Guest Post by Kit Knightly
We’re a week into this year’s UN climate summit, COP27, and the various agenda planned to roll out on the back of it are coming into focus.
None more so than the autumn offensive in the establishment’s war on food. There’s a big push on that front.
Today was “Adaptation and Agriculture” day at COP27, and you probably don’t need me to tell you what was on the agenda – a lot of talk of “sustainability”, “innovation”, “climate-friendly production” and so on.
As usual with these global meetings, the closed-door discussions and po-faced newspeak presentations are accompanied by a wave of synchronized propaganda.
One angle this propaganda is taking is that COP27 “refused to discuss” meat or farming in general, and therefore those people insisting we should kill all the cows in the world and eat lab-grown paste instead are somehow rebels speaking truth to power.
That’s how George Monbiot is arranging the narrative for his piece in the Guardian.
It’s nonsense, of course. COP27 literally had an entire day dedicated to discussing farming, “food security” and “innovations” to “reduce methane” (that’s code for “getting rid of cows” by the way).
Further, COP27 is being used to launch the UN’s new Food and Agriculture for Sustainable Transformation (FAST) initiative. Which, according to Forbes, will promote:
[A] shift towards sustainable, climate-resilient, healthy diets would help reduce health and climate change costs by up to US$ 1.3 trillion while supporting food security in the face of climate change.
As well as the AIM initiative, which intends to channel 8 BILLION dollars into “farming innovations”.
But, in another example of the fake binary, while COP27 members were inside discussing “adapting agriculture”, “protestors” were outside demanding they discuss adapting agriculture.
The protesters even used the platform to announce the launch of a new campaign “Reboot Food” which assures us that all we need to feed the world is giant nuclear-powered fermenting vats:
The cornerstone idea is swapping animal agriculture, where possible, for a technology called precision fermentation, which would involve brewing yeasts and bacteria to make protein. It could create biologically identical animal proteins using genetically engineered micro-organisms fermented in tanks. These factories would be powered by solar, wind and nuclear.
That’s just the broadest most ambitious “food reform” propaganda coming out in the last few days though, there’s a lot more where that came from.
Earlier this week it was announced that synthetic meat company GoodMeat would be unveiling their new lab-grown meat products at the COP27 summit.
On a similar theme, EuroNews asks:
Companies are making slaughter-free meat – so why isn’t it for sale in shops?
It’s not just lab-grown meat or nuclear-powered yeast paste hitting the headlines either, edible insect stories are suddenly all over the news again.
The I has a piece from a “journalist” who didn’t like the idea of eating insects, but then tried it for a week and found out it was actually great.
The academic journal PNAS published an article unsubtly titled “How to convince people to eat insects”, which suggests we need to “create a new norm”.
Healthline News has an article “What Science Says About Eating Insects”. Spoiler alert – “science” says that eating insects is great and everybody should do it as much as possible. Who knew, right?
At the same time, the UK’s Food Standards Agency published a startingly well-timed report on the safety of edible insects (turns out they’re safe, shocking isn’t it?)
But the prize of the clumsiest propaganda of the week goes to the Independent, which boasts an article with the headline:
Eww world order: How the right-wing became obsessed with eating bugs
This opens with a screed about how lunatic right-wing conspiracy theorists think we’re all being programmed to eat insects…and then seamlessly blends into half-a-dozen paragraphs about how eating insects is actually really good for you though, and good for the planet too:
The reality is that there are a multitude of good reasons to eat insect protein, not least the environmental impact. Breeding insects such as crickets and grasshoppers requires less feed, land and water than farming traditional livestock like pigs and cows, and results in the production of much less greenhouse gas.
Great job guys, real smooth.
UN summits – especially climate summits – always provide a little sneak preview of the upcoming narratives. And while “food reform” may not be the only, or even the biggest, item on the agenda…it’s definitely a major part of the plan. And it’s probably coming soon.
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Ever notice that all of this alternative meat is hardly ever bought except by brainwashed college kids, vegans and suburban women that look as dessicated as beef jerky? Even during “The ‘Rona” when goods were in short supply it was left on the shelves. Also:
As Al Swearingin said in deadwood it might have a bit of a human aftertaste like Wu’s pigs.
Best things abour “Deadwood” was the website that, on Monday AM, listed the total # & type of curse words.
That show was too degenerate for me to stomach.
If you are promoting “lab grown meat”, why use a stock photo of real meat?
Kit isn’t promoting it … he’s writing about it … and very negatively, too …
The photo of the Buick always comes with a broad. The three-dimensional car doesn’t. Selling the sizzle, not the steak.
Are honest people worse at propaganda?
To ask the question is to answer it.
https://esgcongress.com/en/cop27
I like the names that support at the bottom, it’s too funny.
