Italy Is Right: Synthetic Meat Is Not Safe
But that doesn't stop the WEF and Green Lobby...
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The LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime; And His song will be with me in the night, A prayer to the God of my life.
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THE DANGERS OF SYNTHETIC MEAT
*footnotes can be found at the bottom of the post
Along with cricket paste and cockroach milk, synthetic meat is the other major food pyramid group pushed by the WEF. [1]
They argue it is part of resetting the world economy:
“As the world looks to reset its economy, along with food systems, in a cleaner way post-pandemic, one more sustainable solution coming to fruition is cultured meat.” [1]
side note: a great exposé on the Great Reset and the ultimate goal of the WEF and the confiscation of all your belongings is Glenn Beck’s Dark Future.
This all came at a crossroads when Italy’s government initially banned synthetic meat due to health and environmental concerns. [8]
Cultured meat is only sustainable if one moves the goalposts. Oxford Dictionary defines sustainable as:
“involving the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment” [2]
Based on this definition, meat grown in a lab seems to be the antithesis of sustainable, which is why the WEF hijacked the term with this one instead (also from Oxford):
*that can continue or be continued for a long time” [2]
Shifting the goalposts right underneath the noses of environmentalists, people like Bill Gates can argue [3] that lab grown meat is “sustainable” when it is more synthetic and unnatural than cheez-wiz, not to mention potentially more dangerous.
The Center for Food Safety, a non-profit that promotes sustainable and ecological food choices sounds the alarm that synthetic meat’s growth process gives an opportunity for potential cancer-enhancing compounds to enter the human body via digestion. [4]
They say the way the meat is produced include what are called “octo-genes,” which are used to force pluripotent stem cells to keep growing. Under this scenario, cancerous cells can replicate unfettered in the synthetic meat, with no immune system, like what is present in animals, to remove their growth. This may be fine for the lab, but there is no long-term safety data on what these genes do to humans, and also how cancerous the meat we consume would be.
Another major selling point of this synthetic mest is that it will virtually eliminate e.Coli, Salmonella, and other auch bacteria. However, we’ve learned from the COVID and AIDS epidemics that lab mistakes are just as deadly and spreadable as natural ones. Who is to say one meat lab won’t take lax safety approaches and infect the entire populace with something? It’s already happened with salmonella once before. [7]
In a review on synthetic meat research published in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers In Nutrition, scientists state:
given the great number of cell multiplications taking place, some dysregulation of cell lines is likely to occur as happens in cancer cells, although we can imagine that deregulated cell lines can be eliminated for production or consumption. This may have unknown potential effects on the muscle structure and possibly on human metabolism and health when in vitro meat is consumed. [5]
Moreover these same scientists state that synthetic meat is also lacking in key nutrients like Vitamin B12 and Iron, which are in abundant supply in natural beef. Additionally, they warn that the nutrients present within the synthetic beef may be less bioavailable to the human digestive system anyways due to how the synthetic beef actually grows.
To add insult to injury, the Center for Food Safety also reports that synthetic meat is not always cruelty free. To make the meat, scientists literally slice skeletal muscle off of still-living animals, [1] [4] and then get right to work experimenting on it. If this process were scaled up, imagine how many animals would be, literally, sliced to shreds while still living?
But that isn’t all. Usually, when the meat is cultured, it uses the blood of dead calves to create the growth environment. [5] Scientists create a synthetic serum developed from baby cow blood which also happens to include hormones and other growth factors.
Imagine all the dead calves that would be needed to pull this off on a massive scale? The reality is that all we would be doing is simply killimg cows when they are babies instead of adults, which is arguably MORE cruel than how we comsume meat as it is.
Not to mention, synthetic meat would cause an increase of CO2 into the air, as more fossil fuel usage would be required to heat the baby cow blood serum so the meat can grow. [5] Isn’t all of this kind of defeating the purpose of sustainability and environmentalism?
Now, proponents of synthetic meat may argue that Methane would be significantly reduced by the decrease in living cows, hence making it good for the environment. While this is true, a peer-reviewed study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems concluded that, over the long term, because CO2 stays in the atmosphere significantly longer than Methane, the production of synthetic meat would actually lead to a net GAIN in greenhouse gases over the long haul. [6]
Moreover, the sticker shock of the price of synthetic meat isn’t sustainable either. The price of a synthetic beef patty is about 900% higher than that of a natural one. Can people really afford to pay a 900% increase in their grocery store beef prices? Is this what’s best for those on food syamps or in lower-income jobs? Is this sustainable for human beings? Obviously not.
When you factor in all these issues, synthetic meat is a really hard sale. It lacks vital nutrients such as Vitamin B12 and Iron, has the potential to cause cancer, and requires not just the mass slaughter of baby cows, but also the painful slicing up of adult ones. It also is not environmentally friendly, will lead to an increase in greenhouse gases, and also introduces the potential to skyrocket pamdemics of lab-breaks of infectious bacterial strains.
Still think synthetic meat is a “sustainable” and “healthy” alternative? I certainly don’t.
SOURCES:
[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/will-we-eat-lab-grown-meat-world-food-day/
[2] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/english/sustainable
[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/14/1018296/bill-gates-climate-change-beef-trees-microsoft/
[4] https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/blog/6458/is-lab-grown-meat-healthy-and-safe-to-consume
[5] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2020.00007/full
[6] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2019.00005/full
[7] https://www.fromthelabbench.com/from-the-lab-bench-science-blog/sick-in-the-food-science-laboratory
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