FDA APPROVES & ITALY BANS LAB-GROWN MEAT

In our last scheduled blog of 2023 before the Christmas holiday, I wanted to leave you with a warning to make sure that Christmas goose, turkey, or ham you're preparing for your family this year really is a goose, turkey, or ham, and not an agglutination of the stem cells thereof: here's why (article courtesy of V.T.):

FDA Approved, Controversial Lab-Grown Meat Becomes a Reality

Some time ago, and in an entirely different context, I told readers of this website to "watch Italy," because that country was then on the forefront of issuing quiet challenges to the growing globaloney narratives and to the extent possible, resisting them, from sanctions against Russia which its agricultural minister and Italian agri-businesses were anxious to "work around", to sending business representatives to Moscow to confer with Mr. Putin's ministers, to increasingly public denunciations of the European (dis)Union's open border policies, and so on. One component of that pushback against globalooneyism has been Italy's quiet pushback against 'Frankenfoods", our term here for all the genetic experimentation that has been going on with the west's food supply; it's a story that has its parallels in the world of "designer drugs," the most recent of which have been the highly experimental covid injections.  You might recall that Italian physicians were among some of the first in Europe that were questioning the whole narrative.  So "watch Italy" and its attitude to "lab-grown" meat seems appropriate once again. I suppose it could be summed up with the observation that the Italians take their food and their clothes and tailoring very seriously.  Don't get me wrong, the Italians are not against technology or "progress".  After all, they invented the Renaissance. But that means they're also realists as well; one might as well expect the Italian government to allow an artificial intelligence tailorshop to advertise itself as "a genuine Italian hand-crafted tailor and clothier" as to allow "lab grown meat" to advertise itself as Italian sausage.  It's as much a cultural and economic issue of reality as it is a technological issue, as the article itself notes:

In a Nov. 16 Facebook post, Italian Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida said, “In defense of health, of the Italian production system, of thousands of jobs, of our culture and tradition, with the law approved today, Italy is the first nation in the world to be safe from the social and economic risks of synthetic food," according to an English translation.

The bill passed the Italian Senate by a measure of 159–53 and was supported by the country's agricultural groups, which worked to protect Italy's $10.1 billion meat-processing industry.

In other words, the lab-grown meat industry threatens the food supply of real meat, being raised and processed.  If pressed to its ultimate conclusion, lab grown meat threatens the food supply and the millennia-old agricultural foundations of animal husbandry.  Similar efforts, as the article notes, are under way in various American states to get proper labeling on such food products:

Efforts in the United States to block lab-grown meat, or to ensure that consumers know what they're buying, include a 2018 law in Missouri that prohibits plant-based and lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat.”

"​​This act also prohibits misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry," the law states.

On Nov. 13, Florida state Rep. Tyler Sirois filed a bill that aims to prohibit the "manufacturing, sale, holding, or distribution of cultivated meat" in the state.

"Farming and cattle are incredibly important industries to Florida," the Republican legislator told Politico. "So I think this is a very relevant discussion for our state to have."
Should the bill, HB 435, become law, restaurants and stores in violation could be fined up to $5,000, and manufacturers, processors, packers, or distributors who misrepresent or mislabel the food could be fined up to $10,000 per violation.
None of this, however, is the focus of my concern in today's blog.  That focus is rather concerned about this:

Good Meat—the cultivated meat brand of the food technology company Eat Just, Inc.—has manufacturing facilities in the United States and Singapore.

According to the company, the USDA approval allows for its first lab-grown chicken product to be produced and sold in the United States. Four months earlier, the company had received its "No Questions" letter from the FDA, which meant it passed a food safety review.

Add to these statements the following observation earlier in the article, and we arrive at the main focus of my concern:

Cultivated meat, also known as lab-grown meat, is created in a lab through a five-step process in which stem cells from an animal are replicated and grown in a series of bioreactors before being blended with additives to create a more realistic texture. The meat cells are then drained in a centrifuge, formed, and packaged for distribution, according to consulting firm McKinsey & Company.

