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Pentagon Wants to Feed Troops ‘Experimental’ Lab-Grown Meat to ‘Reduce CO2 Footprint’ (archive.ph)
posted 1 year ago by Ahaus667 1 year ago by Ahaus667 +46 / -0
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– dagthegnome 37 points 1 year ago +37 / -0

Captive test subjects who can't afford / don't have access to alternative food sources and aren't allowed to just quit their jobs. Because experimenting on our own soldiers has never gone wrong before.

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– Assassin47 20 points 1 year ago +20 / -0

Any soldiers still in the service deserve it.

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– Kaarous 11 points 1 year ago +11 / -0

When I was in they gave us cheek swabs saying it was genetic testing. Turns out they tried to infect the entire unit with strep. Hundreds of us laid out for a week or more, couple guys nearly died.

Why? Who knows? Best I can tell it was just for fun like that hideous goblin fauci and his dog torturing experiments.

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– 83671R18 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Died due to strep? What kind of bioweapon did they test in there?!

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– blyat56 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

If you stayed in after the covid vax you shouldn't be surprised at this.

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– Smith1980 29 points 1 year ago +29 / -0

But sure, climate change is such a noble cause. Nobody could possibly be profiting

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– Ahaus667 [S] 17 points 1 year ago +17 / -0

“Green” energy has more government subsidies and less regulations than nuclear, meanwhile nuclear is constantly becoming safer, more compact, and a better long term solution with nuclear fusion as a next milestone.

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– Smith1980 22 points 1 year ago +22 / -0

Makes me sick to think where we would be now if we fully embraced nuclear power

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– Ahaus667 [S] 16 points 1 year ago +16 / -0

Thank the left. The anti nuclear lefties who screamed 3 mile island and bogus medical studies had heavy investments in oil. They intentionally pushed rolling blackouts by policy in cities to sell that oil at a premium.

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– BeefyBelisarius 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0

Fusion is always just around the corner, while fission keeps getting better and better.

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– deleted 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0
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– Norenia 23 points 1 year ago +23 / -0

If we reduce CO2, what will the plants breathe?

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– randomuser88385 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0

I hate climate alarmism as much as the next guy, but this argument is poor. It doesn't help our side except making us look ignorant.

In general the carbon cycle would keep CO2 levels stable. Most CO2 the plants "breathed" is released back into the atmosphere when they die. Food would be CO2 neutral, except fertilizer manufacturing releases extra CO2. Therefore meat results in a lot of CO2 emission.

I have no doubt that this is a way to pay lab meat cronies/pump up their stock prices with a fat military contract. There are better ways to reduce CO2 than lab meat.

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– ernsithe 10 points 1 year ago +10 / -0

There are better ways to reduce CO2 than lab meat.

The US emits 15.32 tons of CO2 per capita. Therefore, migration into the US increases carbon emissions and deporting illegals decreases world-wide carbon emissions.

Central America is in the < 2 tons range.

Each person deported from the US to one of those countries is a global decrease of at least 10-14 tons of CO2 per person, per year.

Canada is 18.72 tons/person. India is 1.89 tons/person. If Canada cared actually cared about emissions, the solution is right there.

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– Assassin47 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

But if you tAx TEh RiCH based on the expected carbon surplus, we can buy carbon credits to offset that and become carbon neutral.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

Don't you have better plant growth with higher CO2 levels though?

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– randomuser88385 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Sure. The amount of plant mass on earth could increase as a result, and lower the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere a bit, but a new equilibrium would be established pretty quickly.

There is a lot of CO2 in the atmosphere, and more every day. There is no danger of running out or having the plants die from lack of it. Going "carbon negative" is a pipe dream of the greenies and would either take a spectacularly massive amount of green electricity or.......

They kill us all and make the survivors dirt poor. That's the real danger, not plants running out of CO2 to breathe.

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– The_Shadow_of_Intent 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Yes you're right, I'm just saying that more plant mass on earth is better for us generally.

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– ailurus 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Plus, if they can normalize lab meat then it's easier to just get more and more people to eat whatever chemical slop they're calling "lab meat"

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– ghostfox1_ 13 points 1 year ago +13 / -0

This would be a great question, if leftists thought that far ahead.

But they don't.

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– ElmoHassel 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

If the earth's temperature is really rising, won't there will be a longer growing season in the northern latitudes and won't more arable land will be available in places that once were too cold or dry for agriculture?

