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Today, in the morning update, Canada approved cloned meat for human consumption, and it has captured many an imagination, including mine. What’s the deal with Cloned Meat? Links: We Rely On Your Support – To Keep the Content Coming! Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its … Read more
A new study suggests vegetarians may be “less benevolent” than meat eaters. This may seem counterintuitive, given that among the chief motivations for giving up meat are concern for animal welfare and the environment. The study reinforces prior assessments that eating a plant-based diet does not make people less empathetic toward others, but rather, those … Read more
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is expected to sign a bill banning cell-cultured proteins in the Lone Star State. Montana, Indiana, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Nebraska have enacted similar bans, reflecting an increasing pushback to what many see as a globalist effort to control food supplies, undermining traditional American farming. Advocates claim fake meat substitutes, … Read more
We’ve always reserved the right to share or use reader mail for content. I thought this brief bit of exposition on Jake Tapper and Maggie Goodlander was worth a share. Authors are welcome to identify themselves or not in the comments. I was just reading this article about what Jake Sullivan thinks about China and … Read more
We’re not fans of fake meat. It isn’t better for the environment, and it isn’t better for you. But we won’t tell you not to buy or eat it. We will tell you that you are being fed lies, but knock yourself out if you don’t care or are comfortable with the fantasy. Eating fake meat is … Read more
Bioindustrial Manufacturing and Design Ecosystem (BioMADE), which has received more than $500 million in Department of Defense funding, recently announced it is soliciting proposals to develop “innovations in food production that reduce the CO2 footprint of food production at … DoD operational environments.” Translation: The Pentagon is funding research and development of novel cell-cultured fake … Read more
Following years of marketing hype proclaiming that fake meats would transform the food industry and modern diets, sobriety has descended on the industry as manufacturers wrestle with declining sales, dissatisfied customers, and difficulties achieving profitability.
Iowa has become the latest state to signal hostility toward fake meat food products, imposing fines of up to $10,000 on manufacturers who mislabel protein-based products as meat.
Cloned meat, one of several names I’ve bandied about for Lab-grown meat (mystery meat is another), is not better for the environment, it is not better for people, and it is not the future of beef in America if actual Americans have anything to say.
No compilation of urban legends would be complete without mentioning cafeteria-style mystery meat. It is shaped like meat, colored (and cooked) like meat, but would it stand up to even casual scrutiny? Stories about schools saving money by cheating out on food were spurious at best. Schools don’t try to save money.
A growing list of potentially intractable problems confronts the alternative meat industry, which includes both plant-based substitutes and cultured “cell-grown” meats.
Special Forces Community endorsed Haley Last week, a number of Special Forces veterans listening to the Wilkow Majority became apoplectic when Brandon Webb announced that SOFREP had endorsed Nikki Haley. While not a monolithic endorsement, a substantial endorsement, nonetheless.
It is no secret that I think Nikki Haley is a Constitutional threat. And you won’t find many, if any, authors here who support her bid. That’s not to say we should not have some op-eds that support here. But so far, that’s not what people are sending me.
Human beings need the proteins in meat, but the Climate Cult, hand-in-hand with the animal rights loons, has been pushing an anti-meat crusade for years. From fake meat to lab-grown meat – both worse for the environment, to this new idea they’ve stumbled upon.
Mark Robinson is the current Lt. Governor of North Carolina. He is the first black man to hold the role, but he deserves a shot at much higher office (rumor has it he might be on Trump’s shortlist for VP, but that is not confirmed). All I can say is, wow!
The USDA is almost entirely responsible for obesity in America. That’s the thing where men are overweight. When it’s women, we call it body positivity, if we call it anything, but that’s a rose by any other name. Carrying extra weight is bad for longevity and lowers quality of life. The USDA blames meat.
I went to Chunky’s last week. The chairs are comfortable and adjustable, but the food is lousy – cute movie-themed names for menu items but not the best. One of the “burgers” was named the To Infinity and Beyond burger, made with – you guessed it – Beyond Beef.
We’ve written about Lab Grown meat and plant-based products pretending to be meat. Their carbon footprint is larger. It costs more than the real thing. And while plant-based fake meat’s nutritional claims are spurious, with cloned meat, they are a mystery.
A not-so-old adage says cows eat grass; therefore, steak is plant-based meat. I was reminded of that last week when someone was talking to me about some vegan encounter of the third kind—the COIVD-era equivalent of a food Karen.
Impossible foods are having an impossible week in the impossible EU over their Impossible burger. The European Patent Office (EPO) has revoked the Impossible patent.