According to Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum, ongoing global warming threatens to destroy humanity. Methane, coming from the belches and farts of cows, is a greenhouse gas (GHG). So, cows are a problem! Fortunately, Bill Gates has a solution for us, explained in this video. We need to stop growing cattle and switch to lab-grown synthetic beef. The World Economic Forum expects we will eat “synthetic meat” in 16 years. (the article below was written 4 years ago) Bill Gates made sizable investments in “synthetic meat” manufacturers, expecting to turn a nice profit. The CNBC article explains that “lab-grown meat,” that is, cell cultures grown in giant stainless vats, is not the same as “fake meat” made of soy or pea protein:
Okay, but what kinds of cells is that lab meat grown from? Lab-Grown “Meat” is Made of “Immortalized” Cancer CellsThis excellent Bloomberg article (paywall-free link) clarifies that all lab meat is grown as immortalized tumor cells. As the article explains, these same cells are used to produce traditional vaccines.
What are these cells?
The article puts a “human face” on some of these cell lines, for example, the “HeLa line” made from the cervical cancer of Henrietta Lacks:
The distinction between pre-cancerous and cancerous cells is relatively minor: cancerous cells, by definition, can float away from the tumor site, travel through the blood or lymph, and start a new tumor (metastases) in another location in the body. The distinction is important for the clinical outcome of a patient with a newly discovered tumor but involves only a minor bio-cellular distinction.
Not so misleading! The main problem of growing an endless “lab meat” supply is that normal tissue cells cannot endlessly replicate (see above). There is a limit on how many times they will divide. Vaccine manufacturers already use such immortalized tumor cells to make some Covid vaccines and other vaccines:
Thus, “lab meat” and “cell line” suppliers grow meat from tumor cells that are “immortalized”; in other words, their cells can endlessly replicate. This is why cancers never stop growing, after all!
Are you skeptical of the above? I am. Even Bloomberg author Joe Fassler, to his credit, doubted the above explanation and asked independent biologists who also did not believe Yaakov Nahmias’s BS:
We can see that so far, all lab meat is made using endlessly-dividing tumor cells. Our bodies’ immune systems are designed to kill off and fight such endlessly-dividing cells. Thus, cancers only take hold when immune systems weaken or the cancer cells learn to avoid immune reactions.
The lab meat companies plan to sell those kinds of cells to us to eat. Bon appetit! USDA Inspectors Screen Out Cancers and Tumors in Animal CarcassesDespite Bloomberg's restrained and soothing language, cancers and tumors can never pass USDA meat inspections. Now They Want to Sell Us Solid Tumor “Steaks”
I am sure that one way or another, Bill Gates and the WEF will lobby for a change in rules so that they can sell us solid tumors as “lab-grown meat.” At this point, I am torn: would I rather eat “ze bugz”, or “lab-grown tumor meat.” A tough decision! What would YOU choose? You're currently a free subscriber to Igor’s Newsletter. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |