Bill Gates-Backed Fund Invests $26.5 Million in Livestock Anti-Fart Vaccine
An investment fund established by the controversial billionaire Bill Gates has raised $26.5 million for a Boston-based vaccine developer aiming to mitigate methane gas emissions from livestock.
The goal is to tackle so-called climate change by injecting animals with a vaccine that would make them fart and burp less, as reported by Axios. Climate activists assert that emissions from livestock, including farts and burps, contribute to over 5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
Scientists emphasize that methane possesses a significantly greater ability to trap atmospheric heat compared to carbon dioxide.
Now Bill Gates wants to breed special cows to reduce cow farts…
“By improving the cow breeding and giving them some other inputs, we can reduce their methane emissions. And this new prioritization of the methane work. I applaud that because in terms of the near term,… pic.twitter.com/WXjLRwZRja
— Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1) December 10, 2023
ArkeaBio initially secured funding from Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, later joined by Grantham Foundation, AgriZeroNZ, Rabo Ventures, Overview Capital, and The51 Food & AgTech Fund.
According to reports, Breakthrough Energy Ventures provided the vaccine developer with the first $12 million.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s stated objective is “to advance public goods for global health through technological innovation by accelerating the development and commercialization of novel vaccines and the sustainable manufacture of existing vaccines, defining the global disease burden through better primary data and world-class modeling, and reducing the threat of epidemics through the development and use of innovative tools.”
Bill Gates:Stop cow farts to help slow climate change.
He tells CNN’s Fareed Zakaria that bovine flatulence is a large contributor to global warming and no one knows exactly how to limit gas emissions generated by livestock
This bastard breathing does more damage than any cow pic.twitter.com/7C5euXFXjK
— Sir Rickster (@Rickster_75) September 25, 2023
Over the years, the foundation has funded research and distribution efforts for various vaccines, including those for Covid, HPV, polio, HIV, among others.
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