{"id":308772,"date":"2025-05-16T06:58:46","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T06:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308772"},"modified":"2025-05-18T07:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T07:53:00","slug":"kit-knightly-lab-grown-meat-could-erase-the-need-for-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=308772","title":{"rendered":"Kit Knightly – \u201cLab-grown meat could erase the need for farming\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian May 15, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Professor Luke O\u2019Neill of Trinity College gave an interview to the Show Me the Science<\/a> podcast a few days ago, praising the rise of \u201clab-grown\u201d or \u201ccultivated\u201d meat, and predicting it would spell the end of animal farming in the future.<\/p>\n

To emphasise the supposed need for this transition, the biochemist cited the widely-repeated clich\u00e9 that farming animals produces 12% of the world\u2019s carbon emissions:<\/p>\n

\u201cEnvironmentally it\u2019s very important because it turns out 12% of greenhouse gases are coming off farm animals,\u201d<\/p>\n

Going on to laud lab-grown meat\u2019s ethical superiority to real meat:<\/p>\n

\u201cOne-in-five people in Europe are vegetarians, they\u2019ve asked them, and many of them have said, \u2018Yes, of course [we would eat lab grown meat], we\u2019re vegetarians because we don\u2019t like the cruelty that happens when farm animals are being killed and we\u2019re eating them\u2019 [\u2026] If you can make a steak out of a vat and no animals have been harmed by this in any way at all, why wouldn\u2019t you eat it?\u201d<\/p>\n

He adds, perhaps jokingly, that farmers should \u201cturn [their] farms into vats full of cells growing to make meat.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019m not singling Professor O\u2019Neill for special criticism on this. He is just one of many straws in the wind on lab-grown meat, which has grown in prominence in the \u201cfood revolution\u201d narrative to the point of over-taking edible insects as the \u201calternative protein\u201d du jour<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Only last month, the media thrilled at the production of the \u201cworld\u2019s largest cultivated chicken nugget\u201d<\/a><\/em>. Which, incidentally, looks exactly as appetizing as you\u2019d expect:<\/p>\n

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The Open University tells us<\/a> that lab-grown meat will \u201cdrive forward medical research\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Israel is already selling cultivated \u201csteaks\u201d<\/a>, and other cultivated meat producers already have products \u201cunder review\u201d<\/a> in New Zealand, Australia, the US, the EU, Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea.<\/p>\n

It is already available in the UK as pet food, where the MSM are giving it glowing reviews<\/a>. The UK is expected to approve it for human consumption within two years<\/a>, with grants handed out to companies to \u201cfast-track\u201d the process<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But why? Why would the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d want<\/em> to \u201cerase the need for farming\u201d?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like farming and farmers exist independently of the global exploitation machine. A huge percentage of meat-producing farms are owned by massive international conglomerates, growing meat as quickly as possible to squeeze through nugget-shaped moulds for a million fast-food chains.<\/p>\n

Why would they want to murder this cash cow? (Pun very much intended)<\/p>\n

If the proffered answers of \u201cethics\u201d and \u201cclimate change\u201d aren\u2019t already ringing hollow to you, then you\u2019re not paying attention.<\/p>\n

The only answer that seems to satisfy is \u201ccontrol\u201d. One more filtration layer between you and independence.<\/p>\n

After all, anyone can raise their own chickens, pigs or cows \u2013 it\u2019s just a matter of space. Even if you\u2019re lacking the resources to become self-sufficient, small local farms are an option that avoids Big Farmer.<\/p>\n

But if lab-grown meat replaces natural meat, that makes corporations your only source for meat at all. It means the chemical content and nutritional value can be controlled, and makes scarcity easy to engineer as well.<\/p>\n

And perhaps more importantly, it is pretend, it is unreal.<\/p>\n

It is one more process that removes humans from a grounding in the real world.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s possible to overstate how much of the post-Covid agenda is about an all-out assault on reality, with the final goal of making almost everything people experience \u2013 even down to the food they eat \u2013 fake.<\/p>\n

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Is this why the UK government is coming down so hard on British farmers? Do they think that scientific processes to produce artificial meat and dairy substitutes will supersede natural farming? If so we suggest that they are in for a nasty surprise <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":308774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308772"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308778,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308772\/revisions\/308778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}