Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “You Will Eat lab-grown ‘meat’ and bugs — and Be Happy. Or so the forces of the Great Food Reset believe. Bill Gates is gobbling up U.S. farmland (now the single largest owner) and the World Economic Forum pushes eating bugs, and the U.S. FDA and USDA edge closer to approving lab-grown ‘meat’ — Bon appetite?!
If you want to eat lab-grown or bugs, that should be your choice. But, the climate agenda/Great Reset goal is to collapse modern high-yield agriculture and meat production to meet net-zero climate goals. As shortages and prices skyrocket on meat and other foods, it will be much easier to push insect-eating and lab-grown ‘meat’ to the public.
A food crisis and transformation are just the ticket for even more chaos that the WEF can exploit for their Reset agenda. The World Economic Forum is so eager to promote synthetic ‘meat’ that they are touting numerous ways to print up to 6 kilograms of the fake meat an hour. As part of this new coerced Great Diet Reset, the WEF has advocated eating bugs to save the planet. The Davos-based group has explained, “Why we might be eating insects soon.”
Our future is being planned by our overlords, load up on eating bugs to save the planet! It is a future that will happen, only if we allow it. It’s time for the Great Reject. Rise up and defy the Great Reset.”
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano: “You Will Eat lab-grown ‘meat’ and bugs — and Be Happy. Or so the forces of the Great Food Reset believe. Bill Gates is gobbling up U.S. farmland (now the single largest owner) and the World Economic Forum pushes eating bugs, and the U.S. FDA and USDA edge closer to approving lab-grown ‘meat’ — Bon appetite?!
If you want to eat lab-grown or bugs, that should be your choice. But, the climate agenda/Great Reset goal is to collapse modern high-yield agriculture and meat production to meet net-zero climate goals. As shortages and prices skyrocket on meat and other foods, it will be much easier to push insect-eating and lab-grown ‘meat’ to the public.
A food crisis and transformation are just the ticket for even more chaos that the WEF can exploit for their Reset agenda. The World Economic Forum is so eager to promote synthetic ‘meat’ that they are touting numerous ways to print up to 6 kilograms of the fake meat an hour. As part of this new coerced Great Diet Reset, the WEF has advocated eating bugs to save the planet. The Davos-based group has explained, “Why we might be eating insects soon.”
Our future is being planned by our overlords, load up on eating bugs to save the planet! It is a future that will happen, only if we allow it. It’s time for the Great Reject. Rise up and defy the Great Reset.”
By: Marc Morano – Climate Depot
Climate Depot Special Report
Lab-grown meat moves closer to American dinner plates – ‘Grown in enormous steel vessels called bioreactors & processed’ into meat-like substance– Eat lab-grown meat from ‘massive bioreactors’ to save the earth! ‘Our planet is in crisis’ – Restaurateur Andrés, known for his work on global food security, told Reuters he wants to sell cultivated meat because of its environmental benefits. “We can see in what is happening all around us, in every country around the globe, that our planet is in crisis,” he said.
(Reuters) – Once the stuff of science fiction, lab-grown meat could become reality in some restaurants in the United States as early as this year. Executives at cultivated meat companies are optimistic that meat grown in massive steel vats could be on the menu within months after one company won the go-ahead from a key regulator. … Cultivated meat is derived from a small sample of cells collected from livestock, which is then fed nutrients, grown in enormous steel vessels called bioreactors, and processed into something that looks and tastes like a real cut of meat. Just one country, Singapore, has so far approved the product for retail sale. But the United States is poised to follow. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in November that a cultivated meat product – a chicken breast grown by California-based UPSIDE Foods – was safe for human consumption. …
Another draw is that growing meat in a steel vessel instead of in a field could reduce the environmental impact of livestock, which are responsible for 14.5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions through feed production, deforestation, manure management, and enteric fermentation – animal burps – according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Europeans now also allowed to eat cricket powder and small mealworms – Earlier in January, the Commission also approved the use of small mealworms. The small mealworm may be used as (spread) paste, frozen, dried and powdered. Powdered mealworm larvae will also serve as a food supplement.
