Fake Food Series: 🍽️ Mammoth Meatballs? A Mammoth-Size Joke! 🍽️

Why did the mammoth meatball get a standing ovation?

Because it was 99.99% sheep and 100% B.S. 🐑💩

Lab-grown "mammoth" made from public DNA, costs $15 million, and still not for sale?

Guess even fake meat has an inflated ego and prehistoric prices! 🦣💸

A $15 Million Lab-Grown Joke Served with a Side of Climate Hype 🌍💸

Lately, it seems like every day brings a new sensational clown show. Well, buckle up because here's the latest act... No, it’s not about pronouns. It's all about saving the planet... supposedly. 🌍

🦣 MAMMOTH MEATBALLS 🦣

Introducing the Mammoth Meatball — a lab-grown meatball that weighs in at a hefty 14 oz! (Just like the giant mammoths that roamed the earth, right?) But hold your applause—this massive meatball comes with a massive price tag too. 💰

At a staggering $1 million per ounce, this meaty marvel costs a whopping $15 million. Talk about inflation! 😱

MAMMOTH MEATBALLS!

🤡 Welcome to the Big Clown Show 🤡

Frozen remains of the mighty woolly mammoth are sometimes found in the Arctic permafrost, and scientists have used these ancient remains to sequence the mammoth genome.

But here’s the twist—an Australian startup called Vow is culturing meat in the lab based on publicly available mammoth DNA (not actual mammoth cells). 🧬

They’ve managed to produce 400 grams of this so-called "mammoth meatball," and guess what? They just secured $15 million in funding to keep the madness going. Wow! 💸

A $15 Million Lab-Grown Joke Served with a Side of Climate Hype 🌍💸

🧐 The Great Deception: Lab-Grown Meat

But hold on—this is more of a sideshow than science. This "mammoth meatball" is actually a mash-up of lab-grown lamb meat and a tiny fragment of mammoth DNA.

Yep, they didn’t even have frozen mammoth tissue to work with! They simply downloaded the mammoth DNA from a public database. 🧬🐑

As one of the project's “scientists” (and we use that term lightly), Ernst Wolvetang from the University of Queensland, put it:"From a genomic point of view, it’s only one gene that is mammoth among 25,000 sheep genes." 🙄

Vow claims their mission is to normalize lab-grown meat and make food production more “planet-friendly.” Sounds like they’re doing the re-thinking for us, huh? 🤔

🚫 Not for Sale... Yet 🚫

Surprise, surprise — this "mammoth meatball" isn’t even available for purchase! Vow is still figuring out its safety profile and is hoping to get approval in Singapore for selling lab-grown quail meat soon. 🦆

🌱 The Climate Crisis Smokescreen 🌱

The pitch for lab-grown meat? It’s supposed to help fight the so-called "climate crisis" by reducing the need to slaughter animals. They claim that livestock farming contributes to a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. 🤥

Let’s break down that claim:

🔋 EPA’s data shows that in 2019, the largest source of greenhouse gases in the US came from burning fossil fuels for electricity, heat, and transportation (not livestock!).

🌾 Agriculture (including livestock) accounted for just 10% of US emissions, and livestock specifically is only 2.5% of the total emissions.

In 2019, livestock specifically accounted for just 2.5% of the total emissions.

🌾 Agriculture (including livestock) accounted for just 10% of US emissions, and livestock specifically is only 2.5% of the total emissions.

🌍 The Real Culprits 🌍

• Agricultural soils (like fertilizers and irrigation) are responsible for half of emissions from agriculture (5% of total US emissions).

• Livestock accounts for just 2.5% of emissions in the US.

So, the idea that livestock farming is the big bad in climate change is seriously misleading. 🧐

Conclusion: 

🧐 This whole "Mammoth Meatball" stunt is just a PR gimmick wrapped in environmental claims. It’s about time we start asking the tough questions. 💭

For more insights on this meatball madness, check out the full article here:

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