Okay, I can definitely agree that this issue shouldn&#x27;t be tackled by him -- there&#x27;s too much emotion linked to diet and people seem to think their behavioural changes consisting of recycling and saving water are enough. But he, as the richest man in the world, could just say that he&#x27;s on a plant based diet (he&#x27;s currently not).<p>I believe a lot of people would quit the luxurious flesh eating habits if someone as Bill Gates says he&#x27;s a vegan and just states his reasons.<p>Yes, it would be a pretty hypocritical statement since he&#x27;s probably having a bigger footprint than most of the people on the planet but still, he shouldn&#x27;t force his meat-dairy-eggs culture onto the impoverished nations of Africa. He&#x27;s doing exactly that, stating also that there are enormous health benefits to eating meat - being surely wrong.<p>From just energy perspective it&#x27;s level-2 diet. Level-0 would be picking berries, trees, hunting animals etc., Level-1 is raising plants, level-2 is raising plants to raise animals.<p>From an energy perspective it is entirely irrational of him to support this in developing world.