• for: quote, quote - meat eating, climate impact - meat eating, leverage point - meat eating, leverage demographic

• quote

  • On one hand, if it’s only 12% accounting for half the beef consumption,
    • you could make some big gains if you get those 12% on board
  • On the other hand,
    • those 12% may be most resistant to change
• author Donald Rose
• reference: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795

• for: futures, futures - Canada, climate impacts, climate impacts - Canada
• title: CANADA IN THE YEAR 2060
• author: Anne Shibata Casselman
• date: Sept., 2023

• for: climate change impacts - dietary, climate change impacts - meat eating, carbon footprint - meat, leverage point - meat eating
• title: Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Disproportionate Beef Consumption among US Adults in an Age of Global Warming
• author: Donald Rose

• date: Aug. 30, 2023

• stats

  • study based on NHANES study of 10, 248 U.S. adults between 2015 and 2018 indicated that 12% accounted for all beef consumed

• for: climate change impacts - meat, carbon footprint - meat, leverage point - food, stats, stats - meat eating
• title:
• stats
  • 12% OF AMERICANS EAT HALF OF ALL BEEF CONSUMED IN A DAY
• date: Aug. 30, 2023
• source: https://www.futurity.org/beef-food-climate-change-2967702-2/
• cited paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/18/gigantic-power-of-meat-industry-blocking-green-alternatives-study-finds

• potential progress trap

  • in vivo, an animal body has a mechanism to turn off stem cells when they are growing in the wrong place in the body. This regulates the body to grow properly.
  • in lab grown meat, an artificial in vitro environment is created for the stem cells and they are encouraged to keep growing continuously (some critics compare this to cancerous growth)
  • for UNKNOWN REASONS, FSB seems to prevent the mechanism from turning off cell growth, no matter what animal food species.
  • the worrying thing here is that the scientific community does not know why FSB has this behavior.

• Question

  • What are the views of the regulatory agencies that have passed Lab grown meat on this subject?

• potential progress trap
  • FBS
    • Fetal Bovine Serum

• This is used for the growth of all kinds of stem cells, not just those from cows

  • We do not know the full implications of mixing FBS from cows with all other species

• Question

  • What are the views of the regulatory agencies that have passed Lab grown meat on this subject?

• FBS volumes needed for a single lab grown burger are impractical
  • an estimated 50 liters of bovine serum is needed
  • a single cow fetus can yield between 150 and 550 milliliters of serum
  • this means that to create a single burger you need the blood of between 90 and 333 cow fetuses until a synthetic or plant-based alternative to fbs is found

• potential progress trap
  • if the seed stem cell has some unknown problem
    • it will potentially be inherited by all descedents

• Title
  • Lab grown meat
• Author
  • Real Science
• Publication
  • Youtube video

• Question
  • where are the progress traps?
  • It's already meeting approvals in SIngapore and FDA in USA.
  • Where are the hidden problems? -
  • This article highlights some of the issues
    • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencealert.com%2Flab-grown-meat-has-a-big-problem-very-few-people-know-about&group=world

• target volume for lab grown meat in USA
  • 40 million pounds of meat across USA

• Title
  • Eat Just To Scale Up Cultured Meat Production On Gaining New Regulatory Approval In Singapore
• Author
  • Douglas Yu
• Publication
  • Forbes

• Date

  • Jan 18, 2023

• Description

  • This story updates what is happening in the lab brown meat industry.

• Comment

  • What progress traps might present themselves here?
  • Immediately, one presents itself
    • Centralization of global meat production to a few technological silos
    • Significant job loss in the meat industry

• Overall demand for meat is expected to jump more than 70 percent by 2050
• livestock farming currently represents about 15 percent of all current human greenhouse gas emissions (UN FAO).
• To reduce meat consumption now requires a familiar dual approach:
  • provide alternatives available now
    • plant proteins are still the most viable alternative
  • degrowth
    • reduce our meat consumption rather than eliminate it entirely,

• The researchers say that
  • it would make more sense to invest in increasing the efficiencies of existing livestock farms
    • to limit their environmental footprint,
  • which may provide greater emissions reductions sooner that this fledgling industry of lab-grown meat can.

• sustainability life cycle assessment impacts
  • University of California, Davis (UCD), Holtville researchers performed a life-cycle assessment of current meat-growing processes
    • has not yet been peer-reviewed
    • findings are that cultured meat production could emit between four to 25 times more carbon dioxide per kilogram than regular beef and all its hidden costs, depending on the techniques used.
    • Pros
      • cultured meat uses less land than herds of cattle or flocks of sheep,
      • cultured meat uses less water and antibiotics,
    • Cons
      • laboratories to extract growth factors from animal serums,
      • growing crops for sugars and vitamins.
      • energy required to purify all of these broth ingredients to a high standard before they can be fed to the growing meat lumps.
        • energy-intensive, extreme level of purification is needed to prevent introducing microbes to the culture.
          • "Otherwise the animal cells won't grow, because the bacteria will multiply much faster,

• Title
  • Lab-Grown Meat Has a Big Problem Very Few People Know About
• Author
  • Tessa Koumoundouros
• Publication
  • Science Alert
• Date June 2, 2023

• translation error
  • should be
    • ape-brained meat sack

• translation error

  • should be
    • ape-brained meat sack, taken from Elise's book

• comment

  • comparable to Ernest Becker's description of the human condition
  • in his book The Denial of Death
    • quote:
      • "Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order to blindly and dumbly rot and disappear forever."