Note what we have once again, in what has  become a familiar pattern for the FDA and for its subservience to Big Pharma and Big Agriculture, because we've seen this pattern before in its approval of GMO foods and the doctrine of "substantial equivalence" (a doctrine we'll get back to in a moment), as well as having seen the pattern much more recently with the "emergency authorization" of the covid injections, for in all three instances - GMO foods, the covid injections, and now synthetic "meat" - there has been absolutely no long-term, intergenerational testing on long term health or environment effects.  Over the years of covering the GMO issue, I noted that Russia was one of the countries that - -early on - questioned the so-called safety of GMO foods, opting to conduct intergenerational studies, and banning their cultivation and mass-marketing in the meantime. I have noted - along with many others - the falling yields and growing costs per acre of GMO foods, cancer risks and so on. We saw with the covid planscamdemic and with the experimental injections a manifest fraud perpetrated on millions of people, without long term inter-generational testing and emergency authorizations and assurances from the Food and Drug Administration that the injections were safe and effective.  A long and growing list of adverse reactions and sudden deaths have given lie to that as well, and fostered the growth of an entirely new kind of genre: not "conspiracy theory', but "coincidence theory," the theory that, in spite of massive correlation between increased adverse reactions and the injections, there is only correlation, with no hint of causative connections.  Such thinking, of course, is unreasonable, for causation never happens without correlation, and thus when one finds correlations it is only  natural to seek for confirmations of causation.

Now, with the lastest FDA ruling, we appear, as I've noted many times, to be looking once again at the doctrine of "substantial equivalence" in a new guise.  Big agribusiness was able to bypass concerns about itner-generational testing and impact by arguing that if a GMO version of corn or tomatoes looked and tasted like their non-genetically modified equivalents, then for all intentions and purposes, they were equivalent in substance, or substantially equivalent, except when it came to the patents, and of course, to the fact that GMOs were, in many cases, "mules" and "hinneys" incapable of reproduction, so that to plant a field of GMo corn year after year, the farmer could not husband some seeds for replanting, for the seeds would be sterile. He would have to buy  new seeds from the big agri-business selling them. In the case of lab-grown meat, the same doctrine of "if it looks the same and tastes the same then it is the same" appears to be in play again, regardless of whether or not continually ingesting "meats" synthesized from the stem cells of such meats is healthy or not. We do not know if it is, because again, no inter-generational studies have been conducted, and for an FDA that rushed to approve the emergency authorizations of the experimental covid injections on the basis of the corporations' own "science" and assurances that everything about them was "A-O.K.", I am skeptical. I rather suspect that in some years we will start to see correlations of diets high in synthetic lab-grown meats, and virulent and new strains and perhaps even new types of cancers.

After all, they have lied about GMOs and injections, why not this as well?

In short, I'm fast approaching the point where, if I want to eat meat, be it chicken, turkey, or some form of ground beef, I want to actually see the carcass until such time as the institutions we trust to evaluate product safety are actually doing their jobs again, and not exhibiting a revolving door of conflicts of interest as personnel move from the corporations to the FDA (or FCC, or FAA) and back again...

See you on the flip side...

 

 

 

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Joseph P. Farrell

Joseph P. Farrell has a doctorate in patristics from the University of Oxford, and pursues research in physics, alternative history and science, and "strange stuff". His book The Giza DeathStar, for which the Giza Community is named, was published in the spring of 2002, and was his first venture into "alternative history and science".

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  1. Cascadian Girl on December 19, 2023 at 12:16 pm

    It seems many human beings are completely domesticated. This is by consent. They choose to live in cities and suburbs, where they rely on retailers to supply 100% of their daily needs. They listen to “experts” and do as they are told. They allow the state to raise (and tame) their children, while complaining about it. They demand free health care. They choose to divorce themselves from the natural world. They exchange their labor for fun tickets (“currency”). They use their fun tickets for entertainment of every sort. They pay tribute (taxes) to the ranchers for the “privilege” of living this way. They are basically livestock. It’s an easy choice to make, if you’re willing to believe the lie. The ranchers offer unimaginable creature comforts and tech toys, as compensation for not jumping the fence. The ranchers have a lot of considerations. They worry the livestock will use more resources than their labor provides, for instance. The idea of culling the herd is introduced. Using food and medicine are obvious methods. “Education” is another.

    The whole thing is consent driven. Everything is just an offer. That elements of the herd whine and shriek about lab produced whatever-it-is blows my mind. Voting harder isn’t helpful in a system rotten to the core. How about examining ways to become less dependent? How about rising out of victimhood? Meet some farmers. Plant a garden. Raise some chickens or quail. Raise goats. Educate your children. Take responsibility for your own health. It’s doable, if willing to dispense with some vises and addictions. It’s a challenge. It’s worthy of consideration. Jump the fence.



    • anakephalaiosis on December 20, 2023 at 8:47 am

      Identity is a category, that makes a distinction, between what is, and what isn’t, and that is power of definition, in politics.

      Separating sheep from goats (Matthew 25:32), and wheat from chaff (Matthew 3:12), is creating an British ethnostate.

      Making a distinction, between proto-Scythian and Assyrian loyalist, expells the latter. Exodus occurs, when expulsion is not practical.

