Happy Thanksgiving!
Turkey with NO Killing
A giant step forward...but there are issues
SOS #185 -- J. Morris Hicks -- (11-22-22)
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I am talking about lab-grown or cultured meat. Indeed, it is the real deal -- with the look, taste and texture of real meat, but without the blood, gore, manure and suffering.
But there are issues, as I will explain. And there is a much simpler, easier, less-expensive, healthier and quicker solution.
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The video begins with a black screen as Tetrick compares the sounds from a typical meat factory to the sounds of a growing number of meat factories. Then, he provides visuals of both.
First, here's what a typical meat factory looks like.
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You can imagine what the sounds are like from the above scene in the typical meat factory of today. Let's just call it the sound of suffering from billions of innocent animals who are about to die.
Then, he talks about the sound of the "growing number of meat factories" -- the sound of water gently flowing.
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Most people have heard of cultured meat but still have many questions. After doing a bit of research for this piece, I have fewer questions than I had two weeks ago. Here are just a few things that I learned:
- Cultured meat is real meat that someday can be produced at less than the cost of producing, feeding, slaughtering and processing live animals.
- Cultured meat eliminates many of the health hazards of raising live animals for human consumption.
- It will be many decades before cultured meat makes much of a dent in the mighty global industries that are currently involved with producing animal-based foods.
You probably have a ton of questions. Here is the best source of information that I have found. Just click this image for an incredible amount of info on this new hot topic.
As you might guess, regarding the name in the upper left corner of this image, people who care about the welfare of food animals are delighted to see this new industry emerge.
They would be even happier if everyone shifted to 100% plant-based eating -- a shift that can happen far quicker and much less expensive than trying to manufacture a substance that nature never intended for us to eat.
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Still have questions, many of them are answered in this 17-min video from one year ago: The Truth About Lab-Grown Meat a video that suggests it will be a very long time before lab grown meat will be competitive in the market place.
That's why the conventional meat industry is not that worried. I have to say that there are many things that I like about this new industry even though I much prefer feeding ourselves what nature intended for us to eat. Plants. As for the positives of lab-grown meat:
- It has the potential to completely eliminate humanity's obsession with producing and killing live animals for our dinner tables.
- It can accomplish the above for less money, although, as suggested above, that won't likely happen anytime soon.
- It would greatly reduce the need for further deforestation associated with the steadily rising production of live animals for humanity to eat.
- As such, as it begins to account for an ever-increasing share of the worldwide production of meat, it can be an important weapon in the fight against climate change.
That last point resulted in this following endorsement from the UN International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). It appeared near the end of the short Josh Tetrick video above.
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Finally, the IPCC has summoned up the courage to suggest that animal-based agriculture offers us a chance to actually "solve" climate change.
Did they finally grow a spine? Did they finally decide that it is now safe to take on the leading driver of climate change?
Sadly no. They have surely known all along that the global production of animal-based foods is the leading driver of climate change but they have downplayed (if not ignored) its significance due to two factors:
- A huge global industry with an enormous amount of support from powerful leaders
- A world of eight billion people where a majority are eating animal-based foods every chance they get
But now, they have a chance to have their cake and eat it too. Now, they can embrace the cultured meat industry -- knowing full well that it is in its infancy and that it will take two or three decades before their meat-producing "partners" listed here are impacted.
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The Bottom Line
The cultured meat industry will not save us
and it will likely prolong the widespread complacency that will most definitely kill us.
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There is one compelling reason why we must act quickly regarding the complete elimination of the global, animal-based food industry.
It is the only primary driver of climate change that is possible to eliminate completely, world-wide, in less than five years.
But, according to this chart that was approved by those meat-industry "partners" listed above, global agriculture comes in fifth place (dead last out of five categories) when it comes to total greenhouse gas emissions.
The public deserves to hear the truth on this most crucial of all matters. But that is not likely to happen anytime soon. Clearly, this chart ignores the planet-heating effect of the deforestation of three trillion trees in the past two centuries.
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The problem with the other four categories is that it will require many decades, if not centuries, to make a difference when it comes to slowing change.