• comment

  • the comparison is apt as one of the goals of transhumanism is to use technology to conquer death
  • From this perspective, we might argue that transhumanist aspirations have been with humanity for as long as medicine has intervened to extend life and human wellbeing

• translation error
  • should be
    • aped-brained meat sack

• translation error
  • should be
    • ape-brained meat sack

Keyword for this entire letter. The FDA finds no adulterants per this consultation and report provided by Upside Foods.

For Upside Food's report see: https://www.fda.gov/media/163262/download

Veal, the meat of young male calves who are slaughtered between eight and twelve months of age, is not as popular in the UK now as it was in Austen’s time. At the time, it was an expensive food, hence Mr. Bingley’s decision to offer White Soup, which was made with veal broth, at the Netherfield Ball. It is unsurprising that Bath residents like the Allens would be accustomed to finding this expensive meat in the market since, as Maggie Lane explains, Bath was second only to West London “in the range and luxury of its shops” ('Domestic economy' 14). Its geographic location put it at great advantage to receive variety and high quality in foods: meat from Wales; fruit and vegetables from the Cotswolds; dairy produce from Somerset and Devon; fish from the River Severn; and imported wines from Bristol (13). So, Mrs. Allen’s concern about a shortage of veal in the Bath market strikes Lane as somewhat odd. However, as Lane herself states in more recent work, “any mention of a specific food stuff in Austen is made by a character who is thereby condemned for being greedy, vulgar, selfish, or trivial” ('Food' 268). Austen’s letters confirm that she learned about the complex social meanings of food and eating from her own domestic duties. So, although this might seem like a passing remark on Mrs. Allen’s part, it brings attention to the triviality that characterizes both Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Thorpe.

Mrs. Allen’s remark highlights her selfishness as well as her inadequacy as a guardian. Catherine is walking in from spending more time with Isabella and Mr. Thorpe, and her intuition about his dishonesty, although not yet formulated as such, is conveyed through her thoughts about him. She realizes that he “did not excel in…making those things plain which he had before made ambiguous.” After being with him, she feels “extreme weariness” creeping over her. But Catherine’s intuition is not affirmed by her temporary guardian, Mrs. Allen, who rather than ensuring that the Thorpes are good company for Catherine, is much more concerned with the shortage of veal. The veracity of Mrs. Thorpe’s information itself must be questioned, given that her children characterize deceitfulness. Yet, in addition to underscoring character flaws, Mrs. Allen’s and Mrs. Thorpe’s reliance on the market to acquire their meat emphasizes their class. As Barbara K. Seeber points out, “[t]o be able to command food that others cannot inscribes social hierarchy” (94, 97). In this case, while Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Thorpe might be performing refinement and wealth in their preference for veal, their inability to access it emphasizes what they do not have—a large estate and cattle.

Today, veal is consumed globally. It is prized for its tenderness, which requires that calves be restricted from exercise to avoid building muscle. For long, the farming industry has used crates to confine calves and restrict their mobility, a practice that animal advocates deem inhumane. In January 2007, the European Union banned these crates. The UK has implemented this ban for calves destined to be slaughtered for food. Otherwise, since bulls don’t produce milk and adults are not deemed good for meat, male calves are often shot when they are born. Calf crates continue to be used in the US and other countries.

Veal production and consumption remind us of the power dynamic that justifies human dominance over nature. Seeber has argued that this dynamic was familiar to Austen, who was well aware of its intersection with male dominance over women (97-99). Indeed,these two power dynamics intersect in characters like John Thorpe, whose preference for hunting and mistreatment of horses signals his perception of Catherine Morland as prey to be caught and consumed.

Works Cited

Pauer, S., Rutjens, B., & Harreveld, F. van. (2022). Trust is good, control is better: The role of trust and personal control in response to risk. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dvb5x

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/bat-out-hell-singer-meat-loaf-dies-aged-74-2022-01-21/

Douglas, L. (2021, October 28). Coronavirus infections at U.S. meat plants far higher than previous estimates -House subcommittee. Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/coronavirus-infections-us-meat-plants-far-higher-than-previous-estimates-house-2021-10-27/

the crux of the problem is: trade-offs

I'm intrigued by wartime cookbooks. This is exactly the type of recipe I'm looking for. It looks versatile, cheap,and simple.

Linked to from: https://security.stackexchange.com/a/183973/43759

Cohen, P. N. (2020). The COVID-19 epidemic in rural U.S. counties. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pnqrd

Beef is nearly 6 times the impact of Pork.

This is worth referring to in the background section to provide context, on why you need more than just changes to the web

Is it good though?

• "we are spirits in the material world"
• "We are spiritual beings having a human experience"

or as I jokingly say:

• 'I am a Pleiadian being having a Human experience.'

Of course you're in a limited state. Being in a body is a limited state. It's a great nuisance carrying around this hunk-feeding it, housing it, keeping it clean, clothing it, making it beautiful, keeping it comfortable and attending to its many aches and pains. A nuisance, my God! Don't you just want to fly away sometimes? But the body is the garment you wear in being in this world, and it enables you to communicate here. You don't get much attention if you don't have a body and you want to communicate. Then it is hard to get people's attention. And if you do get their attention, you scare the daylights out of them, and they never want to have an experience like that again! So, obviously, our ability to communicate with people in the world seems very limited. We still give them something, but it will arise from within them and they will think it is from themselves.

https://hyp.is/CxRY8prCEeafH6-CvEocWw/gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmPmEFwAKZTkEDca6uRR4VwkHwmmrdFuuBvopgfGPmKEsg

I really, truly wish that the author explained what bread is. What is its nature? What it symbolize? What does nut bread even stand for?