      When Assyrian loyalists demanded both wine farms and bottle label, they received a skull cup toast, at the Last Supper.



  2. Kevin Ryan on December 17, 2023 at 1:01 am

    To make lab grown meat, each stem cell will need to be stimulated to produce a multitude of cells and those cells will need to reproduce at a rapid rate, far faster than such cells would make muscle in a growing steer, chicken, or pig. In size and shape, these cellular masses will not be substantially equivalent to the musculature of an animal. How will manufacturers stimulate such rapid cellular reproduction? Growth hormone? Radiation to mutate the stem cells? This will not be Jesus turning two fish and five loaves into a banquet for thousands. This “lab meat” will probably be “grown” in vats where the stem cells float in a nutrient and chemical soup that is then filtered or spun to remove the “meat” cells and the nutrient soup will then likely be used a second time (or more) to grow more cells – pushing the process to reuse and recyle as much as possible to maximize profits by getting the most production as possible out of each batch of soup. Think of it as forcing workers to work overtime until they are exhausted or the return has diminished to the point of zero profit. And as the process is pushed, cells and byproducts will appear that vary from the meat cells intended. We already know that processing many foods introduces chemicals and materials that often create health hazards. “Lab meat” will contain who knows what additional stabilizers and texturizers by the time the product hits store shelves. In addition to watching for an uptick in cancers in populations consuming Lab Meat, we should also look for an increase in auto immune disease as consumers’ bodies incorporate this Frankenfood into their bodily tissues and then the auto immune system identifies “stuff” from this Lab Meat as foreign or “not me” and begins its effort to remove it from the body. Inflammation, organ failure, whatever. Doctors tell us the old baloney and hot dogs are unhealthy. And the FDA greenlights “Lab meat”?



    • anakephalaiosis on December 17, 2023 at 9:42 am

      Lab meat is literally cancer cells, grown in a Petri dish, which causes cancer in return, when consumed.

      It is poison sold as food, with the intent, to cull useless eaters, in an hostile act of territorial conquest.

      It is conquest, by a Trojan horse in the food supply, which is technically defeating an enemy from within.

      An enemy is operating within the gates, which technically is an act of aggression.



    • zod1ac5corp1o on December 17, 2023 at 8:04 pm

      That sounds gross. People I know go on about oh how they’ll find a cure for cancer one day – the fucking heros. My answer-yeah they caused it in the first place. I don’t recall kids getting cancer when I was kid- or dogs for that matter. A world of sick illusions.



  3. Nidster - on December 17, 2023 at 12:17 am

    Take this to a much deeper level folks…. Transhumanism is the idea to transform humanity, and one of the ways is through the transformation of our FOOD supply. Latest example has been in the Ukraine where the World’s wheat supply there was being transformed by way of introducing hybrid wheat, soybean seeds, as well as spraying herbicides and insecticides on the crops produced. All produced mainly by way of Monsanto, and their ‘subsidiaries’, otherwise known as their subordinates. That should ‘ring a bell’ with many folks who have been around here for a long, long, long Time.

    North America [America, Canada and Mexico] have already undergone the transformation, as well as Argentina, and other countries in that area. All of these areas have historically been Earth’s largest suppliers, and when a person considers the implications of where the latest World War has taken place then ‘stuff’ starts making more sense. One wonders just how much Russia, and its allies produce of the grains and seeds that are vitally essential to human life? Also, not forgetting the importance of rice supplies.



    • anakephalaiosis on December 17, 2023 at 11:26 am

      Quackademia doesn’t teach the distinction, between idea and concept, because power of mental control depends on abstraction.

      1. An idea is self-defining, like a man, cat, tree and house.

      2. A concept is chimeric, and is defined by other concepts.

      The word “human” is a both a concept, and a slave designation, and, by adding the prefix “trans” to it, adds a further layer of abstraction.

      One can’t add “trans” to man, without making it sound ridiculous, and, therefore, Quackademia needs to replace “man” with “human”.

      This is language manipulation, by removing spoken tongue, from being rooted in ideas, towards abstract fluidity in sterile concepts.

      Understanding the topological metaphor of the landscape suffixes, allows man, to create healthy abstractions, that are rooted in fertile ideas.

      https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/6wn8zkzt56whzv6/topological-metaphor.jpg



  4. Robert Barricklow on December 16, 2023 at 11:15 am

    McDonald’s has already patented its name
    for their all-new, synthetic hamburgers;
    in order to make them, appear as real as possible:
    “Slime-Balls”.



  5. johnycomelately on December 16, 2023 at 7:51 am

    All the weird synthetic technology being pushed has an unusual coincidence in that it would be useful in a wrecked biosphere.

