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MARK ZUCKERBERG GETS INTO THE CATTLE AND FARMING BUSINESSES
Jan. 12, 2024
AgDaily.com reports:
In 2019, Facebook banned livestock sales between private individuals. It also began tightening down the hatches, so to speak, banning animal parts, pelts, and skin sales, including furs. That same year, PETA bought shares in Facebook hoping to have more of a say in the filtering process on Facebook.
But now, Facebook's co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that he's entering the farming and ranching industry. He made the announcement on the social media platform this week that he has begun raising cattle at his Ko'olau Ranch on Kauai. The ranch has been called a "top-secret compound" by some.
Zuckerberg says his goal is to raise "some of the highest quality beef in the world" using Waygu and Angus genetics, feeding the cattle a diet of macadamia meal and beer.
Zuckerberg also announced that he's undertaken another farming enterprise: raising macadamia trees that his daughter has planted. His daughter (we assume 7-year-old Maxima?) will be caring for some of the animals as well.
"Of all my projects, this is the most delicious," Zuckerberg wrote.
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