The dangers of artificial meat – the most toxic meat in the world

At first glance, artificial meat sounds like the perfect solution to end world hunger, protect animal welfare, and protect the planet from environmental degradation. A quick look below the surface reveals a much more nefarious reality.

To raise awareness of this recent attack on human health, Dr. Joseph Mercola has recently spoke to moderator Polly Tommey on Children’s Health Defense’s Tea Time show about the dangers of synthetic meat products.

Counterfeit meat is about controlling food supply

Counterfeit foods – including meat from the laboratory, animal-free dairy products and meat on a plant basis – are the latest attempt by globalists to control food supply. Former US Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger once said: “Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people.” People control is their whole program.

With their patented genetically modified organisms (GMO), the globalists have long held a monopoly on the grain industry. In the early 2010s, not many people knew about GMOs. In 2011, alternative media started to educate the public about their dangers as they pose a major threat to public health and the environment.

In 2012, an election initiative was launched in California that required labeling for genetically modified food and food ingredients. The initiative was narrowly rejected due to massive donations from multinational corporations, but the people won in the long term because awareness of GMOs in food supply has increased significantly. Today, most health-conscious people avoid genetically modified organisms (GMO).

A similar trend can now be observed in counterfeit foods. The globalists are trying to replace animal husbandry with meat grown in the laboratory, which will enable private companies to effectively control the entire food supply.

Fake meat is worse than CAFOs

Many people are aware of the pitfalls of concentrate feed companies (CAFOs) – unnatural nutrition with GMO cereals, overcrowded stables, inhumane treatment, excessive pollution and rampant spread of diseases. CAFOs are bad – but the new era of counterfeit food will be worse.

With their patented meat imitations, the globalists will have unprecedented control over human health. It sounds noble to want to provide the entire world population with animal-free methods, but it is a delusion.

Will Harris is a pioneer in regenerative agriculture and runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia. It produces high quality grass-fed products, including milk, butter and different cheese products, in a way that is good for the consumer, the environment and financial health of its company. While the globalists spread the idea that animal foods destroy the planet when they are regeneratively raised, as is the case with Harris, this is far from the truth.

It is the counterfeit food that will ultimately endanger the environment. “We tie 3.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent for every pound of grass-fed beef product that we sell. Ironically, the same environmental engineers did an analysis of Impossible Burgers”, Harris said on the show The Joe Rogan Experience. “They emit 3.5 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent.”

Regenerative agriculture beats fake foods

Impossible Foods, together with Beyond Meat, is a major player in the artificial meat market. Impossible Foods claims to have a better carbon footprint than living animal farms and commissioned Quantis, a group of scientists and strategists, to prove their thesis. The summary states that the product reduces the environmental impact in the categories examined, including land use and water consumption, by 87%-96%.

However, the counterfeit meat is compared to meat from CAFOs that are notoriously environmentally destructive and have nothing in common with Harris’ Farm. Harris commissioned the same analysis from Quantis for White Oaks and published a 33-page study comparing White Oaks Pastures emissions with those of conventional production.

While the artificially produced meat reduced its carbon footprint by up to 96% in some categories, White Oaks had a net total negative emissions compared to CAFO-produced meat.

In addition, grass-fed beef products from White Oak Pastures had a 111% lower carbon footprint than a typical American CAFO, and its regenerative system effectively binds carbon in the soil, which compensates for the majority of the emissions associated with beef products.

“The WOP system [White Oak Pastures] effectively binds carbon in the soil and thus compensates for a large part of the emissions associated with cattle farms”, the report says. “In the best case, WOP beef production can have a beneficial net effect on the climate. The results show great potential.”

So the idea that animals have to be completely removed from agriculture to save the planet is utterly wrong. In fact, animals are an integral and necessary part of the restoration process.

What is artificial meat?

Counterfeit meat is marketed as healthy food, but is nothing more than a highly ultra-processed mixture of chemicals. Impossible Foods, for example, uses genetic engineering to insert the DNA of soy plants into yeast, which creates genetically modified yeast with the gene for soy hemoglobin.

Impossible Foods describes this compound as “heme”, but technically speaking, plants produce non-heme iron, and they are genetically modified soy leghemoglobin from yeast. Heme iron only occurs in meat and seafood. The genetically engineered heme is used in the meat imitations of Impossible Foods as a color additive that leaves the product like real meat “bleeding”.

