Fake Food Series: Cell Based, Lab Cultivated Meat - Courtesy of Bill Gates and Richard Branson
- ketogenicfasting
- Jan 28, 2022
- 2 min read
Updated: May 15
Inside The World's Largest Synthetic Meat Factory
A high-tech food revolution is simmering in the heart of Silicon Valley. 🌉 Upside Foods, a startup backed by big names like Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Tyson Foods, and Cargill (yes, the same Cargill under the Monsanto-linked ConAgra umbrella), has unveiled the largest synthetic meat facility in the world. 🤯
This first-of-its-kind prototype factory is not your average meatpacking plant. Think of a brewery—but instead of fermenting hops, it's cultivating pork chops and chicken breasts from animal cells. 🏭🧬
Here’s the recipe: take a few starter cells from a real animal, feed them nutrient-rich broth (mostly carbs from agricultural plant sources like GMO soy and corn—high in inflammatory omega-6s), and let them multiply in bioreactors for 10–12 days. What comes out is a paste-like biomass that’s then processed, shaped, and textured into what they claim resembles your favorite cuts of meat. 😬
Right now, producing just one pound of this “meat” rings in at an eye-watering $18,000. 💸 But Upside Foods aims to eventually bring that price down to $10–$20/lb, making it "competitive" with today's premium cuts. Will consumers bite? 🍽️
Their mission is to grow “real meat” without slaughter—an ethical pitch that’s hard to ignore.
But there’s more to chew on. 🤔 Many health-conscious eaters are alarmed by the reliance on ultra-processed methods, synthetic bio-nutrients, and the unknown long-term health impacts of these lab-grown foods. Especially considering that the waste and feed sources behind the process are largely unregulated and, yes—often GMO-derived.
As Comfort Keto and many clean-food advocates see it, this isn’t the future of food—it’s Frankenfood disguised as progress. 🍗⚠️
Are you ready to swap your grass-fed steak for a vat-grown simulacrum? Or does this brave new world of cell-cultured meat leave you craving something a little more... natural? 🌿🥩🍷
Follow the link to check out the video of this "science reality" factory...
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