Frightening! Test-tube meat to replace real meat!

[Keyhole]

First test-tube MEATBALL on its way: Startup claims lab grown meat will be on shelves within three years and says raising animals to eat will soon be 'unthinkable'

The firm says technique produces 90 percent less greenhouse emissions
Begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the ability to regenerate
Costs $18,000 to make 1lb ground beef, compared to $4 in US grocery store
Working on plant-based alternative to replace fetal bovine serum

Test-tube meat is getting closer to leaving the lab and being served on our plates.

Memphis Meats, which grows meat from animal cells, says it hopes to have its animal-free products on the market in three to four years - and has unveiled the first lab-grown meatball to the public.

It is one of several firms developed 'test tube meats' that could one day be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to produce than traditional farming.

Memphis Meats, which grows meat from animal cells, will make its debut this week and plans to have its animal-free products on the market in three to four years. To show just how busy they've been in the lab, they unveiled the first meatball grown from beef cells

Memphis Meats, which grows meat from animal cells, will make its debut this week and plans to have its animal-free products on the market in three to four years. To show just how busy they've been in the lab, they unveiled the first meatball grown from beef cells

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HOW DOES MEMPHIS MEATS GROW ITS MEAT?

In order to grow meat in a lab, Memphis Meats begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the ability to regenerate, and 'provides the cells with oxygen and nutrients such as sugars and minerals'.

These cells develop inside bioreactor tanks into skeletal muscle that can be harvested in between nine and 21 days, Mr. Valeti said.

Although Valeti mentions no animals are slaughtered in making the meats, the firm does use fetal bovine serum from unborn calves' blood to initiate the process.

'This is absolutely the future of meat,' said Memphis Meats CEO Uma Valeti.

'We plan to do to the meat industry what the car did to the horse and buggy.

'Cultured meat will completely replace the status quo and make raising animals to eat them simply unthinkable.'

The firm has been growing real meat in small quantities using cells from cows, pigs and chickens, he revealed.

'We love meat. But like most Americans, we don't love the many negative side effects of conventional meat production: environmental degradation, a slew of health risks, and food products that contain antibiotics, fecal matter, pathogens, and other contaminants,' the firm says on its website.

Its first line of products will include hot dogs, sausages, burgers and meatballs, which will all use recipes developed by award-winning chefs.

'Our concept is simple. Instead of farming animals to obtain their meat, why not farm the meat directly? To that end, we're combining decades of experience in both the culinary and scientific fields to farm real meat cells—without the animals—in a process that is healthier, safer, and more sustainable than conventional animal agriculture.'

This week, it revealed its first product - a meatball.

'We watched how the meatball reacted in the pan, we heard the sizzle, we smelled the meat and it was exactly how you would expect a meatball to smell,' Valeti said in the video that unveiled the lab grown meatball.

'This is the first time a meatball has ever been cooked with beef cells that didn't require a cow to be slaughtered.'

Memphis Meats aims to reinvent modern animal agriculture, which the United Nations estimates consumes on-third of the world's grains and about a quarter of all land is used for grazing, reported The Wall Street Journal.

The firm says its cutting-edge technique produces 90 percent less greenhouse emissions, consumes less nutrients and doesn't require antibiotics or other additives used in traditional meat production.

'The meat industry knows their products aren't sustainable,' Valeti told The Wall Street Journal.

'We believe that in 20 years, a majority of meat sold in stores will be cultured.'

While generating one calorie from beef requires 23 calories in feed, Memphis Meats plans to produce a calorie of meat from just three calories in inputs.

Uma Valeti (pictured left). The firm says its technique produces 90% less greenhouse emissions, consumes less nutrients and doesn't require antibiotics or other additives used in meat production. While generating one calorie from beef requires 23 calories in feed, it plans to produce a calorie of meat from just 3 calories in inputs

In order to grow meat in a lab, Memphis Meats begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the ability to regenerate, and 'provides the cells with oxygen and nutrients such as sugars and minerals'.

These cells develop inside bioreactor tanks into skeletal muscle that can be harvested in between nine and 21 days, Mr. Valeti said.

Although Valeti mentions no animals are slaughtered in making the meats, the firm does use fetal bovine serum from unborn calves' blood to initiate the process.

When a pregnant cow is slaughtered, blood is drown from the fetus through its heart.

