Posted on 06/28/2023 5:53:17 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
Lab-grown meat, touted as the “cruelty-free” food of the future by everyone from the World Economic Forum to Hollywood mega-celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio, may have a fatal problem, according to a new Bloomberg story. The problem is that the materials used to make the product – “immortalized cell lines” – replicate forever, just like cancer. Which means, in effect, that they are cancer. Although these cell lines are widely used in scientific research, they’ve never been used to produce food before.
“Immortalized cells are a staple of medical research, but they are, technically speaking, precancerous and can be, in some cases, fully cancerous… [but d]on’t worry: Prominent cancer researchers tell Bloomberg Businessweek that because the cells aren’t human, it’s essentially impossible for people who eat them to get cancer from them, or for the precancerous or cancerous cells to replicate inside people at all.” – Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Industry types are “confident” that eating such products poses no risk – although there isn’t any hard data – but it’s not difficult to see, even if the products are “proven” safe, how people might be put off by the thought they’re eating a glorified tumor. All the evidence suggests that the most prominent producers of these new products – including the “Big Three” startups, Believer Meat, Eat Just and Upside Foods – are doing their best to avoid confronting the issue in public. But whether they’ll be able to keep do so after this latest blast of high-profile negative publicity, remains to be seen. The story comes at a time of growing difficulty for new alternatives to traditional animal products, especially so-called “plant-based meats”.
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Who is “we”......?
Immortalized cell lines don’t mean they can’t die. They can, easily if not grown under lab conditions with the proper nutrients. In any case are people eating these disgusting plant burgers RAW? Cooking should kill any living cells in these things, even IF any were alive before cooking, which I doubt.
Well, that, and it makes 60x the amount of CO2 to produce it than our standard beef product.
Headed towards Soylent Green. Checks all of the liberal boxes. Better if they start with all the unborn children. And then create a diety for them. Oh, I forgot. That was done 2700 years ago.
A 5 year old could come up with better names. If they wanted to do good deeds, they could start by growing Puddin' Head a brain.
Soylent Green.
Brings a whole new meaning to, “what’s for dinner.”
Amen it ain’t chicken it’s chicken spam.
How much lab worker is in the meat ? LOL How do you really know what meat it is anyway
Bill Gates must be shut down with all of his lab meat , mosquitoes , seed the atmosphere is crap etc etc etc
“ Remember when liberals used to whine about “Frankenfoods”?”
Good point, nice reminder.
They are so insane.
He‘s told us since the 80’s he needed to reduce the world’s population…
I bet Leonardo DiCrapio won’t be eating it.
Oh, yeah—serve me up a plate of cancerous chicken cells!
Instead, how about lab-grown plants for the vego nuts, and save actual plants from being slaughtered?
Ha ha. One take of his I don’t quite agree with.
Look on the bright side. Only have to eat it once as it will keep growing in your stomach.
it won’t take very long for the public to realize that “immortalized cell lines” = cancer ... really, so-called lab-grown “meat” is DOA ...
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