Posted on 10/24/2025 6:00:53 AM PDT by Red Badger
You can’t control happy people. So they keep you tired, anxious, and hungry.
Fake meat, fake joy, fake freedom.
==========================================================
Bill Gates didn’t build a better burger. He built a better leash.
BRIEFING
Jett here. Turns out Bill Gates’ fake beef doesn’t just taste like cardboard and misery, it’s actually making you depressed. Let’s get into it.
A new study out of the U.K. just found that plant-based “meat” products, like the kind Gates has been pumping billions into, are linked to higher rates of depression. And no, not just some mild sadness. We’re talking serious neurological fallout from the ultra-processed sludge they’ve been selling as “climate-friendly food.”
As you know, none of this was ever about saving the planet. It’s all about conditioning people to trade pleasure for compliance. The Marxist way. Trade real food, real happiness, and real independence for a lab-grown lie that keeps you weak, miserable, and grateful for your next government-approved ration.
And hey, bonus… because when you’re depressed, you’re easier to manage. You don’t rebel against your master. You recycle. You hashtag. You obey.
The “green revolution” isn’t feeding humanity, guys. It’s sedating it.
This new peer-reviewed study from the University of Surrey found that people who regularly eat fake “meat” are 42 percent more likely to experience depression. Sure, part of it could be because they miss steak, but it’s mostly because their brains are literally inflamed by the garbage in these lab-grown products.
And trust me, Bill Gates won’t put this part in his next TED Talk. Bill is on a billion-dollar meatless crusade to take complete ownership of your food, your choices, and now, apparently, your mood.
SOURCE
A major new study has found that Bill Gates–backed fake “meat” products are linked to a sharp rise in depression, raising fresh concerns about the billionaire’s global campaign to replace real food with synthetic “alternatives.”
The study confirmed that hyperprocessed fake “meats” caused dangerous levels of inflammation in the brain, leading to severe neurological disorders that can trigger suicidal feelings.
As plant-based diets have gained traction, Gates and his network of globalist “green” investors have poured billions into ultraprocessed lab-grown “meat,” insect-based proteins, and genetically engineered fake “beef” and “chicken,” marketing them as sustainable solutions to “save the planet” from “climate change.”
But new research suggests these products may be doing serious harm to both mental and physical health, all while advancing Gates’s long-term agenda to centralize control over the global food system.
Using data from the UK Biobank cohort, scientists compared health markers among vegetarians who regularly ate plant-based meat alternatives (PBMAs) with those who didn’t.
The study, led by Professor Hana F. Navratilova, was conducted by a team of leading bioscientists at the University of Surrey in the UK.
Their paper was published in the scientific journal Food Frontiers.
The findings were alarming:
Those who consumed PBMAs faced a staggering 42% higher risk of depression.
DEBRIEFING
The global elite learned a long time ago that real control doesn’t come from force… it comes from fatigue. Make people tired, sick, and hopeless, and they’ll pretty much do whatever you want.
Fake meat is a left-wing “virtue habit.” It’s all about teaching you to accept less and smile through the pain. The “future of food” isn’t innovation and health-based, guys. It’s industrial depression.
And who better to lead the charge than the man who already convinced the world to trust a shitty software salesman with global health policy? Bill Gates is the perfect frontman for a glitchy movement that runs on fear… fear of climate collapse, of red meat, of independence itself, and of doing anything without Big Government’s approval.
But there’s one thing these billionaires never seem to understand: misery doesn’t make people easier to control forever. Eventually, it makes them hungry for truth, freedom, and a real cheeseburger.
NOW YOU KNOW
If it sounds like a conspiracy, good. It’s one you can find in the grocery aisle.
"....ultra-processed sludge" and especially, "there's one thing these billionaires never seem to understand: misery doesn't make people easier to control forever. Eventually, it makes them hungry for truth, freedom, and a real cheeseburger."
Freedom is quite tasty. More around this world should have it in their diets. Delicious, actually.
Seem to remember part of the French Revolution was about food....................
The cake will be ersatz too.
Yup, no fake food for me or my family.
hogwash “study” ... how about a fake meat study with a control arm of folks whose diets consists of typical fast food and junk food, say, who eat McDonald’s crap food several times a week, eat bags of Doritos and drink liters of soda pop daily ...
and no mention of the “new” ingredient that supposedly causes brain “inflammation” and depression ...
I'm suspicious of this conclusion. People who eat PBMAs do so to save money, thus indicating that at least a fraction are financially distressed which might also skew these conclusions that the "meat" caused the problem. It may be true, but such psychological studies are always fraught with the difficulty of isolating variables in human behavior.
I missed the secret ingredient twice ... please clarify for me.
“Fake Meat is People.”
New from the Soylent corporation.
It’s a wonder Bill doesn’t put his meat allergy poison in it
If you actually remember, then you're older than me! Arrgh! :)
This thread now inspires by its fine example the change in tonight's menu. Grilling steaks!
“Fake Meat is People.”
New from the Soylent corporation.
Ya you’ll never know who or what’s in those vats
Yeah, where is the “new ingredient” mentioned in the article? It’s not, so another clickbait article. The fake beyond meat crap sucks and is harmful for sure but these fake clickbait articles don’t help get out the truth when the headline is misleading.
That’s right, the key words being PART OF.
The article and study referenced do not use "secret." But the notion is that Plant-Based Meat Alternatives are less about physioogical issues, as emotional and mental issues.
"...while this study found no evidence of health risks associated with PBMA consumption, the increased risk of depression is concerning. Elevated CRP levels [ C-reactive protein ] in the PBMA consumer group suggest a potential increase in inflammatory status. Additionally, lower apolipoprotein A levels in this group, which are linked to reduced HDL, also raise some concerns. As always, the need to consider potential long-term effects when incorporating processed foods into our diet is essential and can be investigated in major epidemiological studies such as the UK Biobank. To validate our findings, additional longitudinal and experimental studies, as well as research in diverse populations outside the UK, are necessary."The article is interesting, for some. Probably a bit academic for others. My general take is that I don't care for marketing, messaging, nudging and the like, and especially from the likes of the Gates type folk.Source: Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Intake and Its Association With Health Status Among Vegetarians of the UK Biobank Volunteer Population by Hana F. Navratilova, Anthony D. Whetton, Nophar Geifman, 16 December 2024.
I suspect this is a case of reverse causality or "confounding." Researchers see cause and effect of eating fake meat >>> higher rates of depression.
Rather, I suspect vegetarians, particularly more radical ones who would seek out "fake meat" alternatives, have more mental-health issues to start with.
PBMAs are generally more expensive than traditional meat products (2x beef, 4x chicken and 3x pork) so their consumers aren’t doing it to save money. If they are, they may be depressed because they are bad at math. More likely they have other anxieties and issues that they medicate through eating PBMA. I’d be depressed, too, if I had to eat PBMA to keep the polar bears from dying.
To be liberal is to be depressed, angry and suicidal......................all at once.............
At what point in the article does the author tell us what is the “new ingredient” that has been “uncovered” in fake meat?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.