From the WTF!!!!! files – FDA approves "chicken" grown in a lab in just two weeks – another win for Bill Gates – I wonder how much he paid the FDA - probably nothing, right?
From here:
“Chicken grown from animal cells, not from slaughtered birds, can now be sold in the U.S. The Agriculture Department issued approvals Wednesday to California firms Upside Foods and Good Meat to sell the products, known as “lab-grown” or “cultivated” meat.”
“A manufacturing company called Joinn Biologics, which works with Good Meat, was also cleared to make the products.”
The US is not the first country in the world to approve this. Singapore approved a process in 2020.
So is this the choice/?
A possibly well-reared chicken with two feet or lab grown chicken with none?
“Instead of all of that land and all of that water that's used to feed all of these animals that are slaughtered, we can do it in a different way," said Josh Tetrick, co-founder and chief executive of Eat Just, which operates Good Meat.”
I wonder if lab grown chickens can ever experience a moment’s “chicken joy”. Does the “meat” have a brain or does it just grow like a plant. I doubt that any eggs will be produced – so its not really chicken is it?
“Cultivated meat is grown in steel tanks, using cells that come from a living animal, a fertilized egg or a special bank of stored cells. In Upside's case, it comes out in large sheets that are then formed into shapes like chicken cutlets and sausages. Good Meat, which already sells cultivated meat in Singapore, the first country to allow it, turns masses of chicken cells into cutlets, nuggets, shredded meat and satays.”
Ah hah, so not a Sunday Roast that can be carved! Well, unless you stack the pieces up and pretend I guess.
Some people have taken somewhat of a dim view:
“Lab Grown meat is a danger to both our food system and our economy. The energy required for production is outrageous - it can only survive on government subsidies. It’s full of additives and doesn’t mimic the healthful qualities of meat at all. Scary stuff”
Hmm. Lots of tax payer money to generate huge (green?) power bills otherwise it can’t pay its way? Where have we seen that before. Oh yes, everywhere a “climate emergency” agenda is rolled out. If you have a subscription or don’t mind grabbing a one month free trial, check this out:
The electric car ‘revolution’ is a disaster before it’s begun (telegraph.co.uk)
Oh, and the Bill Gates link:
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture gave the green light for the controversial product, which is backed by Bill Gates, earlier this week.”
Well, maybe it’s a poison in an egg-cup or we are running around like headless chickens if we are the slightest bit concerned.
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You see, the problem is that when I tell people not to eat that crap from McDonald's, they eat it anyway because they like the taste of it. They tell me, but we don't have money for healthy food. I ask them: do you have money for health care in the near future because of eating this?
The biggest problem is that people are actually consuming it - and yes, we should say enough, but how do we say it when people just go ahead and eat the crap?
Even more sick is that the FDA doesn't believe this crap should be labelled correctly. They're going to sell it without disclosing what it is, as usual.