NEBRASKA GOVERNOR BANS LAB-GROWN MEAT FROM STATE PURCHASES
This story came from W.G., and it alarmed me because of the way certain seemingly isolated "trends" can be combined with others to create truly nightmare scenarios, and in today's USSA, I have no doubt "they" are already hard at work doing so, and figuring out how to "market" those combined "trends." The story itself is bad enough: the growing trend to grow "synthesized 'food products'" has reached out to engulf synthetic "meat", which has already been combined with "3D printing", as regular readers of this site know. The "reason" offerred by such globaloooneyists as Baal Gates for promoting this newest trend of synthetic, "lab-grown meat" is to cut back dramatically on the amount of cattle, and thereby to curb "cattle flatulence" and greenhouse gasses and so on.
Well, Nebraska's governor Jim Pillen is not having it:
Governor bans Nebraska agencies from buying ‘Lab-Grown Meat’
Here's the gist of the story:
Gov. Jim Pillen (R) said, according to a Friday press release, that “Nebraska farmers and ranchers, like those here today, are committed to producing the best food products anywhere.”
“We feed the world and we save the planet more effectively and more efficiently than anybody else and I will defend those practices with my last breadth,” Pillen continued.
Pillen’s signing of the order follows Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) signing of a similar bill earlier this year banning lab-grown meat in his state. He said at the time that “Florida is fighting back against the global elite’s plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals.”
But then comes an important paragraph:
“In a state that purportedly prides itself on being a land of freedom and individual liberty, its government is now telling consumers what meat they can or cannot purchase,” Good Meat continued in a post on social platform X.
So now all of a sudden it's all about freedom. Under normal circumstances, I'd agree with the synthetic meat company; it is about that and people should be able to choose what they want to put into their own body, from GMOs to the latest trendy, faddy, and unproven injections for viruses manufactured in China. But in case you haven't noticed lately, virtually every product in the grocery store now says it is made from "bio-engineered food products" or some similar catch-all phrase, which could mean just about anything, and even encompass those latest trendy, faddy, and unproven injections for viruses manufactured in China. In short, the freedom being advocated by the lab-meat company would be a good thing if it were accompanied by a complete transparency in food labeling, and if the food supply chain were not already disrupted in ways to make it possible to buy meat that is not tainted by such products. Believe me, I know. I attempt to purchase ground bison from my local grocer all the time, largely because bison as I know grazes on open grasslands (yes, I'm from South Dakota, where the largest American bison herd still roams freely in the grasslands around the southern Black Hills.) Purchasing it is hit and miss, and I simply don't trust much else. And as for the "bio-engineered food products", that might also include der Hochklaus Freeherr von Blohschwab und Bloviation's "bugs" as well. We're dealing with a government so corrupted by by corporations and their profit motive that transparency and honesty in labeling is not to be taken for granted. After all, just recall what we were told about the experimental injections. The adverse reactions continue, and continue to be ignored. Big Pharma, after all, continues to pay a great percentage of the advertising fees for the propatainment "media" which continues to "inform" the public. It is small wonder why the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has made declining American health a major issue. He deserves some praise for trying to bring it to people's attention.
But it isn't really about freedom at all. It's about producing a lab-grown meat cheaper than a rancher can, and to bring it to market cheaper than the meat processing plants can. It's about driving the local supplier out of business because he cannot compete with the shiny (cheaper) lab. So we're back to the GMO problem once again: GMOs were touted as driving down costs (as they were "immune" to pests) and increasing yields. Sure the GMO seeds might cost a bit more initially, but over the long haul, it would be cheaper and more productive. The doctrine of "substantial equivalence" was born, which doctrine says essentially that "if it looks like corn or a potato and tastes like corn or a potato, it is corn and a potato" for all intentions and purposes of the law, except, of course, for the patent on the seeds that produced it. But then the picture began to sour: no long term intergenerational tests were conducted on the environmental and human health costs of the GMO crops. Then the university studies began to appear documenting actual declining yields of GMO fields and increasing costs. I submit that there may be similar environmental and health costs to such synthetic meats that are not currently known. America conducted a big experiment beginning in the 1970s and continuing to now as cane sugar began to be replaced in sodas, and commercial deserts with high fructose corn syrup. It was another case of a proto-typical doctrine of "substantial equivalence" since "new Coke" tasted "just like" the old one, and no health costs were documented, and we are now as a country obese, overweight, with an incidence of chronic diseases like diabetes that is not normal by any stretch of the imagination.
There is, however, another danger that emerges, one that Governor Pillen and other governors must become aware of: the danger of combining this push toward GMOs and lab-grown meats with other favored projects of Mr. Globalooney. Consider what happens, for example, when the corporate coupons known as "central bank digital currencies" team up with GMOs. It will start easily enough: "rewards" in the form of price discounts or rebates will be offered to those who use their digital blips to purchase synthetic meats. As the amount of normal meat declines as ranchers are put out of business, the price of normal meat rises until the point that only the rich and super-rich can afford it. Everyone else gets the "Ersatz Ground Beeflike Product," just add water and stir. Then, one day, everyone wakes up and discovers that the source of meat is now in the hands of a few laboratories in Looneyfornia. And all of this hiding behind a new lack of transparency in food ingredient labeling.
So, call me unconvinced. Not all technological progress really is beneficial progress, and I strongly suspect that this is the case with the push for synthetic meats. I for one commend Governor Pillen for taking the action he did, but I would urge that the mandarins of Globalooney need to be watched very carefully. Some attempt to combine the "synthetic foods" agenda will be made, to make them even more ubiquitous and palatable.
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