As reported by Organic Insider,1
the GMO industry — which is funded, propped up and defended by the tech
and chemical industries — is now seeking to replace animal products
such as beef, poultry, dairy and fish with synthetic biology, cultured
meat, precision fermentation, cellular-based and gene edited foods.
Companies involved in creating these kinds of fake foods even
participated in this year’s Natural Products Expo West, which has
historically been reserved for all-natural and organic companies. Alan
Lewis, vice president of advocacy at Natural Grocers commented on the
presence of food-tech companies at the 2022 Expo:2
“It seems that even with all the smarts and savvy in
the natural products community, we have failed to understand that we are
being targeted by a coordinated global campaign to force the adoption
of synthetics in natural channels. The campaign is spawn of the
notorious GMO lobby, now emboldened and backed by technology moguls.”
The Great Reset in Action
A food goal of The Great Reset
was even declared during that Expo. In his keynote presentation, Nick
McCoy of Whipstitch Capital stated that “The only way we are going to
meet demand, as a planet, is through cultured meat.” It’s an outright
lie, but one that works well for those pushing The Great Reset agenda.
Key arguments for synthetic meats include:
- Sustainability — Raising livestock is unsustainable as it requires
large amounts of land. Synthetic meats can be produced using a small
land footprint, and it can be produced far faster, to keep up with
growing food demands
- Combating climate change — It’s environmentally friendlier than raising livestock, which are a source of methane gas
- Animal welfare — It’s humane, as no animals are killed for human food
These arguments are all provably
false, however, and nothing more than a flimsy veneer to cover the
truth, which is that the shift to patented foods is all about creating
population control through dependency.
The EAT Forum, cofounded by the Wellcome Trust, has developed what they call “The Planetary Health Diet,”3
designed to be applied to the global population. It entails cutting
meat and dairy intake by up to 90%, and replacing it largely with foods
made in laboratories, along with cereals and oil.
Their largest initiative is called FReSH, which aims to transform the
food system by working with biotech and fake meat companies to replace
whole foods with lab-created alternatives. Once tech giants have control
of meat, dairy, cereals and oils, they will be the ones profiting from
and controlling the food supply, and the private companies that control
the food supply will ultimately also control countries and entire
populations.
Biotech will eventually push farmers and ranchers out of the
equation, thereby eliminating any hope of food security. So, the work
being done in the name of sustainability and saving the planet is really
all about shifting control over populations to private corporations.
Those corporations, in turn, are funded and/or owned by the same
globalist cabal that is trying to “reset” everything else in society.
And, just as all the rest of The Great Reset agenda, the planned changes
to the food supply are to the detriment of the global population. It’ll
cause lower levels of health, more chronic disease and, ultimately,
lower life spans.
Synthetic Biology Is GMO Junk Food on Steroids
As noted by Michael Hansen, Ph.D., a senior staff scientist at
Consumer Reports, meat and dairy alternatives are all really just junk
food and GMOs on steroids. Nothing good can come from transitioning away
from real animal foods to manmade alternatives:4
“Companies call these things ‘synthetic biology’ and
‘fermentation technology,’ but these foods are all just GMOs. They are
using terms people do not understand, so that people will not realize
these are GMO ingredients.
These are often highly processed foods, which are associated with increased calorie intake and weight gain, according to a study5 from the National Institute of Health.
And while these companies may be perceived as tech
start-ups, the products they produce are designed to fit into an
industrial food system, and society is clearly moving against this trend
and toward a more agroecological-based food system.
Additionally, they are introducing novel,
genetically-engineered proteins into the food supply that will have
unknown potential impacts on the human microbiome and the environment,
and these companies are self-affirming GRAS status with the FDA, a
voluntary process that is incredibly problematic and falls very, very
short of protecting the consumer.”
Cultured Meat Does Not Spare Lives of Animals
Cultured meat,6
or cell-based meat, is produced from animal tissue cells that are then
grown into larger slabs. One of its main selling points is that you can
eat your beef without harming an animal.
What the PR leaves out, however, is that a key ingredient to grow the
cells is fetal bovine serum (FBS), which is made from the blood of cow
fetuses. FBS is used because it’s a universal growth medium (meaning any
cell can grow in it, whereas other mediums are cell-specific) and
contains growth factors that prevent cell death. In 2017, Slate magazine
detailed the gruesome process of FBS extraction:7
“If a cow coming for slaughter happens to be
pregnant, the cow is slaughtered and bled, and then the fetus is removed
from its mother and brought into a blood collection room.
