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Brazil-based meat processing company, JBS S.A. recently announced that it plans to construct the world’s largest cell-cultured meat plant in San Sabastian, Spain.
Citing a report by the Northern Ag Network, The Gateway Pundit reported that the meat factory will be built by BioTech Foods, a JBS subsidiary with support from the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade, and scheduled to go online in mid-2024.
Bio-Tech Foods will also be responsible for researching and cultivating these cell lines for production.
In a press release, the world’s largest meat-processing company said,
“In this line, the project led by BioTech Foods, ‘Research on cell lines, cultured media, and biomaterials for their correct bioprocessing to enable the production of cultivated meat ‘(investMEAT)’ will allow a highly efficient cultivated meat production line, which will solve the challenges of current technology linked to scalability.”
According to Reuters, the factory will be capable of producing over 1,000 metric tons of cultivated beef annually, “JBS said it could expand capacity to 4,000 metric tons per year in the medium term.”
JBS USA’s head of value-added business, Eduardo Noronha, said the new Bio-Tech plant puts JBS in a unique position to lead the world’s burgeoning lab-grown meat business and ride this wave of innovation.
Agreeing, Bio-Tech Foods co-founder and CEO Iñigo Charola added in a statement: “With the challenges imposed on global supply chains, cultivated protein offers the potential to stabilize food security and global protein production.”
Reacting to the development, US National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Todd Wilkinson told Northern Ag Network that the move is one of the biggest to face the meat industry.
Wilkinson said, “We’ll gladly compete against that, but the consumer needs to know at the counter what they’re buying. I just don’t want the beef industry to go by way of what happened to milk and lose the ability to identify our product as unique and natural.
"They can say that it’s designed to feed the world, but it’s feeding the world a non-natural product and it’s a product that is going to require more energy to produce, and don’t tell me it’s sustainable.”
Northern Ag Network, reported that Wilkinson testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate on October 19, 2019, and alleged that climate radicals would try to destroy the American cattle industry and then, provide their cultured meat solution after the destruction is well underway.
Wilkinson, a South Dakota cattle rancher, told the subcommittee that contrary to the claims of some environmental and anti-animal-agriculture activists, “American beef production and consumption is a climate change solution.”
“Climate policies that unfairly target cattle producers fail to recognize the positive role of cattle and beef in a healthy, sustainable food system.
“Rather than adopting misguided policies that threaten the viability of farmers and ranchers, we want to shift the conversation, ” Wilkinson told members of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety.
Northern Ag further reported that, in his testimony, Wilkinson discussed among others the effect of methane on global climate, saying, "Methane has no long-term impact on climate when emissions and oxidation are in balance. And this balance has been maintained for centuries.”
According to The Gateway Pundit, JBS owns a large segment of the U.S. meat-processing industry and some of the lab-grown meat is likely to make its way from Spain to the U.S. and other countries.
The outlet stated that U.S. beef cattle herds are currently at their lowest levels since 1962 and beef is getting more expensive due to historically low stocks and because some farmers have slaughtered off much of their herds because they cannot afford to feed them with the rising prices of corn.
Barn Fires.
According to the Washington DC-based Animal Welfare Institute, AWI, since 2013, approximately 6.5 million farm animals have been killed in barn fires, out of which around 6 million were chickens and about 7,300 were cows.
Between 2018 and 2021, nearly 3 million farm animals died in the fire, with 1.76 million chickens dying in the six largest fires over that period, the Institute disclosed.
Following a fire at South Fork Diary near the town of Dimmit, in Texas, the United States in the first week of April 2023, the AWI, in a statement sent to the BBC at the time said, if confirmed, a death toll of 18,000 cows would be “by far” the deadliest barn fire involving cattle since it began keeping records in 2013.
“We hope the industry will remain focused on this issue and strongly encourage farms to adopt common-sense fire safety measures. It is hard to imagine anything worse than being burned alive, ” said Allie Granger, policy associate for AWI’s farm animal program.
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Effect Of Lab-grown Meat.
Some people in the US believe that the persistent fires at dairy farms across the country have become too hard to ignore.
They say that the fires are deliberate attacks on the dairy industry by promoters of lab-grown meat.
A report by the Ussa news said a disturbing new study, found that lab-grown meat causes "turbo cancer" in humans who consume it.
The report, citing a February 7 Bloomberg story on synthetic meat, written by Joe Fassler said that synthetic meat companies use immortalized cell lines for their products, explaining that “Normal meat cells don’t just keep dividing forever.
"To get the cell cultures to grow at rates big enough to power a business, several companies … are quietly using what are called immortalized cells, something most people have never eaten intentionally,” Fassler wrote.
Fraser also noted that while immortalized cell lines “are a staple of medical research,” . “the problem is that the materials used to make the product – ‘immortalized cell lines’ – replicate forever, just like cancer."
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