Daily Wire: Cricket powder will now be permitted in a number of food products, such as multigrain bread, crackers, cereal bars, biscuits, beer-like beverages, chocolates, sauces, whey powder, soups, and other items “intended for the general population,” according to the new regulation. Cricket One, a company that asserts that the insects are “nutritionally more efficient” and serve as a more reliable “source of alternative protein” than livestock, submitted the original application.
Watch: Morano on OAN TV on Great Food Reset – U.S. soon to be eating ‘lab-grown meat’ – Broadcast January 25, 2023 – OAN TV – In Focus With Addison Smith
OpEd: The Great Food Reset – By Marc Morano
The Great Food Reset has arrived: Expect ‘real’ food shortages, Biden declares – Meanwhile, Bill Gates & China buy up U.S. farmland– Climate Depot’s Morano: “If the Davos crowd of the World Economic Forum were looking for a better global environment on which to enact their central planning vision of a Great Reset, it would be hard to imagine a more conducive chaotic time than right now.” See: Watch video: World Economic Forum’s utopian Great Reset vision of 2030 – ‘You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy’ – ‘Whatever you want you’ll rent & it’ll be delivered by drone’ – Meat will be ‘an occasional treat’
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Watch: Morano’s 20 min. speech on The Great Food Reset Takeover of Our Farms & Food Supply
Kid’s manipulated with bug-eating PSYOP: ”Chips are great aren’t they, and these chips are even better, because I think they are better for you, did you know that? Yeah, that way you know, mum and dad might let you have more chips. Good stuff” the interviewer said.
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”Many children have the power of pester, so in some cases can be great agents of dietary change within the family” said Verity Jones from the University of the West of England in Bristol.
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Marc Morano commented: “The Great Reset is happening here and now. This is not circa 1991, when we we were talking about a shadowy secretive vision of a New World Order. This is 2022 now and we are seeing a ‘new normal’ being imposed upon the world.
1) Our current energy system is being intentionally collapsed ;
2) Our transportation system is being intentionally collapsed; (and our freedom of movement is being stripped away)
3) Our First Amendment free speech rights are being collapsed by government & corporate collusion;
4) Our high-yield agricultural system is being intentionally collapsed to create man-made food shortages and chaos; and
5) The ability to eat meat is being banned to compel us to eat ‘lab-grown’ fake meat and eat insects. Artificially caused food shortages will create demand for insect eating. And our betters are using our children as hand-picked little ministers of propaganda to promote insect eating and ‘pester’ adults to comply with the agenda. (See:The Great Food Reset has arrived: Expect ‘real’ food shortages, Biden declares – Meanwhile, Bill Gates & China buy up U.S. farmland)
Great Reset By Marc Morano – Chapter 12 Excerpt: ‘COVID Lockdowns Morph to Climate Lockdowns’
Michael Shellenberger: ‘I mean look at these guys. They’re obsessed’:
‘Green Elitism Behind Farmer Crackdowns’ – ‘What role is the World Economic Forum playing?’
Dan Bongino: Here to weigh in is the author of the upcoming book, The Great Reset…Marc, no one knows more about the Great Reset than you, you literally wrote a book on it, we just showed the cover. …Is what we are seeing in the Netherlands a sign of things to come if the climate activists get their way here in the U.S. and other places?
Marc Morano: ‘We know that Bill Gates’ goal is to get us to stop eating meat and get us to start eating lab-grown, vegetable oil-processed fake meat. The same with Al Gore. The same with the World Economic Forum. They are pushing insect-eating as well. The United Nations, the World Economic Forum…That’s been their goal, the whole entire goal. First of all, you have the World Economic Forum which Bill Gates is a prominent member. You have Bill Gates buying up farmland — the single largest American farmland owner now, according to NBC News. I know no one likes a monopoly so don’t worry Dan. China is also gobbling up American farmland. So it’s a competition. We actually have good old market competition — China versus Bill Gates. Who do you want to win that battle? …
This will have devastating consequences because as the old Chinese proverb says, ‘When food is on the table there are many problems. When there is no food, there is only one problem.’
HOW TO FEED A NATION – THE MIRACLE OF THE MODERN FOOD SUPPLY
Soylent very Green!
