‘We Could Eat Malignant Chicken Tumors by the Bucket Load’ – Lab Grown Meat’s Impending CANCER Problem.

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”.

I asked the mod to remove it so I’ll redact the profanity....

Yeah, about time for me to get a little drink of water.

Figure this stuff is safe to drink? Huh? Actually I don’t care if it’s safe or not, I drink it anyway. You know why? Cause I’m an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. That’s right, I’m a loyal American and I’m not happy unless I’ve let government and industry poison me a little bit every day. Let me have a few hundred thousand carcinogens here. Ahh, a little cancer never hurt anybody.

Everybody needs a little cancer I think. It’s good for you. Keeps you on you’re toes. Besides, I ain’t afraid of cancer...I had broccoli for lunch. Broccoli kills cancer. A lot of people don’t know that, it’s not out yet. It’s true. You find out you got some cancer...(click) get yourself a bowl of broccoli. That’ll wipe it right out in a day or two. Cauliflower too. Cauliflower kills the really big cancers. The ones you can see through clothing from across the street. Broccoli kills the little ones. The ones that are slowly eating your way from inside...while your goofy, half- educated doctor keeps telling you, “your doing fine Jim.” In fact bring your doctor a bowl of broccoli. He’s probably got cancer too. Probably picked it up from you. They don’t know what they’re doing, it’s all guesswork in a white coat.

Here, let me have a few more sips of industrial waste. Ahh, maybe...maybe I can turn them cancers against one another.

That’s what you gotta hope for you know, that you get more than one cancer so they eat each other up instead of you. In fact, the way I look at it, the more cancer you got, the healthier you are.

I don’t see it that way

Me neither. However if they want to create something to destroy us they will and there is nothing we can do to stop them.

Remember when MRI's were called NMRI's.the nuclear part of the description scared the bejesus out of people. Sadly it also prevents nuclear radiation of foods which could allow us to store foods at room temperature.

The inherent power to do good in technology always presents an equal or greater power to do evil, just the way it is.

Only Jesus can prevent us from destroying ourselves.

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