That will be very tough to do (impossible actually) in a world where the global population is growing by over six million people per month as more people are emerge out of poverty and join other consumers of manufactured goods and animal-based foods.
Sadly, there is another giant industry that continues to benefit from the steadily increasing consumption of animal-based foods around the world. It is the healthcare industry that is actually a "disease management" industry that continues to benefit from more people eating the wrong food for our species.
There is only one kind of food that promotes vibrant health in humans and it is NOT meat, diary, eggs or fish -- whether those foods come from animals or from factories. It is whole, plant-based foods that conveniently just happen be as great for the health of the environment as they are for the health of our own bodies.
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I have been writing and speaking about the "right food" for our species for almost twenty years and summed it up succinctly in this five minute video that was recorded in 2012.
Clearly, the UNCOP approach of addressing climate change is not working -- and will never work until the UN's blatant conflict of interests with the global animal agriculture "industries" are addressed.
Finally, I want to share a comment by a Boston reader of the NYTimes regarding the right way to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Perhaps a few folks might rethink their menu and exclude the dead flesh of remarkable birds, brutally raised and slaughtered in tortuous conditions. Being thankful would still remain a possibility.
As always, at the end of these SOS Memos, we provide tons of FREE data & "big picture" reference materials, beginning with free access to our two latest books. After the books below, scroll on down to the:
"Big Picture" Data and Video Section
In closing, do you want to do your part to help people get healthy...while slowing, stopping or even reversing climate change at the same time? Then, share this SOS Memo and the free books below with everyone you know.
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FREE: Two "Big Picture" Books
Our health, our planet and climate change
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To our knowledge, OUTCRY is the only book ever published that features a summary of "outcries" from the natural world, along with consensus conclusions of nine big picture scientists regarding our dilemma — AND an envisioned sustainable civilization of the future, using today’s technology.
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In mid 2022, we began giving this book away free of charge.
"the most important info in all of humanity is going undiscussed."
We're talking about the crucial information regarding how we can possibly slow or stop climate change within a few years.
Want to help relieve the desperate situation in which we find ourselves, read OUTCRY as soon as you can and send it to everyone you know. Just click on the book cover above.
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Here is the 2nd book we are now offering FREE to the world public: a quick and easy read that I wrote with Dr. Kerry Graff in 2015.
Using the Power of Food
to Heal Ourselves and Our Planet
This compact book is still highly relevant, focusing on helping people take charge of their health and reverse chronic disease by urgently shifting to a whole-food, plant-based way of eating.
A fringe benefit of their efforts is the steady downsizing of the leading driver of climate change: animal agriculture. Merely suggesting that the masses cut back on their meat, diary, egg and fish consumption will accomplish very little.
We want everyone to completely eliminate all animal-based foods from their diet. Yes, that includes cheese, eggs and all forms of seafood.
For your children and grandchildren, just do it!
Please share today's timely SOS with everyone.
Click the image below to hear my recent (May 2022)
45-minute talk regarding much of what has been covered in my recent SOS Memos.
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Finally, please contact me about arranging a FREE "live" Zoom talk for your group. They will get a lot more out of my talk if they have read our two FREE books in advance of my talk.
Sincerely, J. Morris (Jim) Hicks
PS: Scroll on down for more "big picture" information that is mainly in the form of powerful videos, most of which are free.
For a concise summary of "big picture" information about our situation, take a look at the landing page of my primary website that I recently updated. Just click hpjmh.com
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What about the "preservation" of civilization? |
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To clarify, we're not trying to preserve civilization as we know it. Because what we have now is extremely wasteful, harmful and grossly unsustainable. It's an incredibly reckless way of living that is now threatening our very existence as a species.
We're talking about replacing it with an entirely new, ultra-green civilization of the future -- and we do our best to paint a picture of that envisioned way of sustainable living in OUTCRY. For what one Ohio State professor emeritus of history had to say about that book on Amazon, click here.
