Posted on 09/29/2017 12:45:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Branson along with Bill Gates, Cargill, and Kimball Musk, backed the Memphis Meats clean-meat startup in its $17 million Series A round, which went on to raise in excess of $22 million. Memphis Meats will join a cadre of sustainable food businesses such as the three Israeli companies Meat the Future, Future Meat Technologies, and SuperMeat which will supply food to China as part of a $300 million deal. Branson, who gave up meat in 2014, appears to be investing in alignment with his beliefs and predictions about the future, all while trying to act against the deforestation caused by agribusiness; a known contributing factor to climate change.
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Its also been asserted that lab-grown meat is healthier than the real thing: its free of antibiotics, dangerous bacteria, and growth-promoting hormones. In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a branch of the World Health Organization, classified red meats as probably carcinogenic to humans and processed meats as carcinogenic to humans. The director of the IARC also supported limited intake of meat as a public health matter. Although researchers arent certain which elements of animal meat are potentially carcinogenic, they suspect that heme iron might be to blame something that lab-grown meat can be made without. Lab-grown meat can also be created free or nearly free of saturated fat and therefore cholesterol, another health concern often attributed to meat consumption.
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Fixed it.
Is this going to extend to animals in the wild as well?
Will humans therefore lose all vestige of canine teeth when they are no longer omnivores?
That's never been God's plan, you realize?
Rich, have you enjoyed the Japanese Poop Burger, yet? (I'll wager you have.)
I’ll believe it when I see and taste it. I loves my seafood, cow, and pig. Bacon!!
In the future, YOU’LL BE FOOD!...................SOYLENT GREEN!.......IT’S PEOPLE!!!!!!!..............
Single payer healthcare will limit your meat eating by penalizing you. And what the heck is "lab grown meat"?
Lefties can stop eating all the meat they want. That should make it cheaper for those of us who do like meat, until they find a way to tax it, like soda....
I can only imagine.
Just tube steak................
Your tofu comment reminded me of the photo of an empty refrigerated grocery cabinet ahead of one of the recent hurricanes. Empty, that is, save for the full amount of tofu still available. Even the vegans know tough times will require nutrient dense protein and fat.
It’s all about the agenda and pushing it and has little to do with truth.
Hey RB, the Obamas ain’t giving up wagyu beef and chicken wings.
Lobsters aren’t safe either.
Re: Its also been asserted that lab-grown meat is healthier than the real thing: its free of antibiotics, dangerous bacteria, and growth-promoting hormones.
I have a hard time believing that the growers of meat will refrain from using antibiotics and growth-promoting anything they can get hold of, or that the meat will be grown under scrupulously sterile conditions.
Welcome to Free Republic, by the way.
It is what money does to your brain. Sheer boredom with their lives so they must mess with yours.
"They are running out of places to put all the corpses, so..."
And the attached image purporting to be a factory/shop in China was id'd as a movie set scene from some franchise movie.
Naturally, they threw in "While we do know that the canned meat isn't human flesh, we don't know if it is indeed, beef."
Farms and ranches. Oh, and the wild (I have some venison in the freezer).
Its also been asserted that lab-grown meat is healthier than the real thing...
####!!! My aunt nancy is only 94. My uncle nunzio is only 90!!! they could have lived to a normal age with this meat!!
What, no Tofurkey this Thanksgiving?
Hi, I’ll take a Philly Cheese Steak with lab-grown meat.
Just doesn’t have a ring to it.
Yes, it’s very bizarre to think we live in a day where the people preaching lab-grown meant are fine with chopping up babies.
Very, very bizarre.
Moron has no understanding of life,
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But he has a great understanding of getting his name in the press for the free publicity.
We’re like other animals to liberals when it comes to things like sex, leaving the sick behind etc.
But when it suits their purposes, we’re not like animals.
BTW, i’m sure some animals feel for the injured they leave behind but they’ve just fallen behind humans in the medivac industry.
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