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Bill Gates Says Preventing People From Eating Meat Is ‘Too Difficult’

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Bill Gates Says Preventing People From Eating Meat Is ‘Too Difficult’
Bill Gates speaks during a panel discussion at the 2022 Munich Security Conference in Germany on Feb. 18, 2022. Alexandra Beier/Getty Images
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
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10/4/2022|Updated: 10/4/2022
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Bill Gates has said that it is impractical to insist on reducing meat consumption in order to combat climate change.

“Anyone who says that we will tell people to stop eating meat, or stop wanting to have a nice house, and we'll just basically change human desires, I think that that’s too difficult,” Gates said in an interview with Bloomberg. The billionaire went on to point out that such things do not necessarily have to play a key role in fighting climate change.
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Naveen Athrappully
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Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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