Lab-Grown Meat Is Made of Cancer Cells. Would You Like It Rare or Medium?

 

• • Lab-Grown “Meat” is Made of “Immortalized” Cancer Cells

    This excellent Bloomberg article (paywall-free link) clarifies that all lab meat is grown as immortalized tumor cells. To get the cell cultures to grow at rates big enough to power a business, several companies, including the Big Three, are quietly using what are called immortalized cells, something most people have never eaten intentionally. Immortalized cells are a staple of medical research, but they are, technically speaking, precancerous and can be, in some cases, fully cancerous. 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. Don’t worry: Prominent cancer researchers tell Bloomberg Businessweek that because the cells aren’t human, it’s essentially impossible for people who eat them to get cancer from them, or for the precancerous or cancerous cells to replicate inside people at all. &# There is a limit on how many times they will divide.

  • USDA Inspectors Screen Out Cancers and Tumors in Animal Carcasses

    Despite Bloomberg's restrained and soothing language, cancers and tumors can never pass USDA meat inspections.

  • Clarifications

    The above story applies to “lab-grown meat”: products made from immortalized animal tumor cells growing in vats. The “plant substitute” meat replacements, such as Beyond Meat, are based on pea or soy protein. As such, they are NOT related to these lab-grown cancer cell projects. In addition, fake news websites are screaming that lab-grown meat (made of tumor cells) will give us cancer. There is no evidence that lab-grown meat will facilitate cancers. It is best not to make unwarranted claims, and my substack is not about making up sensationalized stuff.

  • The Bloomberg article explains that all “lab meat” is made of tumor cells. At the same time, USDA regulations forbid tumors in meat supply for humans. 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.” Or go vegetarian? A tough decision!What would YOU choose?Share

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