In order to separate the blood cells from the serum, the blood is sent through a centrifuge and then filtered further.
In order to grow meat in a lab, Memphis Meats begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the ability to regenerate, and 'provides the cells with oxygen and nutrients such as sugars and minerals'. These cells develop inside bioreactor tanks into skeletal muscle that can be harvested in between nine and 21 days

In order to grow meat in a lab, Memphis Meats begins by isolating cow and pig cells that have the ability to regenerate, and 'provides the cells with oxygen and nutrients such as sugars and minerals'. These cells develop inside bioreactor tanks into skeletal muscle that can be harvested in between nine and 21 days

The final product is low in antibodies and high in growth factors.

Fetal bovine serum is the most commonly used animal supplement for cell cultures.

Memphis Meats says they are working on plant-based alternative that will replace the serum in the future.

Link:_http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3428438/First-test-tube-MEATBALL-revealed-Startup-claims-lab-grown-meat-shelves-three-years-says-raising-animals-eat-soon-unthinkable.html

 

[angelburst29]

What I wonder, could lab-grown-meat be considered a GMO and detrimental to human health?

China just signed a $300 million deal with Israel that would allow them to import Israel’s lab-growing meat technologies.

Where’s The Beef? China Signs $300 Million Deal with Israel to Import ‘Lab Meat’ (technologies)
https://sputniknews.com/society/201709161057440550-china-signs-300-million-israel-lab-meat/

There are currently three Israeli food technology firms — SuperMeat, Meat the Future, and Future Meat Technologies — that replace animal-based protein with "clean meat." Lab grown meat is a form of cellular agriculture used to grow meat from animal cells or plant protein, which cuts down on animal slaughter.

Bruce Friedrich, the head of The Good Food Institute, a US nonprofit that promotes plant-based meat, dairy and eggs, said that this deal is a "colossal market opportunity" that "could put [clean] meat onto the radar of Chinese officials who have the capacity to steer billions of dollars into this technology."

Last year, the Chinese government released a new set of dietary guidelines that could reduce the population's consumption of meat by 50 percent.
The Chinese Ministry of Health is also advising its citizens to limit their meat and egg intake to 200 grams daily, instead of the daily 300 grams per day most Chinese people consume, according to onegreenplanet.org.

In addition, according to the International Trade Centre, Chinese meat imports cost the country $10 billion in 2016, meaning that a meat alternatives industry has the potential to really thrive in China.

Lab meat may also help decrease Chinese greenhouse gas emissions. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, livestock production contributes to 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and 2015 data from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research reveals that China released a whopping 10,641,788 kilotons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2015. The implementation of lab meat technology in China may help substantially decrease the country's high greenhouse emissions.

Not everyone in the Land of Milk and Honey eats, well, milk or honey. To that end, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are adding combat rations totally free of animal products as an option for their soldiers who have gone vegan.

Israeli Military Goes Vegan With Animal-Product-Free Combat Rations
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704061052342477-israel-military-vegan-combat-rations/

An estimate 50,000 IDF soldiers will be fed by the vegan rations, which consist of "hummus and tahini, beans in tomato sauce, cocoa spread, halva, green olives, peas and canned fruit," Lieutenant Colonel Donna Steinfield with the IDF's Technology and Logistics Division told Jerusalem Online.

"Our goal is to take care of each soldier's personal needs." Steinfeld also said that a large number of soldiers had requested the program.

Veganism is highly popular in Israel, with 4 percent of the population identifying as vegan – the highest rate of any country in the world. Experts attribute this phenomenon to it being a natural extension of the kosher Jewish dietary code, which already prohibits some meat products, like pork and shellfish. Some prominent Israeli activists have even compared the meat industry to the Holocaust, naturally a sensitive subject in the Jewish state.

The IDF made several allowances to accommodate the large vegan minority in 2014, such as leather-free combat gear. Soldiers were also granted an allowance to buy their own meals rather than the typical food served on base, and vegan options were added to mess hall menus.

But soldiers deployed in the field weren't always in a position to buy food, and they instead ate typical rations minus the animal products. Steinfeld said the new rations are meant to address this problem and ensure that all IDF soldiers, vegan or not, receive proper nutrition.

This means food that contains protein and iron," she said. "Exactly what soldiers in the field need to give them strength."

As Napoleon once famously declared, an army marches on its stomach.

All non-Arabs in Israel are subject to mandatory conscription into the IDF when they turn 18, though approximately 26 percent of 18-year-olds are found exempt for religious, health or other reasons. Compulsory service lasts for thirty-two months for men and two years for women.

