- General
- July 13, 2018
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WeWork goes meat free in order to reduce “environmental impact”
image credit : WeWork Major coworking startup WeWork has now made a move to stop covering bills for meals including…
image credit : WeWork
Major coworking startup WeWork has now made a move to stop covering bills for meals including meat for its employees in what it deems as a drive to reduce “environmental impact.”
The 8 year old $20 Billion coworking behemoth will now no longer handle the expense for red meat, poultry or pork for its staff of over 6,000 with the company’s upcoming Summer Camp featuring no meat food options making this known through an e-mail to its employees, according to news provider Bloomberg.
According to the news article, WeWork co-founder Miguel McKelvey is quoted as stating “New research indicates that avoiding meat is one of the biggest things an individual can do to reduce their personal environmental impact,” He continued, “even more than switching to a hybrid car.”
WeWork is adding this to its recent efforts of reducing plastic usage and encourage redistribution of waste food from the company’s events to various food causes.
This move also comes as New York headquartered WeWork just opened a new retail space dubbed WeMRKT where it aims to offer sales of healthy foods selected by WeWork’s users for other members and occupants.
WeWork marks as a significant company to take on this step as several others have found ways to improve environmental sustainability across the globe. Several startups have also launched in recent times to work on the development of lab-made meat and proteins in general.
One notable startup doing this is Just Inc, formerly known as Hampton Creek which is working on the production of plant based proteins, currently valued at more than $1 Billion after raising $220 million to develop what it terms as clean meat which it plans to make available on the market by this year’s end.
Just Inc counts notable and major backers including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Khosla Ventures, Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang’s AME cloud ventures amongst many other notable investors.
WeWork in addition to this has also recently made headlines as Sotfbank’s Investment Advisors CEO Rajeev Misra stated last month of the company currently valued at $20 Billion aiming for more funding at a much larger $35 Billion valuation.
