March 23, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| Alright, and we're back, and you know, there's a team out there, a team of scientists who have figured out how to grow meat in a lab, and they're Dutch. | |
| Somehow that's not surprising. | |
| I love the Dutch people, by the way. | |
| They're pretty clever, so they're figuring out how to grow meat in a lab, and they have created the world's first burger. | |
| Which costs, by the way, 215,000 pounds to make. | |
| Pounds being the currency, not the weight. | |
| This isn't like the massive burger to feed your town. | |
| No, this is a very expensive burger because they had to grow it using some kind of creepy matrix type of setup, I guess, where they have like cow embryos or stem cells, I think, is what they do. | |
| And they're feeding it some kind of nutrient solution. | |
| I think there was a scene like that in the movie called The Island with Ewan McGregor, right? | |
| Where he was running the feed lines to keep the clones fed so that the paying customers that lived in the real world could purchase replacement organs after their own organs began to fail from chemical abuse of recreational drugs, whatever. | |
| Yeah, that's an interesting movie. | |
| Check out The Island if you want a... | |
| Horrifyingly accurate picture of probably where modern medicine is going. | |
| Anyway, so they're growing this lab burger, and they're saying that they're going to have this available on the market in five years, right? | |
| So Professor Mark Post at his laboratory in Maastricht University in the Netherlands, that's how it's spelled, Maastricht University, He says that they're going to have this available on the market in five years and it would be an exclusive product to begin with but would be on supermarket shelves once demand had been established and the price comes down. | |
| The burger is made from stem cells, reports the BBC, the templates from which specialized tissue such as nerve or skin cells develop. | |
| Yeah, we know what stem cells are. | |
| All right, so... | |
| So here's the pitch on this, right? | |
| So the pitch is that growing beef the old-fashioned way, which is ranching, is, they say, it takes too much water, and it takes too much land, and it takes too much energy. | |
| And aside from all that, the cows are farting and emitting greenhouse gases, right? | |
| This is the problem. | |
| Those damn cow farts... | |
| Are destroying our planet. | |
| So every time you order a burger from McDonald's... | |
| Well, wait a minute. | |
| McDonald's burgers I don't think really has any actual beef. | |
| So when you order an actual hamburger made from beef, you are in essence a... | |
| With every bite, you're unleashing cow farts indirectly. | |
| This is the blame game that is now being... | |
| You fart muncher, you! | |
| How dare you munch farts and produce greenhouse gases as you're enjoying a grilled cheeseburger, double patty barbecue, whatever. | |
| So they're saying... | |
| They can grow this lab meat and they can use 55% less energy. | |
| Well, wait a minute. | |
| Hold on. | |
| 45% less energy and it will produce, they say, 96% fewer greenhouse gas emissions and 99% less land. | |
| Okay, so that's part of it. | |
| They're saying there's an environmental reason to grow meat in the lab. | |
| But there's, of course, also an animal ethics type of reason, which is something that is certainly understandable if you understand how some of the more profit-driven commercial slaughterhouses are operated. | |
| They're really cruel. | |
| The way they kill the cows. | |
| It's not just that they're killing them. | |
| It's the way they kill them. | |
| It's the way they raise them. | |
| It's the way that the cows are grown in these horrible conditions. | |
| I'm not against free-range ranching, by the way. | |
| I see that all over Texas. | |
| I know a lot of ranchers. | |
| They're good people. | |
| They treat their animals really well. | |
| But these cattle factory... | |
| I don't know what you call them. | |
| Operations in Colorado... | |
| Where are they? | |
| Up just north of Fort Collins. | |
| That's where they are. | |
| The whole town smells like cow urine, by the way. | |
| All of you who live in Fort Collins, that's what you're smelling. | |
| It's cow urine, not the cow farts that are destroying the environment. | |
| It's the urine that's breezing into town across your Hewlett-Packard campus there, if that still exists. | |
| But... | |
| These cow factories, CAFOs, that's what they're called. | |
| The cattle factories, basically. | |
| They're so cruel that a lot of people are looking for alternatives that is more ethical. | |
| Even vegetarians, by the way, who, by the way, they always eat meat when they're drunk. | |
| That's been scientifically established. | |
| What do you call a... | |
| A vegetarian, a sober meat-eater. | |
| What do you call a meat-eater? | |
| A drunk vegetarian. | |
| Yeah, just takes a couple of beers and is like, ribs, man! | |
| Give me some ribs! | |
| And all of a sudden, my vegetarianism is on holiday. | |
| Give me some ribs. | |
| And so, anyway, the vegetarians, rightfully, they don't want to eat cruel meat. | |
| And I understand that because I don't want to either. | |
| This is why I only eat free-range meats, even though I'm not a vegetarian. | |
| That's why I do that. | |
| I used to be a vegetarian. | |
| I used to be a vegan. | |
| But now, living in Texas and working on the ranch, I need more energy, so I actually do eat some meat. | |
| Anyway, everybody has a legitimate issue with the way animals are treated in the slaughterhouses and the animal factories. | |
| So they say, well, what if this meat is grown in a lab? | |
| You know, nothing has to die for you to have a burger. | |
| And, you know, on the surface, that's a pretty cool idea. | |
| Really? | |
| Nothing has to die for me to eat lunch? | |
| That's a pretty cool concept. | |
| Now, of course, you could eat mushrooms. | |
| You know, you could eat lentils. | |
| You could eat your textured genetically modified soy protein burger, which is horrible, by the way. | |
