Cultured Meat, Anyone?

Where’s The Beef? Where’s The Culture?

If you’re vegetarian or vegan, it is possible that you have tried “Impossible Beef”, or one of the other varieties of factory-made meat. Although it is reported to taste like the real thing, actual beef, and the heavily processed fake varieties, have virtually nothing else in common.

Such chemically laden, GMO foods contain neither the same nutrient values nor the purity of their natural varieties. With real food gone from our tables, from where will our nutrients come? Is it all about stuffing our bellies, or is there more to nutrition?

It’s been reported that the USA has set in motion bans on all production of factory-farmed beef and other meats which create high levels of methane gas from their production. The ban in the USA will take effect on April 1, 2024, and that’s no joke.

The fake meat products, created in labs the world over, will be derived largely from beans and other plant-based ingredients, including cellulose, which is already a large percentage of the ingredients in name-brand grated cheeses. Think sawdust. The food industry has been getting us ready for this shift for many years by including fake ingredients that cause our devolution away from nature.

But, while environmental issues are one of the gravest concerns our planet faces, (next to nuclear war), and it is always about the gas, in the case of global warming, there are other factors to consider.

There are many heavy methane polluters of our atmosphere, creating holes in the ozone layer with the force of nuclear blasts.

Wealthy vegans eating tons of beans will be no exception.

That said, we will be left to gorge on such tasty tidbits as edamame and tempeh burgers, serving bowls overloaded with black beans and rice and fields of GMO corn and soy as far as the eye can see, in an effort to meet our protein and vitamin needs. That will leave us bloated, obese and far more gaseous than all the herds of cattle on Earth, combined!

Oh, boy! Can you say, culture shift?

I’m sorry. I’m just not buying it. I foresee mass global uprisings and basement chicken farms, a la prohibition era root-beer breweries.

Billionaires will make mints from shipping beef cattle to the moon to feed the unadaptable hungry, who will pay dearly for what they once had for pennies on the digital coin. And, by the way…

Bezos, Gates, Branson and their ilk will reap the rewards until we all die of starvation, disease and simple ignorance.

And, while I am currently making a shift away from red meat, and that desire is strong, I somehow doubt that most will go along with the plan.

We may have to use some of the other available approaches to solving the issue of global warming with our rising temperatures and seas, shrinking ice fields and coastlines, increasing weather “anomalies”, which are now the norm, and their attendant diasporas and extinctions.

We may have to use our inventiveness more sensibly with greater clarity. We may have to cut down on other pollutants and over-extensions of our huge egos and consumer habits in order to continue to inhabit this beautiful, generous and fragile planet Earth.

How about a real culture shift toward a less-bloated society, in all respects? How about we stop experimenting with nature and rediscover our natural health?

You are what you eat. The farther we get from the truth, the less clear, capable and honest we become. Eat fake food and we become fake. We become factory-made imitations of what we used to be as humans, unable to think or feel with integrity, blindly travelling the road to oblivion.

Couldn’t we find more enthusiasm for the natural beauty of our world? Couldn’t we, as humans learn to use our senses to see, hear and feel what is real?

We really do already have it all, don’t we? Let’s show our gratitude and preserve our precious natural world.

Thanks to Dr. Joseph Mercola for his inspiring April Fool’s article, which I include a link to here: https://media.mercola.com/ImageServer/Public/2022/April/PDF/raw-meat-sales-pdf.pdf