“Let them eat meat.”
On August 18, 2019, the special report on climate change and land by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) describes plant-based diets as a major opportunity for mitigating and adapting to climate change ― and includes a policy recommendation to reduce meat consumption. “We don’t want to tell people what to eat,” says Hans-Otto Pörtner, an ecologist who co-chairs the IPCC’s working group on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. “But it would indeed be beneficial, for both climate and human health, if people in many rich countries consumed less meat, and if politics would create appropriate incentives to that effect.” Despite Pörtner’s politic equivocation, the UN and other “elites” do in fact want to tell us what to eat.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02409-7
Enter the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its allied “Great Reset” minions, according to whom a traditional whole food diet is not only “unsustainable” but “environmentally destructive;”
“… [the] Earth’s non-elite human inhabitants [must] ditch their “unsustainable” traditional whole food diets in favor of Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs) along with protein alternatives made from insects and created in labs.”
Notice this does not apply to the elites, only the non-elite.
But wait, exactly who is the WEF and why does their opinion matter? The WEF meets each year in Davos, one of the most exclusive and expensive ski resorts in the world, and features the most “A-list” of people you could ever imagine (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Big Pharma, JP Morgan, Big Oil, Big Tobacco, Big Agriculture, Xi Jinping, the Saudis, OPEC, Al Gore, Bono, Leonardo DiCaprio, and John Kerry, to name just a few, with Professor James Moriarty and Lord Voldemort as special guests). To some (the elites) the WEF is the oracle of salvation; to others it is the temple of hierocracy and hypocrisy.
“It’s not that the WEF is a Dr. Evil-esque Orwellian organization full of super villains, they just have a really warped way of looking at the world.”
The Great Resetters claim that animal foods in general, and organically produced ones in particular, must be replaced with crops genetically engineered for high yield and pest resistance, and protein alternatives made from insects, plants and synthetic biology (Petrie dish and test tube protein … yuck). They assert that life on earth cannot be sustained unless we transition to what amounts to an ultra-processed and highly unnatural diet. … Have they walked the aisles of any supermarket today or read any ingredient lists? We may have already arrived at their future.
“Anyone who knows anything about nutrition can see that everything about this proposed new food system is a disaster in the making. For starters, synthetic biology — meat and dairy alternatives — is junk food on steroids. They’re all highly processed, and ultra-processed foods are associated with increased calorie intake, weight gain, and chronic disease, including cognitive decline, while simultaneously promoting malnutrition,” says Dr. Joseph Mercola. …
Simply put, there are no benefits in replacing real meat with fake substitutes. Not for the environment, climate, human nutrition or animal welfare. It’s only hazards and false claims. So, if you value your health, you would do well to stay clear of all meat substitutes.
Mercola, Dr. Joseph, “Why Promoters of Great Reset Are Pushing Ultra-Processed Foods,” The Defender, September 13, 2022. https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/great-reset-ultra-processed-foods-cola/
The Great Resetter arguments and policy recommendations were thoroughly demolished in a paper published in the Journal of Cleaner Production on September 25, 2022:
“The findings highlight that environmental degradation associated with UPFs [ultra-processed foods] is of significant concern due to the substantial resources used in the production and processing of such products, and also because UPFs are superfluous to basic human needs …
“UPFs utilize persuasive marketing and are usually mass-produced using inexpensive ingredients to enable overconsumption through availability, hyper-palatability, poor satiety and displacing wholefoods in diets.
“A growing body of evidence reports that UPF consumption is associated with increased risk of overweight and obesity, cardiovascular diseases, type-2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, cancer, depression, and all-cause mortality, among others. It is plausible that this is caused by UPFs poor nutrient composition and degraded food matrices …
“A detailed understanding of the environmental impacts of UPFs is key to informing food policies and dietary guidance. This is pertinent because UPFs are frequently excluded from global and national guidelines and policy documents on sustainable food systems and diets. …
“Conclusion: Ultra-processed foods are fundamentally unsustainable products; they have been associated with poor health and social outcomes and require finite environmental resources for their production … UPFs are responsible for significant diet-related energy, [and] greenhouse gas emissions …”
Anastasiou, K., P. Baker, M. Hadjikakou, G.A. Hendrie, and M. Lawrence, “A conceptual framework for understanding the environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods and implications for sustainable food systems,” Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 368, 2022, 133155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133155.
In simplified terms, we are being sold a bill of goods by the oligarch elitists. The WEF advocacy of Frankenfood is not only damaging to our health, but its environmental consequences are much worse than producing real food, even when industrial agriculture (synthetic fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides) is included. However, do not expect any change … when faced with an untenable position, the elite just keep saying it longer and louder expecting eventually we will be browbeaten into submission.
Why the push for Frankenfood? As a young man my father gave me some advice, “to understand almost any issue, follow the money.”