 

[Ant22]

What I wonder, could lab-grown-meat be considered a GMO and detrimental to human health?

I am not getting anywhere near this for sure. If there's anything that could convince me that veganism is the healthier option - it will be lab grown meat.

One more thing I wonder about is the discussion from the session quoted below, that eating meat means eating higher consciousness. I doubt eating lab grown meat is very conscious.

(...) Q: (L) Yes. (Burma) So it sounds like they're saying that there's a hidden thing in the whole resurrection or salvation by the blood thing. That agriculture is evil and we could return by going on an animal-based diet?

A: No not exactly. When humankind "fell" into gross matter, a way was needed to return. This way simply is a manifestation of the natural laws. Consciousness must "eat" also. This is a natural function of the life giving nature of the environment in balance. The Earth is the Great Mother who gives her body, literally, in the form of creatures with a certain level of consciousness for the sustenance of her children of the cosmos. This is the original meaning of those sayings.

Q: (L) So, eating flesh also means eating consciousness which accumulates, I'm assuming is what is being implied here, or what feeds our consciousness so that it grows in step with our bodies? Is that close?

A: Close enough.

Q: (Ailen) And when you eat veggies you're basically eating a much lower level of consciousness. (L) Not only that, but in a sense you're rejecting the gift and you're not feeding consciousness. And that means that all eating of meat should be a sacrament.

A: Yes (...)

[quote author=angelburst29]
Veganism is highly popular in Israel, with 4 percent of the population identifying as vegan – the highest rate of any country in the world. Experts attribute this phenomenon to it being a natural extension of the kosher Jewish dietary code, which already prohibits some meat products, like pork and shellfish. Some prominent Israeli activists have even compared the meat industry to the Holocaust, naturally a sensitive subject in the Jewish state.

The IDF made several allowances to accommodate the large vegan minority in 2014, such as leather-free combat gear. Soldiers were also granted an allowance to buy their own meals rather than the typical food served on base, and vegan options were added to mess hall menus. [/quote]

Don't they also have high proportions of clinical psychopaths Israel? Nice combination indeed.

I won't be surprised if the "vegan minority" worldwide at some point becomes just as aggressive as the "choose your own gender bunch". They already managed to impose some of their sick ideas on the general population and I truly hope vegans will not follow their path. Otherwise I may have to prove that the vegan argument "you wouldn't eat it if you had to kill it yourself" wrong and learn to hunt.

[quote author=angelburst29]
Lab meat may also help decrease Chinese greenhouse gas emissions. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, livestock production contributes to 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and 2015 data from the Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research reveals that China released a whopping 10,641,788 kilotons of carbon dioxide emissions in 2015. The implementation of lab meat technology in China may help substantially decrease the country's high greenhouse emissions. [/quote]


The environmental argument is a very popular one in this trend and I won't be surprised if "climate change" fighters get on board with the idea. This article is a bit old, it was published in 2013, but they also mention impact of normal meat production on the environment:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23576143

(...) In a statement, animal welfare campaigners People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) said: "[Lab-grown meat] will spell the end of lorries full of cows and chickens, abattoirs and factory farming. It will reduce carbon emissions, conserve water and make the food supply safer."

Critics of the technology say that eating less meat would be an easier way to tackle predicted food shortages.
The latest United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report on the future of agriculture indicates that most of the predicted growth in demand for meat from China and Brazil has already happened and many Indians are wedded to their largely vegetarian diets for cultural and culinary reasons. (...)

The article Keyhole quoted also uses environmental benefits as an advantage:

[quote author=Keyhole] Memphis Meats aims to reinvent modern animal agriculture, which the United Nations estimates consumes on-third of the world's grains and about a quarter of all land is used for grazing, reported The Wall Street Journal.

The firm says its cutting-edge technique produces 90 percent less greenhouse emissions, consumes less nutrients and doesn't require antibiotics or other additives used in traditional meat production. [/quote]

 

[Palinurus]

More on this subject can be found in this topic: Cultured Beef.

A search on SOTT would also reveal quite a few articles on the subject, published earlier.

