I love taste of meat, I hate the animal cruelty. So this topic intrigues me. But I can also see a very dark side to this concept.The process to which they collect the cells is as bad or worse.
The act of draining a cow’s unborn calf of blood is a legal practice but it often results in intense pain and suffering. The research companies leave the pregnant cows standing for hours in pens and cages while they await their fate.
Some of the pregnant cows give birth while in transit, which is a violation of animal welfare codes.
While the practice is legal (in some respects), a whistleblower obtained by the Herald On Sunday is calling out the industry for its brutal practices. The whistleblower has chosen to conceal their identity as a way to mitigate any potential ramifications for exposing the vaccine industry.
“Some will leave the cow pregnant as long as possible to get a bigger fetus to get more blood, to get more money,” the whistleblower said.
“And that cow has already given her life to produce milk, I just don’t see how they justify it. I think it’s an appalling practice.”
Pharmaceutical companies use calf fetus blood to grow cells for purposes of vaccine creation as well as making laboratory meat.
Anyone heard of Cultured meat?
Cultured meat, also called clean meat, synthetic meat or in vitro meat, is meat grown from in vitro animals cell culture instead of from slaughtered animals.
The stuff is made from stem cells drawn from the necks of living cows, then dosed with antibiotics and bathed in blood from cattle fetuses.
Hmmm...I thought we were getting away from overly using antibiotics in meat due to the lowered effectiveness over time and the increase in super-bugs .
The in vitro meat is given the heavy antibiotics to keep the cells alive and grow on the serum from the blood of unborn cows gathered from slaughterhouses .
https://slate.com/technology/2017/07/the-gruesome-truth-about-lab-grown-meat.html?fbclid=IwAR3LI5-D3AQ40DfzWMw_ZANbBZVuYt-9oqq9mECFDnToTHkhvQqyEKDE7X8
Netherlands-based tissue engineer Mark Post served up a patty of pure cow muscle, reared from stem cells in a dish. Ruetzler, one of the two people who were allowed to sample it, declared the synthetic burger crunchy and hot, and a bit like cake. Well duh...no fat cells whatsoever will have that effect...Also for it to be recognizable as meat, it also had to be colored, as its out-of-the-tube state is yellowish-white. (Yum!)
Why in the world are they doing/spending so much just to make hamburger, of all things?
Hardly the most healthful choice, if part of the point is to discover something that lots of people round the world are supposed to enjoy and to keep coming back to for more.
Being kind to animals and land now dedicated to grazing, being kind to the atmosphere, are all terrific and super-high-priority goals; but what about being kind to human beings, health-wise?
I may have watched too many movies, but this has a Soylent Green approach to me.
The fact that conglomerates Google and Amazon including {Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, Cargill ,Richard Branson}
http://fortune.com/2017/08/23/bill-gates-richard-branson-invest-meat/ started testing their products in Australia already is scary. It also explains who is paying congress men and women to push their agenda (green new deal) ...
I always follow the money to see what/who is actually behind the curtain.
Our cancer rate has already spiked due to all of our fake food, I just have to wonder how much worse it could get, and is anyone going to take notice? I don't think our bodies were designed to process all this frankenfood for nourishment.
Have you ever heard of BiteLab ? See the you tube video above:
A company called Bitelabs claims they're going to create meat, which will be "grown" using tissue samples from celebrities.
I don't know whether to laugh or scream.
Someone on line actually emailed BiteLabs.
Instead of a winking reply, he got a series of lengthy, sincere responses that had obviously been written by someone who'd internalized Silicon Valley's vernacular, but didn't overtly appear to be mocking it. They were signed only 'Kevin from BiteLabs."
Kevin says there are five employees who "are working full time on this" and that while there is no product ready for market, they are "100 percent serious in prompting widespread discussion about bioethics, lab-grown meats, and celebrity culture—this is very important to us. Making celebrity meat a reality from there will all depend on our ability to build a user-base."
But he did insist that there was a product on the drawing board.
"The product is indeed salami," Kevin says. "Each salami will have roughly 30% celebrity meat and 40% lab-grown animal meats (we're currently looking into ostrich and venison but it pork and beef are more popular in our early research). The rest will consist of fats and spices. This break-down comes from consultation with expert food designers and chefs." If BiteLabs' Tumblr is to be believed, it will look something like this:
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| Actual picture from bite labs tumbler account |
Kevin says the project was indeed inspired by Google: "Our process is very similar to existing methodologies used to make the Google Burger, just tailored to human muscle instead of cow."
Kevin refused to disclose any of the names of the people involved in the project, including the "bio-engineers and food designers," saying they "requested to remain anonymous due to the controversial nature of the product."
In 1931, Winston Churchill predicted a future in which all the world’s meat would be grown in labs.
We could always switch to eating insects to get our proteins with less environmental impact and ethical problems, and with less technological challenges than synthetic meat:...Hmmmm...who is on board??
Who will be a major steakholder?
I could skirt around eating real steak. Flank it, if you will.
In conclusion... Can a carnivore driving a Prius contribute more to global warming than a vegan in a Hummer?
