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.
Two California companies, Good Meat and Upside Foods, are now approved to sell chicken created from animal cells in the United States. The U.S. is just the second country in the world — after Singapore — to allow the commercial sale of lab-grown meat, which is also referred to as “cultured” and “cell-cultivated” meat.
[Registered dietitian Diana] Rodgers told the Post that she is concerned about a lack of publicly-available nutritional information regarding lab-grown meat. When asked whether lab-grown meat was healthy or not, Rodgers said, “We just don’t know.”
And yes, it is cloned meat. Manufacturers grow it in metal tanks in a lab “from the cells of chickens, salt, and a base of soy and wheat.”
“I’d rather eat my shoe than lab-grown meat,” Rodgers told the Post. “McDonald’s is still better because the meat is a better option for vitamins,” she added later.
It will only be available in commercial applications like restaurants at first but don’t expect the menu to say Cloned Chicken Marsala or Cloned Lemon Chicken. Nor engineered, and not Lab Grown, either. I’d like the boneless (as if there’s any lab variety) chicken wing product, Buffalo sauce, hot. It’s perfect; there’s no wing nor any actual chicken. Dip it in a side of synthetic bleu cheese slurry and take a bite for Gaia, except not really.
“… growing meat in a lab appears to be twenty-five times more dangerous to the planet (emissions-wise) than beef on the hoof if that sort of thing concerns you. Not I, but the hypocrisy of anti-co2 hypocrites replacing essential protein with garbage whose manufacture releases exponentially more carbon than the real thing (since they pretend to care) does.
Much like the Northeast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), it will be effective at raising revenues but not at reducing emissions.
According to the reporting, it will sell for about 20.00/pound so the war on real meat must continue for clone meat to compete on price. Bill Gates on team cloned meat, so you can guess how that’s going to go. The lack of details about what’s in it or the actual nutritional value will remain a mystery, so feel free to call it what it is.
Mystery meat.
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