 

[whitecoast]

To the extent that we are in an industrial food system, any innovations used will tend to try and cut the costs of energy and resources to produce something, but also the quality. I'm actually pro-anything that can help shut down the factory farms, but I really do hope it turns out to be healthy. It may actually make meat more accessible to lower income groups. Like many others here though, I am by no means going to be a first-adopter. :P

The feedlots and vast amount of grains grown in many parts of the world could perhaps be allowed to revert back to pasture lands, where cows can actually have a good life again.

One more thing I wonder about is the discussion from the session quoted below, that eating meat means eating higher consciousness. I doubt eating lab grown meat is very conscious.

(...) Q: (L) Yes. (Burma) So it sounds like they're saying that there's a hidden thing in the whole resurrection or salvation by the blood thing. That agriculture is evil and we could return by going on an animal-based diet?

A: No not exactly. When humankind "fell" into gross matter, a way was needed to return. This way simply is a manifestation of the natural laws. Consciousness must "eat" also. This is a natural function of the life giving nature of the environment in balance. The Earth is the Great Mother who gives her body, literally, in the form of creatures with a certain level of consciousness for the sustenance of her children of the cosmos. This is the original meaning of those sayings.

Q: (L) So, eating flesh also means eating consciousness which accumulates, I'm assuming is what is being implied here, or what feeds our consciousness so that it grows in step with our bodies? Is that close?

A: Close enough.

Q: (Ailen) And when you eat veggies you're basically eating a much lower level of consciousness. (L) Not only that, but in a sense you're rejecting the gift and you're not feeding consciousness. And that means that all eating of meat should be a sacrament.

A: Yes (...)

Yeah, so on the face of it it seems like the conscious experience of things may help. On the other hand, everything has some degree of consciousness, and how that consciousness manifests physically can be a topic of debate. For example plants are "less conscious" than animals, even though they have the same five senses, can feel pain, and can even hurt for another. What plants do lack are particular types of amino acids and fats that can allow for more sophisticated cellular processing. These types of things can be produced quite naturally in cultured animal tissues, and in fact will do so by necessity. So the energy quality that can make animal cells run would certainly be present in the tissues, which I think would be sufficient for our purposes. I can't think of an organism that would have a more pleasant life than one grown in a test tube with all the available nutrients it could ever want. Compare that to animals that have to experience high stress environments in CAFOs, and the fact that we are energetically feeding on that suffering in a very literal way. So cultured meat is inferior to pasture-centered raising of animals (if only because absence of evidence of harm is not evidence of absence of harm) but superior to what most people tend to consume and call meat.

 

[Zar]

More on this subject can be found in this topic: Cultured Beef.

A search on SOTT would also reveal quite a few articles on the subject, published earlier.

These two threads could me merged.

I'm not that informed in artificial meats but I'm of the mind that these artificial meats are of a lower vibration than the real deal. And as the C's state:

Q: (L) What about all the people who are vegetarians?

A: They are nuclear “toast” since so much of their energy must be expended to raise the vibrations of their food.

And as Niall posted in the other thread listed above

Note who's behind this:

Why are the founders of Microsoft, Google and Paypal investing in artificial meat?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/06/sergey-brin-isnt-the-only-tech-entrepreneur-investing-in-artificial-meat/

This sets my danger radar off.

Yeah, so on the face of it it seems like the conscious experience of things may help. On the other hand, everything has some degree of consciousness, and how that consciousness manifests physically can be a topic of debate. For example plants are "less conscious" than animals, even though they have the same five senses, can feel pain, and can even hurt for another. What plants do lack are particular types of amino acids and fats that can allow for more sophisticated cellular processing. These types of things can be produced quite naturally in cultured animal tissues, and in fact will do so by necessity. So the energy quality that can make animal cells run would certainly be present in the tissues, which I think would be sufficient for our purposes. I can't think of an organism that would have a more pleasant life than one grown in a test tube with all the available nutrients it could ever want. Compare that to animals that have to experience high stress environments in CAFOs, and the fact that we are energetically feeding on that suffering in a very literal way. So cultured meat is inferior to pasture-centered raising of animals (if only because absence of evidence of harm is not evidence of absence of harm) but superior to what most people tend to consume and call meat.

I don't think this type of meat is sufficient for out purposes since we are in the process of raising our vibration, so higher vibrational food should be more appropriate IMO. Wether it's better than CAFO for the average person, I'm honestly not sure.