    Perhaps the over lords are using us plebs as a testing ground for technology that could be used under ground or in space?



  6. ExternalObserver on December 16, 2023 at 12:36 am

    From lab grown cow, to lab grown human flesh. for consumption by humans.
    Now imagine every human donating his own cells for the meat he wants to eat.
    The image of an Ouroboros came to my mind, devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process in which men,
    becomes the prima materia for the magnum opus.
    The path to transmigration of the soul and immortality?
    What sickens me the most, is that some people want to do that, to the entirety of humanity.

    https://www.dezeen.com/2020/11/13/ouroboros-steak-meal-kit-andrew-pelling-grace-knight-orkan-telhan/



  7. marcos toledo on December 15, 2023 at 7:59 pm

    The West never knew what being human was, to begin with, the USA elites have been to a large extent robots anyone who shows humility and compassion has been targeted for elimination.



  8. Don B on December 15, 2023 at 6:11 pm

    A very thorough, cogent essay Dr. Farrell. Yes, glad to see Italy coming out of its doldrums. The last time my sister was
    there was 20 years ago after she retired from NASA, and she said it was changing then when she visited Dad’s old village in the hills southeast of Rome. She had been meeting with some Israelis she had worked with while at NASA. A Merry Christmas to you sir!



    • anakephalaiosis on December 15, 2023 at 9:17 pm

      1. Technically, Israelis don’t exist, because Jews don’t exist. Both claim an identity, that historically is a political construction, aimed at gaining political influence, and favours with the Romans, by using stolen feathers.

      2. All proto-Scythian descent turned Christian, and left the region, when the tin trade came to an end, because it was more cost-effective, to transport British tin, on Roman vessels, to Roman consumers, and bypass Jerusalem.

      3. Those remaining in the region, who clung onto the provincial identity, were descendants of the Assyrian loyalists, who originally had been brought into the region, to replace the forcefully deported proto-Scythians.

      4. The exodus to Britain left the region bereft of a producing class, which turned Judea into a failed province, with nothing to tax, and therefore it was cost-effective to destroy Jerusalem, and drive out the non-productive troublemakers.

      5. The original proto-Scythians are the modern Scandinavians, who came through Caucasus, and brought an oral tradition, that is deemed heathen, by the Roman Catholic Church, because they pose a threat to the papal narrative.

      6. Today, Americans are barking up the wrong tree, when they are buying into the fake claim, made by Assyrian loyalists, who were suppressing the proto-Scythian descendants, by waging cultural war on Yahweh, the annual jubilee.

      7. Scandinavian heathenry can explain, what Elohim-Yahweh originally meant, because certain ideas are still lingering, inside the Scandinavian tongues, and no-one else can do that, which is why heathens have been targeted, by Rome.



      • cobo on December 15, 2023 at 10:58 pm

        Ok, I’ve been trying to follow you. So, I have the Norse mythologies, which i will one day get to. But, I like, for what ir’s worth, Wardruna, especially with Aurora in these years. How do you feel about this music, although I get it is commercially solid… Sorry, YouTube has been dorking this up. This is as close as I can find to what i have saved and to my CDs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3otduFzmFPU



        • cobo on December 15, 2023 at 11:06 pm


        • anakephalaiosis on December 16, 2023 at 5:29 am

          1. Music is any man’s choice, reflecting man’s mood swings, and music can be intelligent, when it carries layers, and internal constructions. (Bach’s fugue)

          2. Assyrian oligarchy spoke of a besieged Jerusalem, as a bird in a cage, which speaks of musical man being held captive, by a tone-deaf troll.

          3. Old English word for planet is tun+gol, which means homestead chant, refering to planetary music of the spheres, from the heavenly homestead.

          4. There are nine worlds in Norse mythology, which is the realms of the 8-point compass, with the 9th world in the centre, Midgard, i.e. mid farm.

          5. Odin’s four sons are the 4-point compass, as equinoxes and solstices, which places Odin in the centre, manifesting the year cycle.

          6. Odin’s eight-legged horse is both the 8-point compass, used as template to measure time, a sundial, and also a martial arts system, i.e. yoga.

          7. The world tree, Yggdrasil’s Ash, means a finned seahorse’s ash tree, which is the mast on time’s sailboat, which is man in the centre of compass.

          8. Odin’s two brothers, Will and Woe, represent free will, to follow one’s stars, which is logic, and voluntary restraint, by reason, which is Woe.

          9. Creation is done by bonfire, aiming at the Northstar with a spear, which is two coordinates and a vector, in sacred geometry, creating a runic compass.