The fetus, which remains alive during the following
process to ensure blood quality, has a needle inserted into its heart.
Its blood is then drained until the fetus dies, a death that usually
takes about five minutes. This blood is then refined, and the resulting
extract is FBS.”
This is false advertising at its finest. Eating cultured meat means
you’re not merely eating an animal that was killed at the end of its
life, you’re eating food made from an animal that was sacrificed before
it was even born. That’s a pretty bizarre way to promote animal welfare,
if you ask me.
The reality is they need both cows and calf fetuses to make cultured
beef. According to Christiana Musk, founder of Flourish*ink, cultured
meat is “meat without slaughter."8 But clearly, that is a lie, seeing how it’s meat involving the slaughter of baby calves.
Just because you’re not eating the meat from that calf does not mean
it didn’t die in order for you to eat meat. What’s worse, the meat from
that calf was thrown away and its life sacrificed just to drain it of
its blood, which strikes me as far more barbaric and inhumane than
slaughtering and eating a full-grown cow.
Aside from general ethics considerations, cultured beef does not meet vegetarian requirements,9
and one could raise religious objections as well. Jews and Christians,
for example, are prohibited — Biblically speaking — from consuming the
blood of any animal, and in cultured meat, blood is a key ingredient.
Beyond Meat Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Bogus Claims
At present, Singapore is the only country that has approved cultured
meat for commercial sale but, so far, it’s a losing venture. As reported
by the Daily Mail,10 FSB sells for $1,000 per liter, so cultured meat would have to sell at $200,000 per pound to break even.
In the U.S. and elsewhere, another type of beef alternative that
doesn’t cost a fortune to make has taken the market by storm, namely
plant-based meat substitutes such as Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat. I’ve previously exposed the heavy processing and questionable ingredients that go into these products.
Beyond Meat — the primary ingredients11
of which include pea protein, canola oil and rice protein — is now
facing a class action lawsuit that alleges the company has been
misrepresenting the protein content and/or quality, and the overall
nutritional benefit, of nine different products. As reported by
ClassAction.org:12
“According to the proposed class action, a number of
claims made by the company concerning both protein and nutritional
benefits are ‘false and misleading.’
Specifically, the 46-page complaint out of Illinois
alleges that the plant-based meat substitute company ‘miscalculates and
overstates’ its products’ protein content and protein quality.
The suit also alleges Beyond Meat misleads consumers
into believing that its products provide equivalent nutritional benefits
to those afforded by traditional meat-based foods ...
The case claims that industry-standard testing done
by the six plaintiffs revealed that many Beyond Meat items contained
less protein than indicated on their respective product labels ... Even
worse, the suit says, the daily value percentage of protein in each of
the items is ‘a small fraction’ of what Beyond Meat claims ...
‘For example, Defendant’s Beyond Beef Plant-Based
Ground 16oz Patties, which is labeled as ‘20G Per Serving’ and ‘40% DV’
for protein, actually contains 19G Per Serving by nitrogen testing, and
7% DV for protein. This represents an underfill of 5% for protein
content and an underfill of 33% for %DV for protein.’”
Beware Unhealthy Fats
Aside from the fact that you don’t get the amount of protein you
think you’re getting from Beyond Meat, a far greater concern has to do
with the fats it contains — canola oil. There is no animal fat in these
plant-based meat substitutes. Instead, you’re getting industrial seed
oil, which is the worst fat possible.
High amounts can cause severe problems, as it acts as a metabolic
poison that stays put in your cells for up to seven years. I’m convinced
excessive LA in the modern diet is a key contributor to all chronic
diseases.
To be clear, LA is the one fat you absolutely want to minimize in
your diet. Anything above 10 grams a day is likely to cause ill health.
To learn more about the harmful mechanisms of LA, see “How Linoleic Acid Wrecks Your Health.”
In my view, replacing real animal foods with fake substitutes,
regardless of how they’re made, is one of the worst ideas in human
history.
Simply put, there are no benefits — not for the environment, human
nutrition or animal welfare — only hazards and false claims. So, if you
value your health, you would do well to stay clear of animal food
substitutes, be they beef, poultry, fish or dairy substitutes.