Vatty food does not sit well with me.
C’mon, put a few crunchy crickets on top…you will love it….yummy.
Saw this in a Florida grocery store. There are other colours, but I imagine, only the green ones are “people”.
I think you mean “Why they will be eating insects soon.”
No way on earth will WEF members be eating insects.
Redge, they (the Pretentious Greenies) want to go full circle, back to the 1800’s? Remember where Mark Twain, in the book “Roughing It” arrived in Wendover, on the border of Utah and Nevada, and wrote about the local Indians (Goshute, I think) crawling around, on hands and knees, to eat the Mormon Crickets?
What they don’t tell you is that there has to be a feed stock to make fake meat or fake milk using fermentation vats .
Nothing added to a very small bit produces nothing .
In a study of fake milk made in large vats the large quantities of sugar and many other nutrients ,proteins and minerals was fed to the rapidly growing cells that have been extracted from animals.
Fake meat is no different as stem cells are taken from live or freshly slaughtered animals and then fed on proteins ,minerals and carbohydrates as the cells multiply .
The world is going mad because methane from farmed animals is a closed cycle because all fodder eaten by farmed animals has absorbed CO2 from the atmosphere .
The very small amount of methane emitted during digestion is broken down in the upper atmosphere within ten years into water vapour and CO2.
Not one atom of carbon or molecule containing carbon ( CO2 or CH4 )is added to the atmosphere in any 10 year period ..
Yes. I said something similar below.
When you consider both the energy and essential chemical inputs, nothing much is changed by this fake-meat theory.
Nor will it. When they can more efficiently make essential amino acids using energy from solar panels to fix atmospheric nitrogen and also pay for their own construction, the world may take notice. Meanwhile, biology makes the best use of photosynthesis to make these things. It’s had a few billion years of practice.
Fusion energy may always be 30 years away, but this will always be 60 years away.
Agree 100% and i will add this whole system will need to be kept sterile this will never be cheap the whole plan might be to get consumers to think they are getting lab grown meat where in reality they are being fed Textured vegetable protein
You absolutely nailed it Graham. Net zero is about the whole system, and livestock do not magically make more carbon dioxide than they eat. The Warmmunists consider burning wood to be net zero for the same reason.
Lab grown “meat” is likely to be bastardized to the point of causing cancer, or worse.
These psychopaths have to be stopped.
They make things to make lots of money and then force it down our throats. I’ll eat what the elite eat, or I’ll eat the elite!
Klaus or Bill Gates on on spit would strike fear into their hearts They deserve it
Supposedly they taste like pork… I’ll take the loin, please :<)
«It’s okay to have a steak when there’s a chicken in every pot. But if you’re eating steak and the majority of people have nothing, it doesn’t take long for you to look like a chicken.» ― Mr. Ishiguro (Freefall)
I wonder what Davos long pig tastes like?
Probably too much fat and poor muscle tone to be good eating.
Too much fat from unhealthy diet of fizzy wine and Wagu steak, and poor muscle tone from sitting in private aircraft for too long.
But think of the crackling.
That’ll be the crackling of the $100 bills in their pockets.
There’s no such thing as too much fat! Thats the tasty bit.
Enough seasoning and proper cooking: Nice, crispy bacon!
Full of shit.
Why add any protein of any sort to bread or beer. What is wrong with alum in The bread and water in the beer. That is the stuff for the serfs.
What is wrong with the TwitaceGramPost generation? Do you have to type every word of the Tweet your are plagiarising, then a copy of the actual tweet, then a paraphrase of said tweet?
I know it’s hard work, coming up with new, fresh, interesting sentences, but if you want to pretend at professionalism, go read a few actual books to see how paragraphs are built.
Jeez! I scanned the rest, though, absolutely bugger-all new. Blah blah Net Zero blah blah.
It’s got nothing to do with anything but a certain group trying to enslave the human race by being the sole providers of goods and services. As long as there is a cow, chicken or pig walking around, the danger exists that we may try to feed ourselves, which is bad, bad slave behaviour.
And stop calling them The Elite. They are misanthrope scumbag criminal gangsters, and any other name perpetuates their mafia rule.
