Scientists and Bureaucrats are Playing With Our Food Supply
We have entered a time when we cannot be entirely sure of where the food that we are eating has come from or even how it has been processed. This is not something that most people will spend a lot of time thinking about, and that is probably exactly where the devil would like us to be and to stay. In Canada, we have enjoyed a strong supply of food from sources that have been predictable and safe; until now.
In November I came across an article [a] that stated that Health Canada had recently made changes to the regulations around "novel foods", that is, new foods. This change was to remove the meat from cloned pigs and cows from the novel foods list, meaning that it is now possible to sell this cloned meat with no labelling specifying that it is cloned and not naturally grown. From what I could glean, this decision was reached not by any rigorous scientific study of the meat or by talking with the public about how we feel about cloned meat, but merely by reading reports from the United States, Europe and Japan in which they decided that cloned meat should not need to be labelled as such in the grocery coolers.
I have a problem with cloning in general, as it is simply mankind trying to play God. Animals were made to procreate in a specific manner, like with like, and there doesn't seem to be a good reason why mankind should be playing around with this in the ways that we are. It appears that the only benefit to farmer's raising cloned meat is to increase positive traits or decrease negative traits in their herds more quickly.
What happens is that the farmer can identify his ideal cow or pig and then pay to have that specific animal cloned, making a supposed exact copy of his ideal animal. The farmer can actually have one, two, a dozen or a hundred such clones made in the lab; whatever he wants in order to make his herd "perfect", with all of the good traits and none of the bad traits. The idea is that the farmer would then use these cloned ideal animals as his breeding stock. The government has released a report on their "study" (I use that word loosely) into this new food production technology [b].
Theoretically, these animals would be used in breeding for years which would make the meat products available from these specific animals, upon their slaughter, of not sufficient quality to enter the human food market. For those of you who do not know this, as an animal gets older, the quality of the meat goes down.
However, there does not seem to be any control measure put in place to actually prevent these animals from entering the human food supply, other than a mention that "in many cases", cloned animals are considered "research animals" which should not enter the feed supply of animals; I did not notice any such restriction regarding the human food supply. I did find the following sentence in the report under section 2.3.4; "Most animal clones will be used primarily as breeding stock and
their disposal into the food and feed chain will occur later in the life
of the animal, long past the normal slaughter age. There is a lack of
empirical data on animal health and food and feed safety for livestock
clones of advanced age, although, unhealthy animals would be excluded
from the food chain and may be excluded from the feed chain."[b] (emphasis added)
Under the current "plan", the animals that would be entering the food supply are those who are bred from these cloned animals in the normal ways of sexual reproduction, largely through artificial insemination, which has been in large use in animal agriculture for many years already. As I read through the Government of Canada report that I reference several times in this article, and which is footnoted at the bottom of this article, I find some interesting information that makes me wonder about the value of this research and the value that it adds to agriculture.
According to the report, in section 2.4.3, only 10% of cloned animals result in live animals, and that 10% can still have mutations and abnormalities that do not exist in the original animal. This tells me that this technology is far from perfected or even properly understood, yet there is already a push to include this technology in the production of food for human consumption. I think we're getting ahead of ourselves here, don't you?
There is even a section (2.3.2) that talks about restrictions on how "animal clones which are unhealthy or possess gross deformities" are to be disposed of. They are not allowed to be rendered into use in livestock feed due to the experimental status of the animal, yet that status does not prohibit the use of a research animal to be used to breed offspring for use in the human food supply. How does this make sense?
In section 2.3.3 of the Government of Canada report; "Linkage of Animal Health with Food/Feed Safety", the author(s) goes to some length to discuss how, just as any unhealthy animal is not allowed to enter the human food supply, this same directive applies to cloned animals and their offspring as well, and as such, there should be no concerns about the security of our food supply. The paragraphs that caught my attention though, had some more interesting things to say about the failings of this technology at this time. Those paragraphs read as follows;
"Although healthy animal clones can be produced using the SCNT
(somatic cell nuclear transfer) process, there is a higher incidence of health problems associated with
SCNT cloning technologies than with natural breeding and other ARTs (assisted reproductive techniques).
This higher incidence of health problems does not increase the
confidence that foods derived from animal clones are as safe as their
natural bred counterparts or as those produced through other ARTs.
However, under the current regulations, any animals with signs of health
problems or deformities would not be authorized for slaughter for human
food and may not be authorized for rendering for livestock feed.
"On
the other hand, based on the empirical data reviewed, the progeny of
animal clones do not display a higher incidence of health problems than
naturally bred animals or those produced through other ARTs. This fact
adds to the confidence that foods derived from the progeny of animal
clones are as safe as foods derived from naturally bred animals and
those produced through other ARTs. All progeny of clones would be also
subject to the current Canadian regulations for slaughter and
rendering."[b]
So what this is telling us is that, cloned animals tend to have health issues or other abnormalities at a greater rate than animals produced by normal and natural means, but the offspring of cloned animals that are bred through normal sexual practices do not appear to have those health issues or abnormalities. But we are to be assured that any animal that is not healthy will not enter the human food supply.
Right.
Also, we should all be completely put at ease by what the report tells us in section 3.1, which is the "Lifecycle analysis" section of the report. This section tells us that, although the cloned animal that manages to survive the cloning process when 90% of the rest of the attempts failed to survive may have physical mutations or other abnormalities as a result of the cloning process, it appears that the natural sexual reproduction that this animal will be used for seems to remove these abnormalities through what are called "control points" in the natural breeding process. These "control points" are the same as those that are in play in a natural, sexual reproduction cycle. We don't know how many naturally conceived animals are spontaneously aborted due to these control points, or how many are born with mutations, but we should just trust the government on this. So, you know, this is completely safe, and everything.