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As for making our stand on the only planet in the universe capable of keeping us alive, this "Big Picture" section below will provide you with handy reference materials on this most crucial of all topics. |
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"Big Picture" Data and Video Section
Beginning with the timeline of research
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Five World-Changing Films
That People Everywhere Must See
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Film #1 in 2014
In 2014, Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn produced their first documentary film Cowspiracy. Executive producer is Leonardo DiCaprio, it runs 90 minutes and has been on Netflix since 2015. In 2020, I met Kip and Keegan in Sedona where I was honored to be able to speak at the same conference with them and other great leaders in this movement like Dr. Sailesh Rao and Dr. Michael Greger.
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Film #3 in 2021
In 2021, Kip Anderson teamed up with British filmmaker Ali Tabrizi, to produce Seaspiracy, an 89-minute film that vividly and alarmingly reveals what is at stake when it comes to the crucial importance of our oceans to our future as a species. Most people have no idea regarding the environmental horrors of commercial fishing -- a disgusting industry that kills dolphins by the thousands and tosses them back into the ocean. It runs 90 minutes on Netflix. Click here to view the trailer.
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Film #4 in 2021
As our situation becomes more desperate, the documentary films become more terrifying. As alluded to earlier, we are literally Eating Our Way to Extinction, a process that is vividly covered in this 2021 film (81 minutes). Narrated and produced by Kate Winslet, you can watch this great film on Amazon Prime or on YouTube for $3.99. The great ocean scientist and former head of NOAA, Dr. Sylvia Earle lends powerful credibility to such a crucial topic.
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Film #5 in 2022
This new film (89 minutes) features a young activist who travels around his country, New Zealand in an effort to find out the truth about the horrors of the dairy industry in his native land.
The film uncovers alarming information about the environmental and health impacts of the industry -- leading up to the discovery that we are on the edge of the biggest global disruption of food and agriculture in history. This new film is now available for free at waterbear.com
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Grasping the "Big Picture"
These 2 films will help in understanding
our unprecedented dilemma.
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This 83-minute documentary is all about the findings that were documented in Dr. Stephen Emmott's 2013 book. TEN BILLION.
He brilliantly describes the grossly unsustainable way of living that has brought us to the emergency situation in which we find ourselves. Since I met him in London in 2013, he has become much more serious about the need to abolish the practice of eating meat, dairy, eggs and/or fish at almost every meal.
Just click on the hourglass image. Dr. Emmott delivers a very compelling message from the stage of a theater in London. This 2013 film is still relevant and will certainly help more people grasp that all-important "big picture."
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Finally, this half-hour video was published in November of 2021. It was produced by Michael Dowd, a non-scientific researcher like me who does a very fine job of explaining the many facets of the obstacles standing between us and our survival as a species.
As do practically all researchers, Dowd focuses entirely on the problem; not the solution. I prefer to focus on both.
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What else can you do?
Probably a lot more than you think
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Start with the new documentary (Film #4) mentioned earlier -- Eating our way to Extinction for $6 on Netflix. Watch it often with your friends and family.
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Share this SOS Memo widely: Certainties, Uncertainties & Priorities by J. Morris Hicks.
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Get an e-copy of OUTCRY. Visit Outcry page on Amazon and get a much bigger understanding of the situation in which all humans find ourselves.
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Inform all the young people in your world that you are deadly serious about this topic. Urge them to read these SOS Memos and our latest book, OUTCRY.
- Completely stop eating meat, dairy, eggs and fish today and tell everyone why you are taking such a "radical" step. You're doing it for the innocent children of the world.
- As noted above, do yourself a favor and make sure that your plant-based meals of the future consist of whole plants -- the kinds of foods that prevent or reverse most chronic diseases AND enable your body to effortlessly seek its optimal weight.
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I am confident that if a few million people carefully read and digested this book that there would be a more robust conversation around the world regarding our grossly unsustainable way of living in the developed world.
To my knowledge, OUTCRY remains the only book ever published that features an envisioned, totally-green, ultra-sustainable, super-desirable, future way of living for humans -- along with ideas for how we might get there as quickly as possible.
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The links below to earlier SOS Memos will help you understand how these ideas unfolded since 2018. |
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