You’re referring to ‘trivia; irrelevance’ and ‘minutiae’
Sadly it’s what passes for science these days.
Everybody’s at it.
Quote:”And stop calling them The Elite. They are misanthrope scumbag criminal gangsters, and any other name perpetuates their mafia rule.
Almost, they are Zombies, they don’t really know what they’re doing apart from copying, politically-correct style, what all else goes on around them.
Humanity has died, it was predicted
Persevere though, as far as 0:47 > 0:50 in the youtub vid.
The speaker is telling that the shyte they’re confecting ‘must taste right‘
And it won’t, it never will no matter how much seasoning or flavours they add.
It will always be missing something that doesn’t taste of anything – Fat.
Food manufacturers know this and is why it could all get very scary indeed.
Because when they are confecting ‘Low Fat’ products, they use sugar to simulate fat.
It gives ‘mouth feel’ and thus the ‘food’ tastes better, or as it should, or as its imagined it should
But that is all this fake meat is = sugar. Even it if was 100% protein, all our digestions would do is turn that protein into Glucose/
We Are Not Carnivores – we are Lipivores
I’ve been using that word for ages but it doesn’t even seem to have an official definition.
Does anybody even know what a lipid is?
No matter, I ain’t watched this but just the intro explains all my food-related ravings around here since forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1C5wW7hePs
She nails it at 45 seconds in.
It explains everything that is wrong. And, everything is wrong
We had about 50 years of “fat is bad for you”, “low-fat food is good for you” and “complex carbohydrates are the best source of nutrition”.
Things are changing, but it takes time to re-educate two whole overnourished generations (plus, of course the elites aren’t even trying). But I take comfort in having just eaten Greek yoghurt with 11% fat and no added sugar. That wasn’t an option a few years ago. Plus, eating my one thin slice of toast spread with about 20 grams of no-trans-fat margarine – and not even feeling guilty about it (marmalade being just a fond memory).
High-fat, low-carbohydrate diet has kept type 2 diabetes at bay for me for almost three years, and I feel physically great – for my advanced years. If I could just get my brain functions back from the lingering effects of long covid, life would be just peachy.
“And stop calling them The Elite.“. I do agree, but what to use instead? They are elitist.(Cambridge dictionary – elitist – someone who believes that some things should be controlled or owned only by the richest or best educated people), but is ‘elitist’ punchy enough? Maybe WUWT could run a competition to find a new word?
Vermin?
The Godfathers (and mother…)
The Illusionnatti?
They’re the parasite class. A kakistocracy. Nothing elite about them.
See also http://weblog.ceicher.com/2008/04/3-point-writing.html —
[…] It’s the “3 point writing system.” I will give an extremely condensed example here:
I am going to explain that all brontosauruses are thin at one end, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.
All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.
I have just explained that all brontosauruses are thin at one end, much thicker in the middle and then thin again at the far end.
[…] It’s horrible. Please stop doing that.
In the U.K. there is an advertising campaign where a young girl invites people to enjoy the goodness of meat and dairy
That’s what I intend to do
YOU ARE SO RIGHT
.I have been farming for 65 years producing milk , meat and cereals in New Zealand .
Who in their right mind would eat fermented gunk when there is beautiful natural food available.
Our butter ,cheese and ice cream is some of the best in the world .
Our grass fed beef and lamb is also some of the best,why would anyone even consider eating bugs .
I suppose if you don’t have anything else bugs are OK.
A friend who trained as a Royal Marine Commando was in the middle east somewhere and says that the dish of fried locusts and honey they were given to eat was delicious.
Have you ever heard of swarms of locusts that can hatch out and devour every growing green plant then fly in large swarms to another location.
If all your feed crops had been destroyed and after you had eaten your animals locusts would be all that was left .
No thanks
I’ve not only heard of them, I’ve sailed through one of them in the Red Sea. It took 2 days to get all the dead bodies off the ship, and no we didn’t fry any to see what they were like.
But I say again, if the alternative is no food at all, why not eat them?
They would do well to get some therapy. They’re obsessed with controlling others to a psychotic level.
It’s the thucking ferapy that got us to this stage..
