This sounds much like many of the Warmist prescriptions
(WRAL) For hamburgers that cost more than $300,000 to produce, you might expect fries and a shake too.
But this is no ordinary burger being served to two volunteer taste-testers in London on Monday. This meat was grown in a laboratory from stem cells of cattle.
Just to be clear, the did not use embryonic stem cells, which tend to be monumental failures
Mark Post, whose team at Maastricht University in the Netherlands developed the burger after five years of research, hopes that making meat in labs could eventually help solve the food crisis and fight climate change.
Want to solve the food crisis? Research square foot gardening. Teach this skill to people in areas with food distribution issues and you’ll see a huge improvement in the fight against world hunger.
Wait UncleDan, you want people to learn something? And, even, to learn to grow their own food?
How can you be so heartless? How can you be so racist? How dare you sir!!!
That’s the reason we have FOOD STAMPS, SIR!! So people don’t have to get off their butts and do something. We give them free money for free food so that they don’t have to have “food-worries” like that.
What if just one of those food gardens got a snail? HUH? DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT MR. TEACH-THEM-TO-GROW?!!?! One snail can ruin an entire crop of food. And then where would they be? What gov’t resources, gov’t relief agencies, gov’t supported democrat-controlled 3rd parties would there be to help those troubled people through that dark snail-infested time? NONE!! WHY?!?!??! Because you failed to show them the way. The RIGHT way.
BAH.
Teach a man to fish, and he eats one fish. Teach a man how to call up his welfare application, and he can eat like a king.
(on a more serious note, have any of you yet seen these so-called “burgers”? They’re like playdough mixed with congealed pink gravy. or, think of Placental fluid.)
Only one problem Uncle Dan, The Food Cartel ain’t gonna let you grow your own food.
The screaming from citizens got rid of the Commerce Clause (and lessened but did not eliminate red tape for the small guy) just as it did in the animal welfare act of 1998. HOWEVER the Commerce Clause was later added to the animal welfare act in 2002 after attention was directed elsewhere.
When the USDA was trying to implement Animal ID as NAIS, they wanted farmers to get a ‘Premise ID’ that is permanently affixed to your land deed. As Derry Brownfield explained this essentially transfers ownership of your farm to the government.(see last five paragraphs of his article OUR LAND – COLLATERAL FOR THE NATIONAL DEBT)
Despite farmers screaming HELL NO!!! and 5000 comments to that effect on the Federal Register. (Yeah I read them) The USDA kept trying (and getting shot down) until via a bit of subtrafuge (Commenting was munged-up) they got Animal ID ‘Passed’ via the Federal Register. Congress had nothing to say of course.
Now the focus is on gardens:
Welcome to Utah’s Garden Challenge: … Whether you grow a tomato in a pot, a row in a community garden, have backyard gardens, a CSA or working fruit and vegetable farm, we want to hear from you because you are an important resource as a food producer.
It doesn’t sit well with me either and the designation is a bit ‘Wishy-washy’
Just before the USDA tried to shove NAIS and Premise ID down everyone’s throat, the USDA sent out Ag Census Forms to anyone who subscribed to a horse or livestock magazine or gardening catalog. (Where the hell did they get that listing of names?) If you didn’t fill it out you got a second form and then a threatening letter and finally a phone call. (BTDT) The forms were several pages long and wanted a full listing of everything you owned, your livestock what you grew on how many acres…..
Now tell me why in the name of the ten thousand little gods would the USDA want a data base of everyone growing food? (Think IBM and the Nazi link)
Just add in the Executive Orders that allow the US Government to confiscate your garden and everything else or the Red Tape that makes practically every business in the USA a real gamble with your wealth and an excellent source of government funding.
People get their danders up in arms when it comes to GMO vegetables. How happy are they going to be about this??
Also, pink slime, anyone?
At least pink-slime was based on meat. Before it was de-proteinized by acids.
I just think of McD’s meats like I do hot dogs in general. There’s meat in there somewhere.
All stem cell research was based on embryonic stem cell work. It was the foundation upon which all rests
Oh good grief. No, John, it’s not. There are many other types, including adult and placental. And all those others have created actual cures, treatments, and medicines without all the tumors that crop up from embryonic research. Which is why just about only government funded researchers work with embryonic, because private won’t waste time and money on worthless ventures.