| Or you could spend 215,000 pounds and you could have a barbecued lab burger for lunch. | |
| But if they bring the price down, wouldn't this be a viable alternative for many people to have a no-death-required cheeseburger? | |
| That would be part of it. | |
| But here's the thing. | |
| I got a question about this because I'm always thinking critically and skeptically about everything that I see. | |
| Here's a question. | |
| How much energy does it take to run this burger lab? | |
| How much energy does it take to gather the raw materials, to build the building? | |
| Because in Texas and other places where there's cattle ranching, you basically have a big piece of land. | |
| Hey, there's a thousand acres. | |
| Throw a barbed wire fence around that thing and let loose the cattle. | |
| You've got a meat factory. | |
| You know what I'm saying? | |
| It's not complicated and it's really environmentally friendly if you think about it because most of these lands are not usable for gardening. | |
| The cattle will work the worst lands imaginable. | |
| They have cattle ranches in Nevada, right, in the desert outside Las Vegas. | |
| And cows can even turn that into food, believe it or not. | |
| But of course, you've got to kill the cows in the process. | |
| But my point is, I'm not sure that the environmental impact of all of this is being accurately calculated. | |
| And by the way, these stem cells, what's to say that there's not some possible health effect that we don't know about yet? | |
| Now, I'd be the first to say that probably this lab-grown meat doesn't present a health risk any more than regular meat, let's say, right? | |
| But what if there's something that we don't know yet, that maybe you get a burger that's not cooked all the way, And you get some weird genetically modified stem cell that they've been using in the lab, and it has some crazy transgenic effect in your digestive tract that no one thought about. | |
| Gee, that's never happened before in the history of science. | |
| No, there wasn't a drug called thalidomide that caused birth defects. | |
| No, that never happened. | |
| No, there wasn't toxic shock syndrome in the 1970s where women were killed by their tampons. | |
| No, that never happened. | |
| Forget it. | |
| No, no, science never made any mistakes, especially food science. | |
| No, there wasn't genetic pollution of farmers' crops that caused GMOs to be in foods that you thought were not. | |
| No, that never happened. | |
| Shh, don't even talk about it. | |
| So you see, my point is, what if there are some mistakes that are made that are unintended, unintentional, but yet occur nevertheless? | |
| What could be the effects on you? | |
| And then there's also the whole question of, well, okay, is the nutritional quality of this meat going to be the same as the nutritional quality of actual burgers from ground-up cow parts? | |
| I know that sounds a little crazy, but beef, for many people, especially like type O, people with type O blood, they need a high protein diet. | |
| They actually do really well on a relatively high percentage of meat in their diet compared to blood type A people or B people who are more vegetarian oriented and can do fine on a vegetarian diet. | |
| But many people, type O's in particular, need some meat. | |
| So they depend on this meat for their nutrition. | |
| For some reason, they need higher protein concentrations in their diet. | |
| So is this lab grown meat going to be able to meet that need in the same way that dead cows do? | |
| Maybe the answer is yes. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I'm willing to take a look at this. | |
| I'm not, by the way, I'm not coming out and saying this is horrible. | |
| We should banish this. | |
| What I'm saying is let's take a look and let's ask some questions, but let's also be realistic here. | |
| No one's going to pay $1,000 a burger, for one thing, if that's what it comes out to be. | |
| And the second thing is, is there a waste product that comes out of this lab? | |
| What happens after the stem cells are fed? | |
| Is there some emission from this that is somehow toxic? | |
| Is there... | |
| What are the raw materials that go into this? | |
| What do you feed stem cells to make a hamburger? | |
| See, I'm not exactly sure yet. | |
| It's probably some combination of weird chemicals. | |
| Where are they getting those? | |
| Is this a byproduct from Basif or Bayer? | |
| Is this something they get from a chemical plant in Germany that used to belong to IG Farben, part of the Nazi regime of the Third Reich that was broken up into multiple companies, including Bayer? | |
| That now makes Bayer Children's aspirin. | |
| I mean, where are these chemicals coming from and what's in them? | |
| And does that pose a health risk to the humans that are eating these lab burgers? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I don't know. | |
| But these are legitimate questions that we would ask those of us who are, you know, leaders of the clean food movement. | |
| We're going to ask these questions. | |
| And again, hey, I'd be up for touring this facility, by the way. | |
| I'm not... | |
| I'm totally against it. | |
| I'm kind of really on the fence on this issue. | |
| Let's check it out and find out what happens. | |
| Maybe these Dutch guys have really figured this thing out. | |
| I love Dutch people. | |
| They're really smart. | |
| They speak like 12 languages. | |
| They're smart cookies, you know, and maybe they have a great way to replace killing the cow, which could be a viable alternative and it could have a market. | |
| So I'm open-minded to this. | |
| If you guys want to invite me over, I'll come take a look. | |
| Yeah, I'll take a look at your beef factory, and if it looks like the Matrix, okay, I'm running away. | |
| I'm running away and blogging about it as quickly as possible. | |
| But if it's cool, I'll check it out. | |
| I'm a scientist, too. | |
| I run a lab. | |
| I could check out your lab, and maybe there's something to it. | |
| Anyway, we'll see what happens. | |
| Thanks for listening. | |
| My name is Mike Adams. | |
| I'm the Health Ranger. | |
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