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March 15, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Artificial Meat WARNING: Here’s what you’re not being told about lab-grown meat
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In the vegan utopia, meat comes from plants.
It's kind of one of the big dreams of the vegan community and many progressives and many environmentalists to say, well, what if we can have an artificial meat that's made from plants?
And then we don't have to kill cows and we don't have to have the methane production from the cows and the environmental impacts of cows and so on.
Well, I'm here to tell you there's a dirty little secret about artificial meat that no one's talking about, but I'm going to reveal it right here.
Would you eat meat or seafood created in a lab?
It was five years in the making, and tonight a team of scientists has unveiled what could be the future of our food, a hamburger grown from the stem cells of cattle.
So the idea is you poke a cow in the butt, you get a small sliver of, this is a muscle cell.
Unfortunately, because it doesn't look appetizing, probably doesn't taste appetizing, they'd use chemicals to make it seem like something you'd want to eat.
But at the moment, this looks like tiny little worms.
And it doesn't smell very appetizing either.
Oh, for sure.
Well, there'd be a serious market for it, for sure.
If they could get it cost-effective.
because last time I saw it was like a quarter million bucks for a cheeseburger.
It sounds good at first.
Grow meat using plants and then you don't have the environmental impacts of meat and you don't have the suffering of cows and chickens and hogs and so on.
But here's what they're not telling you.
I've been following the artificial meat companies.
Remember, I'm a food scientist.
I'm the author of Food Forensics.
I run a laboratory, CWC Labs.
We're an internationally accredited forensic food laboratory, one of the best in the world.
We run mass spec instrumentation, heavy metals analysis, molecular analysis for pesticides, and so on.
What I'm seeing with these artificial meat companies is that they're all turning to various forms of excitotoxins, MSG, monosodium glutamate.
They're using different forms of this such as yeast extract or autolyzed proteins or tarula yeast or derivatives of those products in order to create the savory taste that you normally get from a meat product.
So they're taking plant products Typically soy from genetically modified soy and then they're putting in these chemical taste enhancers to make it kind of taste a little bit like meat and then they're using artificial colors and texturizers and so on to make a patty that might look like a beef burger patty but in effect it's a chemical cocktail of GMOs and MSG and excitotoxins.
So people who think that they're going to be saving the planet by eating plant-based meat or artificial meat are actually being tricked.
What they're going to end up doing instead is supporting GMO agriculture companies that poison the world with genetic pollution.
And they poison the world with herbicides like glyphosate or Roundup or various pesticides.
They have seed pollution.
They have intellectual property pollution.
They're bullies who sue other farmers when their products pollute those farmers' fields.
And these are some of the worst actors in the realm of agriculture and science.
And they're the ones that are behind the artificial meat push because they want to feed you more of their products and they realize that not everybody wants to eat soy protein if it's GMO. Not everybody wants to eat genetically modified corn.
And so, because the biotech industry typically, they don't produce meat products as much as they produce seeds and poisons, they want to get people to stop eating meat, which is actually a natural food source that goes back through thousands of generations of humanity, and instead they want people to eat these artificial food sources, the fake chemicals, the fake burger meat substitute made out of GMO soy and so on.
So this is a classic case of vegans being tricked into doing the opposite of what they think they stand for.
We've seen this also with vegan cheese products.
If you go to the grocery store and look at vegan cheese, you'll find that almost all of it is made with milk protein, casein.
Literally, just go to the grocery store, find your favorite vegan cheese product, And, you know, they're advertised as vegan cheese made from plants and everything.
You look at the ingredients and guess what?
It's casein from cow's milk.
So it's not vegan cheese.
It's a scam.
You've been scammed.
That's what's happening right now with the artificial meat push.
You think you're avoiding cows and ranches and the cow methane pollution of the atmosphere and so on, but what you're actually doing is now supporting a different kind of pollution, a far more insidious pollution, which is genetic pollution of GMOs.
In truth, it's actually more natural and more friendly to the environment to eat real beef rather than artificial chemicals that come from GMOs and are sold to you by dishonest, deceptive, anti-science, science-suppressing corporations.
And in fact, many ranches operate on land that could not be used for farming soy or corn or other foods.
I mean, you look at ranch land in places like, let's say, Wyoming or Nevada or New Mexico or Arizona.
Many of these lands are Have very poor soils.
They can support cattle because cattle can forage on their own.
And cattle can convert sparse food areas with very little water and very poor soil conditions into calories in terms of food, in terms of meat.
Whereas you can't farm that area because there's no available irrigation in the quantities of water that you would need to support food growing in those regions.
Now, I'm not in any way supporting the CAFOs or the confined animal factories that are very cruel.
And I want to be on the record about that.
That's a cruel operation.
A lot of that goes on in Greeley, Colorado and places like that.
I do not support that.
I support free-range chicken and free-range cattle and free-range Where at least the creatures have some semblance of a real life out in the wild.
And I raise chickens.
I don't harvest my chickens for meat.
I harvest their eggs.
So I raise chickens, but I don't kill my chickens for meat production.
That's not something that I could really do.
That's not who I am, you know.
But I do consume meat products from free-range cattle.
And if we get into the question of what is the ethical consideration of slaughtering a cow versus, let's say, harvesting plants, You have to look at the entire equation, because to grow the soy that is producing the artificial meat products, you have all of these pesticides and herbicides and chemical inputs that are being flushed downstream and are devastating marine life and devastating the amphibians and the ecosystems of rivers and streams and even oceans.
And I'm actively thinking about these issues, and I'm open to new information on this, but I've done the math, I've looked at the issues.
Just because something comes from plants doesn't mean it has no ecological cost.