The main issue here is not climate change but nutrition. The health consequences of obesity, overweight, and junk food consumption, are greater concerns than climate change. More than half the population of adults in America and Europe are carrying between one and two 20kg bags of excess food with every step they make. How ridiculous! Imagine if you are a ‘normal’ weight person carrying two 20Kg bags to the airport, one in each hand. That is what an obese person is carrying, spread over their entire body, with every step they make.
The nutritional value of lab-produced meat is not yet clear, but insects are definitely nutritious.
“Animal-based foods have traditionally been viewed as dietary staples because they provide many essential nutrients; however, edible insects have the potential to serve as healthy, sustainable alternatives to these because of their nutrient contents. Edible insects may have superior health benefits due to their high levels of vitamin B12, iron, zinc, fiber, essential amino acids, omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and antioxidants.”
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33397123/#:~:text=Edible%20insects%20may%20have%20superior,6%20fatty%20acids%2C%20and%20antioxidants.
And here’s a list of countries that have been consuming insects for many years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_edible_insects_by_country
So, you’re no fan of personal freedom and responsibility?
That list is very funny…
European Union
(Mainly: Netherland & Belgium)[6][7]
Yellow Mealworm (of Beetle Tenebrio molitor)
Buffalo Worm
Waxworm Larvae
Locusta migratoria (Locust / Grasshopper)
Hermetia illucens (Black Soldier Flies)
And that has to be crow-barred on the Belgians and Dutch. If you want to eat insects that’s fine. But don’t get ideas about forcing other people to eat them.
Don’t be silly. No-one is forcing anyone to eat a particular food. You always have a choice, but most choices are based on taste and appearance, rather than nutritional content, a lack of which causes huge expense in medical treatment and blood-pressure medication, and so on.
I’m just making the point that insects are a nutritious food, so promoting their use is very sensible.
“The health consequences of obesity, overweight, and junk food consumption, are greater concerns than climate change.”
Of concern to you, I take it?
You first. The rest of us don’t want mandates; we want choices.
Just wait till the food inspectors become involved .
All sheep and cattle are inspected in our meat works .
How many locusts or meal worms for a meal ?.
The stomach and intestines are carefully cut out and discarded with animals
Eating insects you are going to eat every thing including their stomach contents.
Or am I wrong?
Do you need to kill a cricket to eat it? – Or can one munch away quite nicely on fresh live crickets. Fresh is best! – Seasonal food too maybe, I only hear crickets in my lawns in summer. Eat local, no imported or canned crickets for me!
“You know, I don’t think there’s a single piece of meat in this stew. Looks like meat. Tastes like meat. It isn’t meat at all. Doubleplus good!” – George Orwell, 1984
George can’t have ventured North West, meatless stew is nothing unusual. It’s called “blind scouse” hereabouts.
Unlucky hunters here in Michigan often eat a meatless soup called “track soup”.
Well he did write a book about the industrial working class of Lancashire and Yorkshire in England before WW2 ‘The Road to Wigan Pier’ so I guess he may have come across a few ‘Scousers’
Chicken Bog without the chicken in the Low Country.
“Have you ever heard of a “Wish Sandwich? A Wish Sandwich is where you have two slices of bread and you *wish* you had some meat.
Bow Bow Bow”
There are already large industrialised non-meat processing factories turning our fake meat and other highly manufactured vegetable and fungal based protein. For those that fool themselves it’s natural, ok.
But the push to reduce or eliminate meats and therefore dairy, to replace them with bugs should be resisted. The answer might be to ‘EAT YOUR GREENS’. It’s meat after all.
I can’t believe it’s not butter! , err I mean real meat from a slaughtered beast!
Artificial meat could be the most important development in human history since the beginning of agriculture 10,000 years ago.
In principle there is no reason why artificial meat grown from stem cells would be any different from natural meat taken from a slaughtered animal. It might even be cleaner, healthier and more nutritious than the natural product. I realize that we aren’t there yet but it is coming. And when it happens millions of farmers and ranchers are going to be displaced. Small rural towns and maybe whole countries that depend on agriculture are going to find that their economic base is gone. I don’t see why you couldn’t grow algae in factories as feedstock, perhaps using nuclear energy to produce artificial light, and then use the feedstock to produce unlimited quantities of artificial meat.