The health effects of genetically modified heme are unknown, but this did not prevent the US Food and Drug Administration from allowing soy leghemoglobin in 2019. The Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit against the approval, which it describes as “unusually fast” and as risky for public health.

In its lawsuit, the CFS points out that soy leghemoglobin is produced using synthetic biology or “genetic engineering on steroids”, in which no DNA pieces are exchanged between species, but new biological parts, devices and systems are constructed that do not exist in the natural world:

“Impossible Foods turned to synthetic biology to produce genetically engineered soy hemoglobin because it could not extract enough of the substance directly from the soybean roots, to produce its counterfeit meat products on an industrial scale.” The FDA-GRAS for soy leghemoglobin is 526 pages long if this gives you an idea of the industrial complexity of this so-called GRAS “healthy” food.

Beyond Meat is similarly processed industrially. Beyond Burger Patties contain 22 ingredients. These include expeller-pressed rapeseed oil, pea protein isolate, cellulose from bamboo, modified food starch and methyl cellulose – hardly “healthy” food. Further processing is required to form a meat-like meatball from these ingredients.

It is also revealing that Impossible Foods has at least 14 patents and about 100 more are pending, although truly natural foods cannot be patented.

Wrong meat from Impossible Foods is contaminated with glyphosate, LA

Given that many ingredients in artificial meat products are made from genetically modified soy, it is not surprising that they are also contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate. The consumer protection organization Moms Across America (MAA) commissioned Health Research Institute Labs (HRI Labs) to determine an independent laboratory that tests both micronutrients and toxins in food, how much glyphosate is contained in the Impossible Burger and its competitor, the Beyond Burger.

The overall result of glyphosate and AMPA, the main metabolite of glyphosate, in the burgers was 11.3 parts per billion (ppb) in the Impossible Burger and 1 ppb in the Beyond Burger.

When the worrying results became known, Impossible Foods launched a defamation campaign to discredit the MAA and described the mother group as “a fundamentalist anti-GMO, anti-vaccination and anti-science group, who cynically peddle with a toxic brew of medical misinformation and completely unregulated, untested, potentially toxic quack supplements.”

The wrong meat glyphosate is a problem. The excessive amounts of omega-6 fat in the form of linoleic acid (LA) are another. This metabolic poison is the main cause of the increasing number of chronic diseases. It is important to realize that counterfeit meat alternatives do not contain healthy fats. All of the fat comes from industrial seed oils such as soybean and rapeseed oil, which are among the best LA sources.

Avoiding ultra-highly processed foods is important to keep LA intake low, and that includes artificial meat.

The “precision fermentation” is not natural either

Companies that produce counterfeit food want to make you believe that their products are natural because they are made from herbal ingredients, although there is nothing like that in nature. Precision fermentation is another term used by the biotech industry to undermine the popularity of truly health-promoting natural fermentation.

However, precision fermentation has nothing in common with its natural counterpart. Perhaps the most worrying thing about using precision fermentation is that companies can claim that it is natural.

Metabolic Engineering is an important sub-group of precision fermentation, methods such as next-generation sequencing, high-throughput library screening, molecular cloning and multiomics “to optimize microbial strains, metabolic pathways, product yield and bioprocess scale-up”. It sounds like something on the farm, doesn’t it?

Whether you call it precision fermentation, gene editing, GMOs or anything else, don’t fall for the hype that it’s good for you or the planet.

Where should you get your healthy products from?

If counterfeit meat is not healthy and CAFO meat is not a good choice, the legitimate question is where to find products that are beneficial to your health and the planet? The answer is: get to know a farmer near you. Visit the farm and see how the animals are raised, so you could find non-GMO, ecological eggs, milk, butter, cheese etc.

Get to know the resources that are available to you in your community. If you can’t find a local farm, check out certified organic products at your local grocery store. However, it is best to stay on site and find a source of real food near you.

If possible, create a vegetable garden, plant fruit trees and even breed chickens if this is allowed in your area. For the foods you cannot procure yourself, you should rely on your community to fill the gaps.

As in the case of GMOs, it is important to raise awareness of the dangers of false meat, especially in this early and aggressively expanding phase. Explain to your friends, family and colleagues that in order to save the planet and promote your health, it is necessary to do without all artificial meat alternatives and instead choose real food.

 

yogaesoteric
April 24, 2023