Are you sure an organism would have a pleasant life grown in a test tube? maybe for a bacteria that can't really tell the difference but for any 2D being... I don't think an animal raised in a test tube would even be able to have a life let alone a pleasant one. Devoid of all perceptions and experience, I would even think their vibrations may be lesser than a plant. Also suffering is necessary for growth, in our universe at least, and that applies for 2D life as well(CAFOs go beyond the necessary suffering for growth though). So trying to eliminate suffering from our food may even lower their vibration, I think. Also we have no idea what has been put into these artificial meats, especially consider the PTB.

Again I'm not too well versed but I don't trust this, and worst come to worst like Ant22 I'll go learn to hunt.

 

[angelburst29]

More on this subject can be found in this topic: Cultured Beef.

A search on SOTT would also reveal quite a few articles on the subject, published earlier.

These two threads could me merged.

I'm not that informed in artificial meats but I'm of the mind that these artificial meats are of a lower vibration than the real deal. And as the C's state:

Q: (L) What about all the people who are vegetarians?

A: They are nuclear “toast” since so much of their energy must be expended to raise the vibrations of their food.

And as Niall posted in the other thread listed above

Note who's behind this:

Why are the founders of Microsoft, Google and Paypal investing in artificial meat?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/06/sergey-brin-isnt-the-only-tech-entrepreneur-investing-in-artificial-meat/

Why are the founders of Microsoft, Google and Paypal investing in artificial meat?

The same founders that are heavily invested in the ‘doomsday seed vault’ on Svalbard, backed by the Rockefeller foundations.

Like Henry Kissinger declared in the 1970’s, ‘If you control the oil you control the country; if you control food, you control the population.’

I guess, another way of looking at it, cows, pigs, chickens, etc. can be genetically modified but can't "be patented"? Bio-engineered artificial meat - can?

In this article, it goes into the many Rockefeller Foundations and it's proxies like the Gates Foundation, Monsanto Corporation, Syngenta Foundation and other Agencies that have over the years, systematically taken over control of agribusiness production, biological eugenics research and methods used in the Rockefeller"s Green Revolution to reduce and control the World's populations. Artificial meat might be the next step in population control, next to GMO seed and modified fruits?

“Doomsday Seed Vault” in the Arctic – Bill Gates, Rockefeller and the GMO giants know something we don’t
http://realfarmacy.com/doomsday-seed-vault-arctic-bill-gates-rockefeller-gmo-giants-know-something-dont/

 

[seek10]

This is another way to make humans zombies. Once they tried with Vegetarianism. Later veganism . Lot of h ealth issues. People seems to be realizing the importance of meat from naturally raised animals. Now this meat from labs. Soon humans will become good only for meat .no intelligence.

 

[Anthony]

This is another way to make humans zombies. Once they tried with Vegetarianism. Later veganism . Lot of h ealth issues. People seems to be realizing the importance of meat from naturally raised animals. Now this meat from labs. Soon humans will become good only for meat .no intelligence.

And it will all be done in the name of health, saving the environment or some other high-sounding ideal.

 

[Ant22]

More on this subject can be found in this topic: Cultured Beef.

A search on SOTT would also reveal quite a few articles on the subject, published earlier.

Thanks for the additional info Palinurus, there Cultured Beef thread has some interesting info in it.

I'm not that informed in artificial meats but I'm of the mind that these artificial meats are of a lower vibration than the real deal. And as the C's state:

Q: (L) What about all the people who are vegetarians?

A: They are nuclear “toast” since so much of their energy must be expended to raise the vibrations of their food.

Yeah, my thoughts precisely. I guess the push to make people become vegetarian hasn't worked, most likely because most of them simply enjoy their burgers. The lab produced meat is could possibly be another way to achieve the desired result. That lab grown meat that was never a part of an actual animal sounds like something that would be closer in vibration to vegetables. An interesting quote from the Vegetarian Myth thread:

(...) if the Cs are correct, the negative aliens like to eat people who are vegetarians which is why they've been pushing vegetarianism on "spiritual seekers" for millennia.

"(...) In 1972 the publication of two independent investigations confirmed this.-1-2They concerned fats. About half our brain and nervous system is composed of complicated, long-chain, fatty acids. These are also used in the walls of our blood vessels. Without them we cannot develop normally. These fatty acids do not occur in plants, although fatty acids in a simpler form do. This is where plant-eating herbivores come in. Over the year, the herbivores convert the simple fatty acids found in grasses and seeds into intermediate, more complicated forms. By eating the herbivores we can convert their stores of these fatty acids into the ones we need." {Sinclair AJ. Long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in mammalian brain. Proc Nutr Soc 1975; 34: 287-91. }

I can't find any information on these amino acids being re-created successfully in laboratory conditions. Can you provide a link to it by any chance?

