A plant based burger on a grill in California, U.S. (Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Ever since founding Beyond Meat Inc. in 2009 with the then fantastical idea of making meat without animals, Ethan Brown has been giving the equivalent of one extremely long TED Talk. In 2013 he took the stage at the Wired Business conference, explaining that the world had a very real greenhouse gas-emitting meat problem and that venture capitalists could make a bigger impact investing in fake meat than...