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– ghostfox1_ 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

To a point, yes. But there are multiple issues, like permafrost layers, soil composition, etc, that mean that while the temperatures and growing seasons will work out better, it might not end up as good for farming.

Fixable to a point, but difficult overall. Drier areas (now) might also get drier or at least not get more rainfall, that's harder to really say how it'll work out.

Physical space is another issue, as some of the more northern areas are in worse terrain and not farmable, vs the plains we use now (at least in the US).

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– SoctaticMethod1 15 points 1 year ago +15 / -0

What is it with the US military and experimenting on troops? Are the national guard at least exempt from this treatment or is this prevalent throughout ALL the military as I know how bad the Air Force test pilots had it with that propeller plane that could break the sound barrier.

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– Vivs3rdSock 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

What is it with the US military and experimenting on troops?

Feels like an easy trolljob for shitlords to bring up the historic testing of shit on black troops and then aim this plan along the lines of "racism". They want to push BLM and other shit so much? They can deal with the consequences of yet another golem they made.

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– ThreeLights 4 points 1 year ago +4 / -0

Originally, they are the healthiest per person due to the barrier of entry and constant training. If something doesn’t work on a US soldier, it wouldn’t work on the normal person.

Now, it’s because they can’t get out of their contracts and are forced to do the experiment or take paycheck cut/tribunal charges if they deny it.

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– Daucus9 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

The military is a setting where you can control several variables that would be far more difficult in other experiments. Say you want to test a food product on 1000 people. You need to factor in things like age, a person's diet, sex, pregnancy, previous health, physical activity, sleep, location, etc. when formulating such a study.

However, the military provides people of similar age, fitness, daily activity, etc. and it's easier to keep track of their diet and other factors that may be relevant to the results of such a study.

It's really difficult to conduct studies involving food, especially long-term, just because a person's life involves so many things it's hard to tell if there is an significant change (significant = relevant) good or bad.

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– ArtemisFoul 14 points 1 year ago +14 / -0

You vill eat ze tumor pumpd with antibiotics and you vill be happy! Zat iz an order, soldat!

Honestly anyone still in the US military after they started allowing in troons, ran away from Afghanistan crying, and kicked out the last few people with any integrity over coof jabs, pretty much deserves anything he gets.

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– misogynegro 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I don't think that ceding the goddamn military to the enemy is a very smart idea, and anyone who's willing to endure such maltreatment for the sake of not allowing the vampires to seize absolute control is a hero.

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– ArtemisFoul 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Yeah, well, the damage is done now.

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– bloodguard 9 points 1 year ago +9 / -0

In [Current Year] joining the military is a sucker's bet. You're pretty much assured to be acceptable loss cannon fodder for the uniparty warpigs.

And Lord knows what kind of Bill Gates inspired MRNA goop they're putting in all the mess hall meals.

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– ApexVeritas 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

As pretext for what I'm about to say, I've had a few very close family members that were in the military. With that said, anyone (most especially White men) who join the military now, are openly supporting globohomo, and deserve everything that happens to them. I hope they do serve the military lab grown meat. Load it with glyphosate, seed oils, highly processed sugar, vaccines, microplastics...they deserve all of it.

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– GamingTheSystem-01 8 points 1 year ago +8 / -0

Lab grown meat is a scam in the same vein as corn derived ethanol fuel. The inputs required just don't balance out. Tissue cells are not designed to grow by themselves, so you need cell growth medium (made from animals), and anti-biotics, and you need to flush waste out - and they end up stewing in their own filth anyway. If you culture a single cell organism, then it'll be way too easy for some other weird thing to sneak in and contaminate the soup.

If you want cheaper science fiction food for grunts, a better approach would probably to genetically engineer plants to produce more complete protein and fat profiles.

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– HallucinatoryBeing 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Watch The Science™ create man-eating plants because they now need our fats and protein to grow, like the Ivy Zombies from Resident Evil 2 Remake.

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– misogynegro 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I thought the problem with ethanol is that petrol is just cheaper and so engineers design ICE's to run on petrol. But if petrol became prohibitively expensive, engineers could design ICE's that run on ethanol, even if it would still be a step back from petrol. Hell, small jet engines in cars have been done before, albeit experimentally, so they can certainly be done with today's tech, and they run on ethanol just fine.