I’m not commenting on the merits of this change. I’m just saying that it is coming. And it is going to have revolutionary social implications. Just like the Neolithic hunter/gatherers 10,000 years ago couldn’t have foreseen that agriculture would lead to the development of cities and civilization we can’t really foresee what this new enormous change in food production will eventually lead to. There will be vast social changes.
one easy prediction is that land ownership will be severely restricted to a very wealthy few. the wildlife and resources on said land will become forbidden to the general public. gates is already buyng farm land as fast as he can.
sounds familiar.
Hell, it couldn’t taste any worse than the factory raised chicken and pork they now sell. They’ve already cost reduced the feed in minerals, vitamins, protein, etc. to the point where store-bought chicken and pork no longer taste like real (i.e., free range) chicken and pork.
How do the likely yields, area required, water inputs, energy inputs and nutrient inputs compare to farming and grazing?
Meat is only a small portion of agricultural production. Is this covering the replacement of grains as well?
Manufacturing artificial fake meat is not magic .You cannot feed stem cells on fresh air .
Vast quantities of nutrient has to be fed to the stem cells and this has to come from some factory somewhere .
There is no free lunch .
At least with conventional farming CO2 is free and abundant to grow fodder for animals .
The more C02 in the atmosphere the faster vegetation grows .
Fertilizer needs to be applied to the land as required ,and vegetation can extract minerals from the soil via their root system .
I disagree with your comment that we will see enormous change .
Around 10 years ago growing towers using hydroponics were all the rage being talked up around the world .
I see there is one proposed for the city of Shenzhen in China but some over there could not make a profit and closed down.
Looking at where they are, they are going nowhere with the lab grown meat thing.
The essential amino acids still have to come from somewhere. The cheapest source is still from traditional animal and vegetable sources. The locusts the Pharaoh could have ‘harvested’ didn’t make all those amino acids themselves, they ate the plants.
As to consumer choice, I’ll stick with Marmite if we are forced to consume amino acids synthesised at the basic level. (It’s a yeast extract for American readers.) Like beer, it’s an acquired taste. You really can learn to love it, but your kids will never pester you for it at the supermarket checkout. They just like sugar. Basic biology.
Australians can take a running jump with their Vegemite crap. The real stuff is British.
Agreed. Marmite beats Vegemite out of sight!
There have been a few excellent analysis pushing back on the assumptions that lead to concluding land is better used for production of grains/legumes than to support production of meat.
The punchline is that not all arable land is created equal, and a lot of it is not workable by machinery, and only suitable as pasture. Those marginal pasture lands cannot grow soybeans (or soylent green).
And not grazing it will lead to uncontrollable wild fires
IIRC there is about 4 times as much land suitable for pasture as there is suitable for cropland, so dreams of producing plant protein crops instead of meat are just misinformed…a polite way of saying stupid.
More Soylent Green!
The people behind won’t be content to let us proles choose, or not choose to it this. They will literally attempt to force this down our throats, just like with EVs, “green” energy and the Covid jabs.
Life is a big shit sandwich and we’re all about to take a big bite.
Jeez, flicking Android autocorrect!
Some of my favorite reasons not to bother on the fake meat:
Our bodies can’t absorb the nutrition because it it doesn’t break down the same way as meat.
It requires GMO for the texture and feel.
It is just another big business based on guilt.
https://m.nutritioninsight.com/news/highly-nutritious-meat-substitutes-on-the-market-cannot-be-absorbed-by-the-human-body-study-flags-331956.html
“Once the stuff of science fiction, lab-grown meat could become reality in some restaurants in the United States as early as this year.”
Where all the people that are against GMO foods?
I have ownership of farm/ranch realestate and from what I’m hearing there is a
large market for farmland. I regularly receive unsolicited offers to sell. My neighbor
retired young after getting bought out. He got an offer he couldn’t refuse, it was not
listed for sale.. The new owner has it leased out and lives outside the area.
