Plant Based News By Liam Pritchett 6/14/2024
Jeff Bezos Just Boosted His Plant-Based Meat Pledge To $100 Million Jeff Bezos' Earth Fund is investing in alternative meat Jeff Bezos just boosted funding for plant-based and alternative meat development from USD $60 million to $100 million through his Bezos Earth Fund.
The Bezos Earth Fund aims to open a string of “Bezos Centers for Sustainable Protein,” which it hopes will help overcome major technological barriers in widespread alternative protein production such as quality, cost, and nutritional content.
At the end of May, the Earth Fund announced that North Carolina State University (NC State) will be the first location for a Bezos Center.
It has awarded NC State $30 million over five years to create an open-access “biomanufacturing hub for dietary proteins that are environmentally friendly, healthy, tasty, and affordable,” primarily plant-based, precision fermented, and cultivated meat.
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