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In what may be the biggest news story of 2015, Richard Branson made a stunning announcement yesterday outside his San Francisco-based Virgin America headquarters. The airline mogul said that on January 1, 2016, a new fleet of Virgin America airplanes will be rolled out in what the renegade entrepreneur calls his “most important innovation to date.” In exactly eight months, Branson will unveil a subsidiary of his wildly successful airline brand. The name of that subsidiary? Vegan America.
The Virgin Group founder, who owns more than 400 companies and has a net worth of $4.9 billion, told reporters how the idea for a vegan airline came to be. While hosting a CEO mastermind weekend at Necker Island (Branson’s private Caribbean retreat), he and pals Bill Gates, Al Gore, and Chinese investor Li Ka-shing went out for a sunset balloon ride. According to Branson, it was during that ride that he finally made the connection between factory farming and environmental destruction.