PrintDecember 11, 2013
Which Came First: Chickens, Eggs, or Trendy Environmentalists?
Okay, I'll 'fess up. I'm not cool enough to know that chickens and eggs are planet-wide scourges, they having made Bill Gates' enemies list and the enemies lists of other filthy rich mostly left-coast lefties. But if Gates is against bourgeois exploitation of cluckers and their in-shell progeny, perhaps we should take a moment to dumpster-dive the scramble that makes up his valiant cause.
Reports the AP via News Republic:
Funded by prominent Silicon Valley investors and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Hampton Creek Foods seeks to disrupt a global egg industry that backers say wastes energy, pollutes the environment, causes disease outbreaks and confines chickens to tiny spaces.
And this chicken nugget from the AP story:
"Our approach is to use plants that are much more sustainable -- less greenhouse gas emissions, less water, no animal involved and a whole lot more affordable -- to create a better food system," said [Josh Tetrick, Hampton Creek Foods CEO] the former linebacker on...(Read Full Article)
