Something my Father-in-law found...
Impossible Foods, co-founded by Google, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has taken its product, a totally fake plant based hamburger, internationally, setting its sights on countries such as Australia and New Zealand, as well as Europe and Asia. I was not aware of the ownership structure of this compnay, this is on a par with the Vaxx, but much more subtle.
For instance, the Impossible Burger is made with soy leghemoglobin (heme), a color additive produced in a genetically engineered yeast. The ingredient, used to make the burger appear to “bleed” like real meat, never underwent adequate safety testing, according to the Center for Food Safety (CFS).
Last year, CFS challenged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of soy leghemoglobin. CFS claimed that because the ingredient is “new to the human diet, and substantial quantities are added to the Impossible Burger, the FDA should have required extensive safety testing before approving its use as a color additive, as required by law.”
CFS said in its lawsuit that soy leghemoglobin is made using “genetic engineering on steroids,” a process they say has “virtually no regulatory oversight.” Animal studies commissioned by Impossible Foods found soy leghemoglobin caused inflammation or kidney disease and possible signs of anemia.
But Impossible Foods dismissed the findings as “non-adverse” or as having “no toxicological relevance.” Despite the legal challenges, a federal appeals court in May upheld the FDA’s approval of soy leghemoglobin.
The Impossible Burger is now in grocery stores and restaurants nationwide. It is also expected to hit schools K-12 after Impossible Foods secured Child Nutrition Labels, a voluntary food-crediting statement authorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
One may conclude that Gates, Google and Bezos are wealthy enough to be able to claim that what they promote is so useful to their customers that it does not require testing and approval. One could ponder the question whether or not the FDA, USDA, CDC, HHS are merely divisions of the Gates cabal. One might also assume that a food that lacks nutritional value, attacks the kidneys and shows signs of causing anemia would be a valuable adjunct to the Vaxx and enhance its lethality.
Yes, cofounded is misleading. However, depending on the funding structure negotiated, they may have a large say in how things are handled operational at Impossible. I haven’t looked that far into it, but if they put their funding in during any of the VC stages, they technically did help found the company through Angel investment/venture capital offers.
Regardless, you could’ve searched it yourself and said, “Hey! There’s nothing to indicate they cofounded the company from the beginning. Perhaps we should edit this so it isn’t misleading?”
Don’t fall into the trap of relying on others to do your research. Unless, of course, you’re here in bad faith. Research and bad faith don’t go well together.
"if if they may possibly maybe"
My point is the statement that they were cofounded by Google/Bezos/Gates is wrong, 100%. Whether or not you can guess their pull within the company is irrelevant to the fact that the statement made to lead things off is factually incorrect.
Also, I wasn't the one who made the original comment. I've only replied to you. I'm not the one who called OP out on their incorrect information.
I'm not sure why you're more concerned with how this was called out, instead of with OP for spreading false information
Because $500 million VC from Google and the Gates Foundation to get Impossible off the ground is the same as founding the company.
I have no mod power to get OP to change anything.
I’m more concerned with people who claim it doesn’t matter that these entities are involved with Impossible from the very beginning just because of the wording choice use.
No it isn't.
You don't have mod power but you are defending OP's statement instead of practicing what you preach, doing the research, and saying "Hey! there actually isn't any evidence that they founded the company
Nobody is claiming it doesn't matter which entities are involved. Word choice is important when sharing stories. If you want to have credibility when sharing facts, you have to be factual in the information you're sharing. To do otherwise is sloppy work.
I am defending them because they brought up that Google and Co. have been involved in the business with massive amounts of funding. People make mistakes on wording—$500 million is too much of an investment to be ignored.
Why are you so chafed about this?