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Paul Wood, the first source for this article and the "former pharmaceutical industry executive" who claims that "the reality" is that lab-grown meat will never
by reissbaker 5y ago
Paul Wood, the first source for this article and the "former pharmaceutical industry executive" who claims that "the reality" is that lab-grown meat will never work, is on the board [1] of GALVmed [2], a private sector Product Development Partnership firm that "harnesses the best available expertise and capabilities ... to develop vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for the major livestock diseases impacting small-scale [livestock owners]" [3]. He's also the guy who paid for Huw Hughes — another source quoted repeatedly by the article — for two years to come up with an analysis that claimed GFI's pro-cultured-meat study was fatally flawed.
Interesting that the article leads with Paul Wood's former work but leaves out his current livestock-focused work, in an article downplaying lab-grown meat. Wood claims to not "understand how costly biomanufacturing techniques could ever be used to produce cheap, abundant human food;" I suppose Upton Sinclair had a point about it being difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.
1: https://www.galvmed.org/board/dr-paul-wood/ https://www.galvmed.org/board/dr-paul-wood/
2: https://www.galvmed.org/ https://www.galvmed.org/
3: https://www.galvmed.org/about-us/our-approach/ https://www.galvmed.org/about-us/our-approach/