per cent

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to be for traditional food companies. ‘The meat industry certainly knows plant based has arrived. [If you had told me that] the largest advertiser of plant-based meat is Burger King … a year ago I’d have said you were crazy. When you see meat companies, fast food companies, family dining chains [offering