I'm Not a Capitalist, but I Can't Tell the Difference

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It is actually meat cells that are biidentical ther their being grown in labs and eventually grown in factories. They look like and taste just like chicken taste or beef taste. And e if you did a blind taste test, you couldn't tell the difference. Ind some day that's going to be commercially sold, and that's not far in the future. It'll start out more expensive, but overtime, the the experience curve and the manufacturing process will probably make it less expensive then a regular animal food. Withat when it becomes less expensive and you can't tell the difference, then it's going to completely transform animal agriculture across the world.

John Mackey says the treatment for the cancer of crony capitalism is conscious capitalism, grounded “in an ethical system based on value creation for all stakeholders,” which includes not just owners, but employees, customers, the community, the environment, and even competitors, activists, critics, unions, and the media. Mackey cites Google and Southwest Airlines as role models, and pharmaceutical companies and financial corporations as anti-role models. In a surprise pivot, Mackey lays the blame for the myth of the profit motive as the only measure of value at the feet of capitalists themselves. Mackey’s goal is to write a new narrative for capitalism that asks us to care about customers and human beings instead of data points on a spreadsheet.