I’ve been working on the current farm census report and have to say it’s extremely intrusive, never seen anything like that before in past census reports. 1984 stuff.
https://www.agweek.com/business/30-000-an-acre-eye-popping-farmland-prices-in-northwest-iowa-have-an-impact-across-the-midwest
If it’s artificially and chemically manufactured in a vat, it ain’t meat. If humans were meant to consume insects and crawling vermicular lifeforms, there would have been no need to develop agriculture.
I don’t think it’s asking too much for Exxon to invest a small amount in this business in order to derail it after the resulting mass protests. If that fails to work, then get Monsanto involved.
This entire discussion is ludicrous. Whether bugs or lab grown, what would it take to scale these up to feed 7 billion people. Lab produced food cannot be as efficient as naturally produced foods. And where are the bug farms?
No matter the type of food, it takes energy, water, oxygen, carbon, and nutrients to produce food. The earth provides an abundance of these, and worldwide agriculture has been adapted to efficiently work with local conditions to produce bountiful supplies. As food is harvested and produced, the essentials are depleted and must be supplied via supplemental nutrients, organic carbon, etc.
The idea of quickly scaling up bug farming and lab meat is as insurmountable and infeasible as trying to replace fossil fuels in a decade or two, and the proposed alternatives are as ridiculous and wind and solar farms.
Only an idiot would suggest eating bugs on a massive scale. Nutrition aside, the bugs won’t just jump onto your plate from under a rock. An entire, massive agricultural industry would have to be developed.
Meanwhile, here on the ranch I’ll just keep on growing my own animal protein weither I eat it or not. I can attest that dried meal-worms do make for a good meal–the chickens love them. Currently about 8 bucks a pound—can wait to see the price once they are people food also.
Goats are dropping kids, and a couple of young LH steers are ready for processing. Life is great.
Time to stock up on SPAM!
(And people wonder about what’s really in a hot dog!)
And how much energy does it take to “grow meat” in a lab?! And where does said energy come from?!
Once again and as always, the answer to the second question will be “fossil fuels.”
Farms and ranches are experiencing excellent yields, there is no food shortages, Ehrlich notwithstanding, so why this codswallop? I suspect there is another adenda😱
I remember hearing about “Mad Cow” disease.
Who knew they were the scientist?
When I was a kid Dad would sometimes have Goetta. It was a depression-era food in the Cincinnati area that he still liked. (I wouldn’t touch it as a kid. When I got older I tried and I like it too!) Basically, it is sausage cut with pin-head oats to stretch the meat budget during the Depression.
Maybe they should call this artificial meat “Gotcha!”?
Lab grown meat is the stupidest idea imaginable.
Consider how the vat meat is fed: sugar water? agar? It sure ain’t grass or even corn/soy.
Worldwide agar production peaked at around 10 million tons.
Worldwide sugar production is around 180 million metric tons.
Worldwide meat production is around 325 million tons.
Obviously no significant industrial scale lab meat production can EVER occur. This is the usual garbage that passes for progress these days: first world uber-rich pandering rather than any improvement of the civilizational bottom line.
Today we see packages with “selling points” so people choose to buy it.
How many of those points will they no longer be allowed to use?
“Free Range”?
“Organic”?
“Natural”?
“Nothing Artificial”?
“Plant Based”?
While I am in complete agreement that the elite will try to execute this via their standard cramdown / sit down and shut up routine, there are some things on the horizon that lab-grown meats (and veggies) will take advantage of.
There is an ongoing effort in the medical world to start growing organs, replacement parts, even blood, in labs. Cells seem to be the starter. Labs (vats) provide the nutrients. Not a large step to go from that to edibles.
There’s an outfit that calls itself Wildtype working on growing sushi-grade salmon from a cellular start. They’ve been in the media for over a year. Combine those guys with the fish farmers (onshore and offshore), the genetically altered salmon (so-called frankenfish), and the commercial salmon industry here in AK are about to be ground into economic dust. I give them less than a decade.
It occurs to me to ask what is the difference between this and a years-old sourdough starter used to make bread?
It’s coming like a freight train. The trick will be to make sure it is done under market forces rather than typical leftist top-down cramdown. Cheers –