Greater than 95 % of human publicity to industrial pollution like dioxins and PCBs comes from fish, different meat, and dairy.
By cultivating muscle meat instantly, with out related organs like intestines, the incidence of foodborne ailments “could possibly be considerably decreased,” as may publicity to antibiotics, “pesticides, arsenic, dioxins, and hormones related to typical meat.” At present, the U.S. Meals and Drug Administration has approved seven hormone medicine to bulk up the manufacturing of milk and meat. “Within the European Union, there exists a complete ban on such use,” nonetheless. Even with out injected hormones, although, animal merchandise naturally have hormones as a result of they arrive from animals. “Eggs, instance given, contribute extra to the dietary consumption of estradiol [estrogens] than beef, whether or not the animal is legally handled with hormones or not.” In spite of everything, eggs come straight from a hen’s ovaries, so, in fact, they’re swimming with hormones. However in the event you’re instantly rising simply muscle meat or egg white protein, you don’t want to incorporate reproductive organs, adrenal glands, or any of the related hormones.
“Chemical security is one other concern for meat produced underneath present manufacturing programs.” There are chemical toxicants and industrial pollution that construct up within the meals chain, resembling pesticides, PCBs, heavy metals, and flame retardants, however there is no such thing as a meals chain with cultivated meat. We may produce all of the tuna we wished, with zero mercury.
When the World Well being Group determined that processed meat was a recognized human carcinogen and unprocessed meat a possible human carcinogen, it wasn’t even speaking concerning the carcinogenic environmental pollution. When researchers tested retail meat for the presence of “33 chemical substances with calculated carcinogenic potential,” like polycyclic fragrant hydrocarbons (PAHs), organochlorine pesticides like DDT, and dioxin-like PCBs, they concluded that, with the intention to scale back the danger of most cancers, we must always restrict beef, pork, or rooster consumption to a most of 5 servings a month.
Why domesticate meat in any respect when you may simply purchase natural? Surprisingly, “consumption of natural meat doesn’t diminish the carcinogenic potential related to the consumption of persistent natural pollution (POPs).” Various research have just lately compared the presence of environmental contaminants in natural meat versus typical meat, and the researchers discovered, surprisingly, that natural meat was generally extra contaminated. Not solely natural beef both. Greater ranges had been additionally present in pork and poultry.
Should you take a look at the micropollutants and chemical residues in each natural and traditional meat, a number of environmental contaminants, together with dioxins, PCBs, lead, and arsenic, had been measured at significantly larger ranges within the natural samples. As you may see under and at 2:56 in my video, The Human Health Effects of Cultivated Meat: Chemical Safety, the inexperienced is natural meat, and the blue is typical.
Cooking helps to attract off a few of the fats the place the PCBs are concentrated, as proven right here and at 3:01.
Seafood appears to be an exception. Steaming, for instance, typically will increase contaminant ranges, rising contaminant publicity and concentrating mercury ranges as a lot as 47 %, as you may see right here and at 3:15 in my video. Higher to not have poisonous buildup within the first place.
Greater than 95 % of human publicity to industrial pollution like dioxins and PCBs comes from meals like meat, together with fatty fish, and dairy, however the pollution don’t seem magically. The one manner the rooster, fish, and different meat result in human publicity is as a result of the animals themselves constructed up a lifetime of publicity in our polluted world, from incinerators, energy crops, sewer sludge, and on and on, as you may see right here and at 3:40 in my video.
Not like typical meat manufacturing, a slaughter-free harvest wouldn’t solely mean no extra contaminated animals, however no extra contaminated animals both. When it comes to pollution, it might be like taking a time machine again earlier than the Industrial Revolution.
Physician’s Observe:
Cultivated meat means much less contamination with fecal residues, poisonous pollution, antibiotics, and hormones; as much as 99 % much less environmental influence; and 0 pandemic threat. Cultivated meat permits folks to have their meat and eat it, too, with out affecting the remainder of us.
That is the ultimate video on this cultivated meat sequence. Should you missed the primary two, try the movies on Food Safety and Antibiotic Resistance.
I beforehand did a video sequence on plant-based meats; see the associated posts under.
All movies within the plant-based meat sequence are additionally out there in a digital obtain from a webinar I did. SeeThe Human Health Implications of Plant-Based and Cultivated Meat for Pandemic Prevention and Climate Mitigation.
