Dennis Prager argues against lab-grown meat, describing the expensive, energy-intensive process of growing cells in bioreactors. He names Bill Gates and Richard Branson as backers and says the industry faces serious commercial and funding problems.
Since the first lab-grown burger was demonstrated more than a decade ago, billions of pounds— that's not weight, that's money— billions of pounds have been thrown at the technology. It involves extracting cells derived from animal fetuses and cultivating the cells in sterile bioreactors, a process that takes a lot of energy and expense. The resulting slurry— what's a slurry? Concoction? Is that a British term? You know it because you lived in England for a while? So you're cheating. Is then stretched and shaped to resemble animal tissue. Although the backers, who include Bill Gates— Bill Gates is truly one of the most destructive human beings living. I see him in monstrous terms, actually. The hubris he has because he has made staggering sums of money is unbelievable. He sees himself in godlike terms. And Richard Branson understandably preferred the euphemism cultivated meat. Oh my God, that is a euphemism. It's not cultivated meat. It's lab-grown meat. All right, then it was so— and it's not even meat. I don't know what it is. We were told this innovation would transform how we eat and farm, but this month leading industry figures admitted the game was all but up, which is where you come in. There is a valley of death we're not going to cross as an industry without a massive infusion of public investment. Admitted an executive. This is exactly everything that the Greens have wanted. This is all pushed by the Greens because farming is supposedly a great emitter of carbon dioxide. So the staggering sums of money that they have demanded because the market doesn't want their, their product.
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