I'm sorry; I'm not convinced.
For reference, here is the included chart that walks through the different stages of the cloning process and the different filters and outcomes that those filters will result in:
This chart does not instill confidence for me.
I notice at the bottom right of this chart, that next to the 'Healthy animal clone' box, there is an arrow that leads to a box labelled "Intended use in breeding", but that box then points to the final box, which reads "Direct: Human food / Indirect" Livestock Feed". So that seems to indicate that even the cloned animal itself is potentially going to enter the human food supply, and not only it's progeny that go through the vigorous filtering process that natural conception provides.
So let me break this down for you: scientists and bureaucrats have decided that a farmer can choose his best animal to be cloned, a process that results in a 90% rate of failure; the resultant animal that actually survives to adulthood and that is healthy and whole enough to reproduce in the natural manner is allowed to do so, regardless of other non-health altering mutations or abnormalities, trusting that the natural breeding cycle will eliminate further mutations from occurring; that resulting animal is then raised up and submitted into the human food supply if there are no blatant and obvious mutations or abnormalities that are observed; but if there are obvious mutations or abnormalities that are observed in the progeny of the cloned animal, that animal will then be diverted to either the livestock feed supply, thereby feeding mutated meat proteins to other human food chain animals, or it will be otherwise disposed of and destroyed.
Do you still have faith in our human food supply network? I sure don't.
And you know what? I still don't see the benefit to society as a whole in continuing this experiment. The animal still has to go through the normal stages of development and growth, so all the normal costs of animal husbandry are still involved. There will not be cheaper meat on the shelves as a result of this. There will not be more meat on the shelves as a result of this. And the meat on the shelves will not be better as a result of this; in fact, it may actually end up being harmful to us in the long run, but studies haven't gone that far yet. So what, exactly is the point of all of this??
I have one suggested answer to that. This is to acclimatize us to the idea of unnatural meat being sold to us on grocery shelves, and that meat will not have specific labelling to inform us of what we are buying and eating. And there is a further purpose to this.
I want to invite you to visit the Good Food Institute (GFI) website for yourself; particularly the page on "The Science of Cultivated Meat" [c]. I'm not going to delve into this topic to the same extent as I have the topic of cloned meat, but this is the direction that the Elites want to take our food production.
In short, this is meat that is grown in a laboratory; not in a pasture, on a farm or even in a feedlot. There is no healthy animal that a person has poured their labour into to protect and to nourish and to raise up as food for their neighbours. There is no concern for the quality of the meat and the diet that produces the best quality meat. This is meat made in a factory for the purpose of pure profit and, nefariously, control of access.
This will be sold to humanity as "The Solution!" to global warming and environmental damages caused by the very creatures that God created to turn grass into food for us. The GFI website even makes this claim. We have been told for years that cow farts are negatively affecting our climate, so this will be the solution to that. We'll just get rid of the cows!!
This "meat" product will be grown in incubators that have had a culture of animal cells added to a growth medium that will feed the cells as they grow. Do you remember junior high science class when someone blew their nose, then you took a special tool and took some of that "sample" and smeared it on a red gelatinous medium in a petri dish? What did you do after that? You placed it in an incubator and gave whatever was going to grow a few days so you could study it under a microscope. This is the same thing that doctor's do when you are sick and they tell you that they want to run a culture on whatever they have found. This is a science experiment, but they are making food for human consumption!
And we have no way of knowing what they are using as the medium to feed and grow this food on. There is every conceivable reason to believe that the medium will consist of harvested proteins from who knows what sources. It could be made up of otherwise discarded animal byproducts from the slaughtering process; we could only hope that is the case. The truth of the matter is that abortion byproducts (baby bits) could be harvested and processed to be used in this medium. That is disgustingly sick to even consider, but it is entirely possible. There may even be a new way of dealing with dead human bodies that gets pushed on us because of a "lack of burial space" in the world, which could just be a way to provide more medium for this meat cultivating process. Have you heard of the movie "Soylent Green"? Check that out. For that matter, this could also lead down a path similar to another dystopian movie called "Antiviral" - it's stomach turning; but I digress, though only slightly.
This lab grown meat will allow them to ultimately outlaw the possession of private animals for food production, and to control the flow of food to the entire human population. If you behave, then you will be allowed to have your allotted amount of meat culture. If you misbehave in any way, your allowance could be reduced or outright denied. I know, this is sounding very dystopian, but can you really put this past our politicians and those who think they are better than us? Doesn't this sound exactly like what the devil would want to do to us?
We are being slow-rolled into the long-term plans of corrupt people who are driven by the desire for wealth and power. None of this is God's plan and it is up to us to resist this with everything we have. According to that Good Food Institute website, cultured meat products are already being sold in several countries including the United States under the brands GOOD Meat (cultivated chicken), UPSIDE Foods (cultivated chicken), Wildtype (cultivated salmon), Mission Barns (cultivated pork fat) and Believer Meats (cultivated chicken). If you are reading this from the U.S., it is possible that you have already consumed some of these products; if not at your own table, maybe in restaurants. We cannot trust the food system anymore. We have to take control of what we eat.
I suggest that you develop a relationship with a local butcher and maybe even a local farmer so that you can know where your meat is coming from. It may no longer be safe to trust your large grocery store to be providing you with real food. Thankfully, the regulatory system in Canada seems to be slow on the uptake of this slop, but I guarantee that it will come, especially if we remain stuck with this environmental zealot of a Prime Minister that we have in Mark Carney.
Take control of your food supply in anyway that you can, but we are not subject to the whims of others. There is another step that we can take to protect ourselves from the long-term effects of the food that we are eating, even if we cannot be sure of its origins. I will cover that in the next article.
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