Sunday, June 16, 2024

Pentagon Wants to Feed Troops ‘Experimental’ Lab-Grown Meat to ‘Reduce CO2 Footprint’


A Pentagon-funded company is seeking proposals to feed America’s soldiers lab-grown meat in a bid to "reduce the CO2 footprint" at Defense Department outposts.

BioMADE, a public-private company that has received more than $500 million in funding from the Defense Department, announced earlier this month that it is seeking proposals to develop "innovations in food production that reduce the CO2 footprint of food production at ... DoD operational environments," according to an online announcement.

These include "novel cell culture methods suitable for the production of cultivated meat/protein," or lab-grown meat, a product that is still in its experimental phases. This type of meat is grown in a lab from animal cells with the aid of other chemicals, and has emerged as a flashpoint in debates about the efficacy and morality of manufacturing meat products without slaughtering animals.

BioMADE—which earlier this year received a $450 million infusion of taxpayer cash—maintains that lab-grown food products will reduce the Pentagon’s carbon footprint, a priority for the American military as it pursues a Biden administration-mandate to address climate change and other cultural issues that critics describe as "woke."...more



Beege Welborn at Hot Air has this to say:

If you thought that the vicious and still ongoing backlash to the vaccine mandate would have given the Department of Defense pause for at least a little while before they started using American troops' status as virtual indentured servants of the state for experimentation purposes, think a-frickin'-gain.

The Progressive Wokesters, who see the members of our military as one big lab rat colony, are here to tell you they've got a world to save, no time to do it, and might as well make use of available and basically rights-free subjects to see how it goes.

...If you're stuck in one of those God-forsaken Schlitz-hole posts in, say, Syria, you get test-tube meat? Like your life doesn't already suck so bad that they have to take what real food you can get away from you to reduce your desert foxhole carbon footprint? Or you're running patrols out of Djibouti, so thanks for the test tube?



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