I would be interested to see how they recreated these amino acids. And since many supplements have different forms and not all of them are equally bioavailable (take B12 and cyanocobalamin vs methylcobalamin for example) I would be interested to find out whether these amino acids have different forms too. If yes, I'd like to see which ones they used.

It may be easier said than done since they did fail to recreate the fat content in the artificial meat:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23576143

Food writer Mr Schonwald said: "The mouthfeel is like meat. I miss the fat, there's a leanness to it, but the general bite feels like a hamburger. "What was consistently different was flavour."

Not to mention that the article also says: "He starts with stem cells extracted from cow muscle tissue. In the laboratory, these are cultured with nutrients and growth-promoting chemicals to help them develop and multiply. " I do wonder what these growth promoting chemicals are - and how healthy they are. Probably as bad as factory farmed meat but I think we all agree that buying organic and grass fed meat is what we should be doing.

Note who's behind this:

Why are the founders of Microsoft, Google and Paypal investing in artificial meat?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/06/sergey-brin-isnt-the-only-tech-entrepreneur-investing-in-artificial-meat/

This sets my danger radar off.

Yeah, mine too. And if this trend does go on I may in fact have a chance to find out whether it is true that humans are capable of persistence hunting. If the lab grown meat hits the stores and I haven't logged into the forum for 5 days or more I'll be in the forest running deer down to exhaustion. ;)

 

[Palinurus]

Today SOTT carries an older (September 05, 2017) dr. Mercola article about lab grown meat:

https://www.sott.net/article/362846-Can-you-really-call-lab-grown-meat-clean

[...]
You need only watch the Memphis Meats video above to get a glimpse of the feel-good vibe the company is going for. The Good Food Institute (GFI), which seeks out entrepreneurs and scientists to form plant-based and lab-grown meat companies, also put out notice that the preferred term for the latter is "clean meat" - not cultured meat and certainly not lab-grown either. According to GFI:7

"When we talk about the fact that this meat is 'clean,' our conversations immediately focus on the aspects of this technology that are the
most relevant and beneficial for consumers: namely, that this meat is cleaner than the meat from slaughtered animals, both in terms of
basic sanitation and environmental friendliness ... First impressions are critical. We don't want to start a discussion by having to
disabuse people of negative associations and inaccurate assumptions."

But is it really accurate to call this new product "clean meat?" It would seem that this term already belongs to grass fed farmers who are raising animals on pasture, without reliance on chemicals or genetically engineered (GE) feed, in accordance with the laws of nature. In reality, the startup companies are using the term clean meat to refer to both meat produced without animal slaughter and plant-based meat alternatives.

What's clear is that their makers want these science experiments to appear like real meat, only better. It's promoted as a win-win for everyone, nonhuman animals included, but do you know who the biggest winners will be? The billionaire investors slated to get even richer if their fully patented meat products take off. No one can patent a natural cow, chicken or duck, but with the advent of lab-grown meat, the resulting beef, chicken and duck is very much patentable - and fully controlled by its makers.

As we've seen in the past with Monsanto's patenting of GE seeds, putting the food supply in the hands of a private corporation is rarely a good idea. (The patenting of seeds and the subsequent restrictions on seed have led to what is essentially a takeover of the farming industry by chemical companies.) There's more, even, than money at stake as, if you control the food supply, you essentially control the world.
[...]

 

[angelburst29]

After reading the information between both threads, lab produced Culture Beef (in my opinion) is just another "artificial" concoction? Like the gobby-gok they call margarine, with food flavoring enhancers and artificial coloring, that's a substitute for real dairy butter.

Thinking out of the box, if it's true - Human's were "seeded" here from other parts of the galaxy and expected to thrive in this environment, natural means were provided.

Moses might have called "up to God" ... but it wasn't for a triple decker Cultured Beef seasoned patty with extra tomato, lettuce and mayo? Granted, he might have grunted "why have you forsaken me" when he didn't get an answer but such is life.

For example, I don't see any "lab cultured" foods mentioned here? We live on a living planet, not a spaceship, where artificial foods might be a substitute?

Foods of the Bible
Bible Foods with Scripture References
https://www.thoughtco.com/foods-of-the-bible-700172