As far as lab-grown meat goes, couldn't they just genetically engineer farm animals to have only the most rudimentary brains, so that there's no suffering involved? They would basically be GMO zombies and that would be creepy in its own right, but for anyone concerned with animal welfare that seems like the most obvious solution. Or maybe just lobotomize them when they're young, even simpler, albeit still creepy.

That disturbing possibility aside, fungi are a lot more like animals than like plants, even though they don't move, so with some infernal GMO sorcery there's gotta be a way to develop mushrooms that taste just like meat, have the same protein content, even the same iron content. You could literally splice animal DNA to make meat mushrooms, with something similar to blood, because blood is one of the key things that makes meat delicious.

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– GamingTheSystem-01 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-yDKeya4SU

Digging up new soil to farm corn apparently releases enough CO2 to eat up 30 years of savings from ethanol. And even after that we're talking about a reduction of 2% of total emissions from vehicles, and that's if you believe the good numbers and I've got my doubts.

At some point in the future when gasoline is more expensive, someone will figure out how to do the full ethanol cycle efficiently, and you'll be able to tell it's working because they'll stay in business without government subsidy.

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– ParadigmShift2070 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

Also in order to grow them fast enough to be mass consumed, they're basically growing cancer cells

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– Daucus9 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Cancer is more than just cells growing fast. For a cell to be cancerous it needs to have other specific characteristics.

For example, cancer cells lose what is known as "contact inhibition". Cells can sense each other and if they sense overcrowding they'll stop their cell cycle. But cancer cells will grow regardless of cell population density.

That's not saying lab meat would be automatically safe, just that it wouldn't be cancer cells.

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– MrMorden 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

They have always fed us questionable food, bad food, expired food, no food. Whoever signed off of the bean and rice burrito MRE should be tried for war crimes.

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– realerfunction 7 points 1 year ago +7 / -0

co2 footprint is fake and gay propaganda.

do not eat the cancer.

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– ParadigmShift2070 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Artificial meat made by Israeli labs. That's what you get for dying for Israel.

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– TomSeeSaw 5 points 1 year ago +5 / -0

Wearing skirts will allow the diarrhea out faster. Win-Win sez Miz Generalisimo.

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– misogynegro 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

Excuse me, it's not diarrhea, it's a trans period.

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– BoberFett 3 points 1 year ago +3 / -0

There's absolutely no way that food grown in a lab has a lower cArBon FoOtPrInT than a cow, unless they're simply leaving out the cost of the lab facilities, the production of the chemical soup used to grow phony "meat", and everything else in the manufacturing chain.

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– zyxzevn 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

I am demanding electric tanks with solar panels.

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– GuestAccount69 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Yuval Noah Harari said:

Humans are now hackable animals. The whole idea that humans have this 'soul' or 'spirit' and nobody knows what’s happening inside them, and they have free will… That’s over. By hacking organisms, elites may gain the power to re-engineer the future of life itself. Because once you can hack something you can usually engineer it. In the past, many tyrants and governments wanted to do it but nobody understood biology well enough and no one had enough computer power and data to hack millions of people. Neither the Gestapo nor the KGB could do it. But soon, at least some corporations and governments will be able to systematically hack all the people.

If I wanted to 'hack' and 'engineer' a person, I'd use 'vaccines' and 'experimental food.'

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– SturmMilfEnthusiast 2 points 1 year ago +2 / -0

We already do that with social media. The little retweet/upvote number breaks most people's brains. Get that number in the 4-5 digit range and any attached text becomes true for the vast majority of people. We're already in the room with the drones, the last time is just them locking the door.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

That oath about giving up your life and body to serve keeps getting weirder and weirder results.

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– LeRiverDanube 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

'Why are our recruitment numbers still going down?'

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– FuckYourBullshit 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Reduce CO2 footprint, from eating food grown in labs that are 1000x more energy consuming than farms.

Sure bud.

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– ElmoHassel 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0

Well, I suppose it's a step up from dosing unwitting troopers with gigantic hits of LSD and watching what happens. Now the experimental exploitation of the enlisted ranks is out in the open, with some idiotic woke reason to rationalize it

Makes me wonder what was in that vaccination cocktail we took during processing back in 1981.

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– deleted 12 points 1 year ago +12 / -0
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– JustHereForTheSalmon 6 points 1 year ago +6 / -0

Who's going to stop them?

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