Frankly, a cow that's out free-ranging and feeding herself most of the time is getting a far cleaner diet than you would get from eating a soy product or a GMO corn product or a pesticide-laden agricultural product that's typically used to make these foods.
And one of the meat substitute companies brags about using GMOs.
I think it's called Soylent.
And they brag about being pro-GMO and having all these chemicals and GMOs in their products.
They think that's great!
You know, humans have been eating cows and animals for as long as we've been on this planet.
So there is a level of natural biocompatibility with the human diet.
Humans have not been consuming GMOs or pesticides or herbicides for very long at all, just a few generations.
And because of that, we're seeing explosions in the rates of cancer and Alzheimer's and dementia and diabetes and heart disease, kidney disorders and all of these other things, infertility.
Those diseases did not exist when we were living on free-range animal meat and eating from our own gardens and not consuming all of these chemically contaminated foods that are now being used to make, quote, artificial meat.
So, would I be supportive of artificial meat if it were made without all of these chemicals?
Perhaps, but I haven't seen anything like that.
I haven't seen any company that's dedicated to clean food that wants to create artificial meat in a clean and green way.
So far, all I've seen is companies using the labels of green and the sort of hiding behind the curtain of renewability and sustainability when they're actually churning out what I would consider to be very toxic products that pollute the environment.
And that extract a far more devastating cost to human health than just eating regular old cow meat, frankly.
And you know, there's nothing wrong with bone broth.
There's nothing wrong with some saturated animal fat from time to time.
It can be part of a very, very healthy diet.
The problem with meat that you hear about in the scientific literature or in the mainstream media is really not a problem with meat.
It's a problem with the sodium nitrite that's added to processed meats.
If you really look at the science and you see links between meat and cancer, it's processed meat.
Not fresh meat.
In fact, fresh meat, when properly prepared and when used in a balanced way in a diverse human diet that also includes plant elements, can be very, very healthy, especially if you live in a colder climate.
You need some amount of meat, or if you're very, very physically active, like I am living on a ranch, I need a certain amount of meat in my diet to be able to function and get things done.
I can't live on celery juice.
You know, I've tried that.
I was a vegan for some period of time.
I was a vegetarian.
I've done that.
I know exactly what it's like.
And the only time I was able to do that was when I wasn't being physically active or even mentally productive.
Yeah, if you want to be a hippie and just chill out somewhere and, you know, smoke weed and drink celery juice all day and, you know, parsley and pineapples, you can pull that off for a while.
But if you try to go to work and pick up a rake, you know, and do some actual work outside and deal with animals, you know, I take care of goats and donkeys and chickens, you're gonna need some calories.
You're going to need some fat, frankly.
You're going to need a combination of healthy fats.
I mean, I do chia seeds and flax seeds and fish oils and so on, but I also eat some animal fat on purpose because it's that combination that the body needs.
And that's why I believe I have healthy skin and healthy nails and healthy neurology.
You ever notice that a lot of vegans, they're having neurological problems and they have chapped lips all the time.
They're not getting enough oils and they're vitamin B12 deficient.
I'm not saying that vegetarianism can't be done successfully.
It can, but it's complex.
And most people who want to be vegan for popularity reasons or social pressure reasons, they don't have the technical knowledge to pull it off successfully.
So we have to think about all of these things in context and not just leap to one side of this equation and say, well, all meat is bad.
That's actually not the case.
It's not even a science-based position.
It's not even a rational position.
All meat is not bad.
Processed meat is bad, but not even because of the meat.
It's because of the chemicals that go into it.
Factory farmed meat is bad for ethical reasons, moral reasons.
Certain types of meat operations, like if you're feeding your cows all kinds of GMOs and all kinds of chemicals, or dairy operations that are basically prisons for cows and chemically induced milk production, yeah, that's evil.
That's bad.
But that's not everything.
I mean, you can get meat at a farmer's market from a free-range cattle operation that's really clean and even better than organic if you just look for it.
You can get fresh raw milk in some places.
And even in America, there are places where you won't be arrested trying to get fresh raw milk.
Navigating this issue requires being intelligent and informed.
And what I find is that most people talking about this issue are not informed.
They may be intelligent, but they're not informed.
And they don't understand real nutrition and why you need such a diversity of different nutrients and even different lipids in your diet.
You need a little bit of saturated animal fat if you want to have healthy joints and healthy neurology.
What do you think your brain is made of?
It's made of fat.
And some of these fats need to come from an animal source just for diversity.
I mean, think about when you're a baby.
We know that nursing is healthy, right?
You're nursing.
You're drinking breast milk from your mother.
That is animal fat, by the way.
That's animal fat.
I mean, human fat, but in a general classification, it's animal fat.
Your mother's breast milk is saturated fat because it's made by a mammal, your mom.
Just like a cow is a mammal making saturated fat and making cow's milk, when you're drinking breast milk, you are consuming healthy fats that help keep you alive.
That's why breast milk is so good for you.
The children that grow up on infant formula, they have disease problems and asthma problems and allergies, and they don't have good brain development as much as breastfed babies.
Why is that?
It's because the infant formula is plant-based food and chemicals, whereas breast milk is, in essence, quote, animal fat, you know, from your mom.
It's healthier for you.
You know, it's time we get past the politically correct language in all of this and actually got down to the real science.
You need some saturated fat.
You need it from the day you're born.
That's why you breastfeed.
That's why breastfed babies do better.
So if you're going to go into artificial meat, you might want to augment it with, you know, barbecue sandwich every once in a while.
Otherwise, you're going to have some kind of deficiency and it will affect you.
And you will not be as healthy as you could be.
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