          This is the original Scythio-Christianity, whereas Judeo-Christianity is fakery, produced by tone-deaf trolls, in the most evil Vatican, by Assyrian loyalists.

          Inca in Andes:
          https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/t43dmrel5crwjlc/virgenes-del-sol.mp3



        • anakephalaiosis on December 16, 2023 at 6:12 am

          Bereft of sentiment, the hardingfele carries the Old Norse tune, whereas the highflying oral tradition is dead and gone. Bards do not sing anymore, instead they wait their chance, in silence, for an opportunity to bloody their sword. Poetry sharpens the sword.

          https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n8owumgJ6ZUqNz4NKwrPlH1W2bMsNmHOQ&si=oHi95uy20DxCKJBW



      • Don B on December 16, 2023 at 10:57 am

        Okay, uh, how about the people who presently live in a country called Israel? I have no comment about who is a jew or who is a REAL Israeli.



        • anakephalaiosis on December 17, 2023 at 8:58 am

          1. Technically, modern Jewry is Assyrian loyalists, who were brought in, by the Assyrian empire, to replace the deported proto-Scythians.

          2. Technically, modern Jewish royalty, in Europe, is Assyrian oligarchy, secretly brought to power, by the Roman Catholic Church.

          3. Technically, Zionism is an attempt, to justify Jewish royalty, in Europe, and claim historical legitimacy, by modern occupation in Palestine.

          4. Today, the Assyrian loyalists, who took over the proto-Scythian wine farms, want the label on the wine bottle as well. Cain wants to be Abel.

          5. There is no referendum in Europe, that could justify Jewish royalty in Europe, because the flagging out was a secret coup d’état, by the Vatican.

          6. The Assyrian oligarchy, that today unrightfully occupies thrones in Europe, is fearful about exposure, and possible backlash, and finds comfort in Zionism.

          7. The Assyrian oligarchy relies on the “divine right of kings” doctrine, which is threatened, by the secular compass ideology, known as Odin’s runes.

          8. There are no “Israelis”, only Assyrian loyalists, who occupied proto-Scythian wine farms then, and Palestinian lemon groves now.

          9. There is only one place in the world, that has the historical right, to call itself “Israel”, and that is Iceland, which is occupied, by the USA.

          https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rtq5r7pkcbxowfi/original-settlement.jpg



  9. cobo on December 15, 2023 at 5:06 pm

    “a five-step process in which stem cells from an animal are replicated and grown in a series of bioreactors…” mmmmmmmmm



  10. hillbilly on December 15, 2023 at 12:54 pm

    I’d rather stick to the family reciet of sparrow casserole, from the depression era. Oh, and I’ll take my beaks and claws extra crispy, on the side. Mutant flesh is not an option.



  11. Robert Barricklow on December 15, 2023 at 11:51 am

    Italy has human beings.
    The USSA has two-legged lab rats.
    Not to mention – two-legged rats, acting as FDA bureaucrats.
    Needless to say; the USSA’s leadership, has become rat invested.
    Need to import some real Italian tested pest control professionals;
    specializing as rat killers, to clean the USSA’s domestic houses of governance.

    Running late…
    White Rabbit.



  12. anakephalaiosis on December 15, 2023 at 9:20 am

    When the Matrix suffers a 51% attack, then a shift in reality perception occurs, because Bitcoin is based on majority rule, which is a papal filioque.

    When a man is sadistically seen, as a herded cattle, to be enslaved, culled and deported, then the Assyrian trade has morphed into a landgrab.

    Thus, the root cause of the Assyrian empire can be defined, as a gambling addiction, obsessed with breaking the casino, by expanding provinces.

    What are the odds, at the Vatican betting shop, on a man eating his own crap?



    • anakephalaiosis on December 15, 2023 at 10:22 am

      BTW, when the head of household clashes, with the majority rule (papal filioque), and he is dethroned by revolution, then the Creation (the Book of Genesis) redefines sovereignty, by reintroducing Elohim-Yahweh, as logic and reason, by the scales.

      Therefore, secularisation of Elohim-Yahweh is the predictable countermeasure, against the papal filioque, which – of course – is applying Scythian Odin, and his two brothers, Will and Woe, into the narrative.

      German “Weihnachten” literally means Woe’s night, which is a winter solstice reference, to death throes of the old year, and birth pangs of the new year, in the longest, holy night, which establishes sanctity of the Woe, as a general tribal truce.

      Understanding Yah+weh, as Year’s Woe, is the absolute imperative, because everything else depends on it.

      Jim Henson:
      https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/c9670bm8xtlvkok/midnight-places.mp4



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