by Fed Up Texas Chick, The Tenpenny Report:
Remember years ago when advertisers claimed pork to be the other white meat? Now, the modern era has ushered in meatless meat. First at bat was the plant-based Impossible Burger, a product released in 2016. You asked, “How can plants taste like meat? It’s impossible!” “Will this really taste like the burgers grandma used to make?”
Well, hold on to your knickers, because the Impossible Burger pales in comparison to what is happening now. The saga surrounding meatless meat has become a whole lot meatier. Indeed, this situation has gotten worse. A whole lot worse!
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In late June, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave permission to not one, but two companies to begin selling cell-cultivated chicken meat to chicken-loving Americans like you and me.
The two companies are Good Meat and Upside Foods. It appears there is a fox in the henhouse, and that fox is none other than Bill Gates. He has invested for years in Upside Foods, along with pal Richard Branson. Good Meat has a parent company known as Eat Just, which as of March 2021 had raised over $400 million from multiple investors, including Bill Gates’ investment arm Gates Ventures.
So, yes, you are reading this right. Bill Gates is involved in both of the companies that just got approval from not one, but two major US regulatory agencies, the USDA and the FDA. Actually, Good Meat received approval in Singapore in December 2020 and has been selling lab chicken in that country.
Where does Gates find the time? After all, he’s so busy predicting (or creating?) the next pandemic! You know the statement that “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely going to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war,” Gates said in a 2015 Ted Talk. He was right! It was a pandemic! Now he is clucking around with lab grown chicken. Amazing. What else is in store for us with Gates’ guru-like prophecies?
Gates views cultivated meat as the trifecta. After all, it solves global warming, inhumane treatment of animals, and the growing global hunger problem. That must be why the company names are “upside” and “eat just”. No subliminal messaging here. However, you probably feel really, really good about fake chicken right about now, but you can’t explain why.
The Regulatory Process
Both “meat” companies purportedly had a long regulatory process where they had to get both USDA and FDA approval. First, the two agencies had to work together to decide how the lab-made meat would be regulated. The agencies held a public meeting in October 2018, then created the regulatory framework in 2019 in which USDA and FDA would share responsibilities. In July 2020, the agencies held a joint public meeting to report how they would share responsibility for cultured meat regulation. In November 2022, the FDA completed its pre-market consultation for a human food made from cultured animal cells. Despite this being the first time for such science, the FDA issued a “no questions” letter to Upside Foods, and the same to Good Meat a few months later. The letter stated that FDA had no questions about safety or any other matter. A timeline from November 2022 to June 2023 for regulatory approval by the FDA is incredibly short — unheard of to most normal companies that have to go through the regulatory process.
The UPSIDE Foods team and Good Meat have now achieved all three key regulatory milestones: A “No Questions” Letter from the FDA, a USDA Label Approval, and the USDA Grant of Inspection. And in record time no less!
While it will likely be years before the two companies have the scale to sell cell-cultivated meat in grocery stores, the USDA and FDA approvals will eventually allow the sale of cell-cultivated meat across state lines after passing federal inspections.
The Climate Agenda
One of the big selling points for “alternative” meat companies is the growing environmental concerns a la the climate change agenda. They’re telling us that these operations are so much friendlier to the environment that those pesky farting, burping cows (and chickens, for that matter). But are these companies better for the environment?
It is assumed that lab-grown meat made of animal cells will use less land, less water and really less everything, right? However, University of California, Davis researchers have just shown that cultivated meat will have “orders of magnitude” higher environmental impact than regular ol’ beef (known as cows). Researchers performed what is known in the industry as a life cycle assessment to analyze the laboratory-based production methods. The energy needed, and greenhouse gases emitted, will have a gargantuan carbon footprint. For example, purification of the animal cell growth medium uses lots of resources. In terms of the global warming scale commonly used to bash us all into climate submission, these new lab methods will have a 4 to 25 times greater carbon global warming potential than average retail beef. It’s going to be way more expensive, too. It’s clear to see that the flatulent cows win this argument hands down (or udders down).
If the industry is one day able to change from pharmaceutical-grade processes to food-grade processes, the two new meat companies do become more environmentally competitive but likely still above conventional beef production. Another victory for the farting cows as the researchers conclude that cultured meat is not inherently better for the environment/
But Is It Healthy?
Just like these meats are touted as environmentally friendly, they are also touted as healthy. Let’s examine that. One of the things consumers love about the Impossible Burger is that is looks so much like red meat. It’s made of plants, though, so how is this accomplished? Heme is used. It is an iron-rich molecule mostly found in red meat. Impossible Burger uses it to mimic the bleeding juices that real burgers have. The heme is harvested from soy plant roots and inserted into genetically-engineered yeast. These yeasts can easily be engineered to spit out waste products, which the company renamed as “magical” products. So you’re eating a waste product that mimics the blood of red meat. Yum! It sounds delicious.
Cell-cultivated meats like those just FDA-approved, differ from plant-based meats. They’re actual meat but just created in a lab from animal muscle cells. To create lab chicken, a biopsy is taken from the chicken and cells are then placed in a bioreactor awash in a growing “bath” with salt, water, vitamins and other nutrients the cells need to grow. These cells grow into the muscle, fat and connective tissue found in real meat. After about two weeks, the product is removed from the tank and shaped into familiar chicken shapes like nuggets or cutlets and cooked. Yummy!
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