IT billionaires are racing to produce artificial meat.

The founders of Google, Microsoft, and PayPal have invested in various projects related to the production of artificial meat.

Analysts believe that with the entry of IT billionaires, a real race seems to have emerged in the market for synthetically produced foods.

Illustrative image. (Source: wired.com)

Google co-founder Sergei Brin has spent $325,000 from his savings to fund research into the world's first artificial meat product made from bovine stem cells. Recently, the first ever "artificial beef" banquet took place in London, England.

Although this lab-grown artificial beef, composed of 20,000 muscle fibers produced from stem cells, doesn't yet taste like natural beef, experts expect it to become a viable alternative to livestock meat in the near future. It could address the serious food shortage projected for 2050 while also helping the world reduce billions of tons of methane emissions caused by livestock farming.

Brin isn't the only IT billionaire investing in artificial food production projects. Microsoft founder Bill Gates and PayPal founder Peter Thiel have also invested in producing this meat substitute.

Bill Gates has invested in Hampton Greek Foods, a company specializing in processing plant-based meat substitutes. Billionaire Peter Thiel also believes that the Modern Meadow project, which produces artificial meat from animal stem cells, has great potential.

It seems that as IT giants race to invest in similar projects, the technology for producing artificial meat will have a very bright future. A technological race may be emerging in the market today, the result of which could feed humanity and reduce the burden on the planet's ecosystem by creating a modern livestock industry.

In the context of the modern biological crisis and population explosion, many experts believe that the production of artificial meat seems to be the only savior for modern civilization.

According to (Vietnam+) - VT