I just watch another video on nature based solution and the speaker was impressive
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emmanuelle-Cohen-Shacham
EVERY FUCKING TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Netherlands has proven indoor hydroponics, farming with an urban water-pipe layout system, works. THAT is the innovation which is needed, and it is highly cost effective. Now if they want to add desalinization and wind and solar backup power assistance to these water re-use farm warehouses of the future, that can be done as well. Instead, they are mental cases and mentally challenged. What embarrassments to humanity they are.
If all you plan on eating is salad, by all means go hydroponic.
Okay.
And, just like greenhouse grown vegetables like tomatoes — there’s no taste … just a fake tomato …
No … I’ll pass … I choose real food …
And, by the way, they’re not ’embarrassments to humanity’ … they’re threats to humanity …
Let them eat Yellow Cake.
Let them eat Condoleeza Rice.
A couple of words in pedo0joe style to wef and their bugs.
Hey, Schwabbo, go fly a chitin!
(Get it?)
So you can 3D print meat? Sound’s delicious. People like myself will always eat real meat, the globe is crawling with it. Colorado Artist knows how to feed his family without a grociery store, there are lessons to be learned. One must get in the right frame of mind and understand that all natural meat is good for food, when I fish, I eat the fish I catch with gratitude regardless of species, the only exception for me is cannibalism. I have my preference of meats but in a time of hunger that goes out the window. Trying to make people like me eat what you think I should eat is a fools errand that can only end in tragedy for all involved.
Got some “Beyond Burger” a few weeks ago for a taste test. Didn’t pass.
I always wondered what that tastes like, I could never bring myself to try it. Something about the “beyond meat” name turns me off. I can make a pretty good vegie burger but I’m not trying to mask it or pass it off as meat. It just tastes good once in a while, sort of like falafel burgers.
Bite your hand or when you get a cut, put it in your mouth. LOL
That’s gross, unless you cook your hand first.
One article I read about Beyond meat said, the author finishes with, I hope it’s just a coincidence but, their main headquarters and plants are all very close to abortion clinics. The first time I heard them mention Beyond meat, my inner voice was. That’s Solyent Green. I saw the movie and I ain’t touching it.
“John Day” provided a comment at The Automatic Earth today that makes several good points about climate history….
I’m always in this awkward position of believing in global warming, CO2, methane, other greenhouse-gasses, tipping points of melting polar ice caps and methane clathrates, but not being so worried about those things, compared to other things that would be better candidates to kill most of us. 536 ws purportedly “the worst year to be alive”, likely due to a super-volcano erupting and darkening the sun for a year and a half, ruining crops, making it cold, and bringing out the worst in humans, which is ghastly.
536 kicked-off the “Late Antiquity Little Ice Age”, which was likely the end of the Anasazi people in Mesa Verde.
From around 1300 to 1850 the northern hemisphere had “The Little Ice Age”, with some very cold years, which were probably due to volcanic eruptions causing cooling. This is much better recorded, and includes the Black-Plague years.
Since 1850, California has had a lot of nice weather, but we find out that was an anomaly. We assume that so much which is pleasant and agreeable in our world is the normal baseline…
The largest threat to most people is being killed by other people, which is well documented when weather and crops are bad in history. We have such a vast and intricate food production and distribution system, using 10 calories of fossil fuel for every one calorie eaten, that we are unfathomably vulnerable compared to other periods in history. Most of us would be dead within 3 months if all the electricity went off and stayed off.
Thank you for considering the context that life is usually far more difficult than we have known it in our own years, and that this best-of-all times is not the baseline. Don’t get sold a scam. Learn basic human living, especially vegetable gardening, walking and bicycling. I’m grateful to have been able to do all of the things, go all of the places, know and help all of the people that I have in my life. Now that I realize that this has been the best of all times, I feel a responsibility to help all of us go forward gracefully, without face-planting from the next curveball that the universe throws our way.
World War-3 has started. It’s different from the first two, as you have noticed. The cause is about the same. Power elites are in a power struggle as the economy goes through big changes. They all need to get richer, to protect what they already own, and to get rid of some of their rivals and most of us useless-eaters.
That being said, a lot of them are probably not expecting a micronova event, or even Scotty losing our shields for a few decades.
Try to outlive them. Keep your head down.
This kind of an event will clearly have lots of human survivors, due to location, good fortune and preparation, but they will be a minority of humanity.
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Since plants require CO2 for photosynthesis, and humans and animals depend on plants for food, CO2 is necessary for the survival of life on earth.
Summit Carbon Solutions project will be good for our environment. This carbon capture and storage project will have the capacity to prevent the release of 12 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere every year, or the equivalent of removing the annual CO2 emissions of 2.6 million vehicles from our roads.
I occasionally eat fake hamburgers. They are not “lab grown” they’re just soy and grains. Non-GMO soy and grains. Why is that not good enough? Why do we need this lab shit? I twice tried that Quorn stuff that is a lab grown fungus. Got very ill. Couldn’t get any food down for 12 days. Lost 20lbs in one week. Looked it up, my experience is not uncommon. Lab grown meat is unhealthy garbage.