Who are the big investors in Frankenfood? Breakthrough Energy Ventures, whose board includes tech billionaires Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Jack Ma, Sand Hill Angels, GreatPoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Obvious Corporation, Biz Stone, Tyson Foods, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Viking Global Investors, UBS, Li Kashing’s Horizons Ventures, Temasek Holding (Singapore), Sailing Capital (Hong Kong), Louis Dreyfus Co., Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd. (New Zealand), to name but a few. The single largest individual investor in Frankenfoods is Bill Gates, who also happens to be the single largest individual owner of agriculture land in the United States.
I doubt any A-lister or any of these investors have even ever eaten a Frankenburger, or even tried to do so.
“Once [the] tech giants have control of meat, dairy, cereals and oils, they will be the ones profiting from and controlling the food supply. Needless to say, the private companies that control the food supply will also end up controlling countries and entire populations. At the end of the day, that’s what this hoopla about “sustainable food systems” is all about. Dr. Joseph Mercola.
In a moment of seeming rational acknowledgment, Bill Gates said during an interview last week that scolding people about having nice things or eating meat will not solve the climate crisis. Gates made the comment on an episode of Bloomberg’s Zero podcast with host Akshat Rathi, which was published on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. Rathi had asked Gates if a "social and political revolution" was needed to compensate for technology’s shortcomings in addressing climate change.
"Anyone who says that we will tell people to stop eating meat, or stop wanting to have a nice house, and we'll just basically change human desires, I think that that's too difficult," Gates admitted.
What a contrast to Gates’ position just a year earlier that the wealthiest countries should switch to eating “100% synthetic beef” to help combat climate change.
“I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef,” Gates said when asked how to cut back on methane emissions. “You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time. Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation [Big Brother … does this sound like comments from Congress today?] to totally shift the demand.”
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/14/1018296/bill-gates-climate-change-beef-trees-microsoft/
For now speaking heresy, Gates must face the excommunication tribunal; Al Gore, John Kerry, Greta Thurnburg, Leonardo DiCaprio, Amy Klobuchar, and The Squad. Conviction foregone, Gates stands to be stripped of his exalted status and have his lifetime invitation to the World Economic Forum rescinded … no parking spot for his private jet.
Why Gates’ change in attitude? Can it be that the tea leaves are telling a different story? That the “Earth’s non-elite human inhabitants” are not buying what Gates, the WEF and the Great Resetters are selling? That they are voting with their pocketbooks?
“When it went public three years ago, Beyond Meat was heralded as the next big thing, a company that would make real meat become history. But the last few months have seen the company put through a tenderizer. Beyond Meat’s stock price hit record lows, it had to lay off staff, McDonald's decided to discontinue the vegan McPlant burger, and rumors of bankruptcy have become commonplace. …
But Beyond Meat is not alone. The entire synthetic meat industry is floundering. The plant-based company Motif announced massive layoffs. Kellogg’s announced plans to spin off
MorningStar Farms, its plant-based brand, due to the tough conditions in the synthetic meat industry. And a top executive from Conagra, the parent company of the fake meat brand Gardien, warned that the plant-based sector is oversaturated with new brands, telling Food Navigator, “There’s no way the space supports 20 manufacturers making burger patties.”
Fake meat was supposed to be the future, but it’s looking much more like a fad. …
There are many reasons why imitation meat is failing, but one key reason is that consumers are not going to give up better-tasting real meat products for ultra-processed soy patties that are less nutritious. Synthetic meat substitutes carry more sodium, sugar, and calories than real meat. They also include many artificial flavorings and fillers, such as methylcellulose. According to a survey of more than 300 nutritionists by my organization, the Center for Consumer Freedom, 73 percent of nutritionists do not recommend plant-based meat substitutes because they are ultra-processed. Instead, 39 percent recommended sticking with real meat while 34 percent reported that whole vegetables would be better than ultra-processed patties.
Beyond the sketchy ingredients listed on the label, several studies have taken a deeper look at the quality of the protein inside plant-based imitation meat products. Two separate studies revealed that plant-based protein is not absorbed into the body as well as meat-based protein. …
As Dr. Casey Means stated in a recent podcast, plant-based meats are “processed garbage” and the "food scandal of our time.” Health aside, the biggest problem with fake meat is its taste and texture. KFC’s Beyond Meat nuggets were compared to “fried erasers” in one food review. And while that review was particularly harsh, all fake meat reviews have a common theme: it almost tastes as good as the real thing. “Almost” doesn’t cut it for most Americans. They may swap pizza for a salad when the nutritional benefits are clear and the calorie count can’t even compete, but they’re never going to choose a less satisfying taste in exchange for a less nutritious option.
Beyond Meat may be the most public loser of the plant-based meat era, but it will not be the only one. The public’s lost its appetite.
James Bowers, “What Happened to Plant-Based Meat?” TownHall, October 3, 2022. https://townhall.com/columnists/jamesbowers/2022/10/03/what-happened-to-plantbased-meat-n2613888
Sorry, Bill, all of those investments in Frankenfood are looking shaky.