The Health Effects Of Plant-Based And Artificial “Meats”

The following report is from the Trends Journal:

Well, they did describe it as impossible.

A study of so-called “Impossible Meat” commissioned by the company that engineered it reported negative effects in animals, after only a short time frame of consumption.

Impossible Foods, a California-based company that utilizes genetically modified components, has succeeded in getting Impossible Burger products approved for sale in many countries, including the United States and Canada, after some difficulties.

A processing ingredient called GM soy leghemoglobin (SLH) has attracted the scrutiny of advocacy groups including GMWatch. SLH is added to the fake meat to help give it the look and texture of the real thing.

GMWatch recently reported that a study done by Impossible Foods demonstrated worrying results. After only 28 days of being fed “Impossible Meat,” rats showed signs of inflammation or kidney disease, and possible signs of anemia, according to a study analysis written for GMOScience by GMWatch editor Claire Robinson and Dr Michael Antoniou.

The controversy surrounding SLH hasn’t stopped Impossible Foods from efforts to get its products approved in other jurisdictions.

The Australian/New Zealand food authority FSANZ has already approved SLH for use in foods, and it is expected that Impossible Meat will soon be available there. By keeping the amount of the controversial substance to 0.8 percent, Impossible Foods can even avoid having it labeled on its items.

But GMWatch noted that there’s an active complaint to the FSANZ approval, filed by Friends of the Earth (FoE) Australia and GeneEthics in 2020.

According to the submission, SLH has never been shown to be safe in food. In its natural form, SLH can be found in the roots of soybeans, but it has never been a component of the human diet.

Furthermore, Impossible Foods’ SLH is produced from a GM Pichia pastoris yeast strain. Pichia pastoris has no history of being used safely in food.

FSANZ has not evaluated the safety of all of the proteins present in SLH. Given that even trace amounts of protein can cause anaphylaxis, FoE/GeneEthics’ submission states,  “We consider it important that all the proteins produced be identified, characterised and compared with known allergens.”

In the EU, clearance of GM yeast-derived SLH is presently being reviewed by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). Impossible Foods filed an application for its product there in 2019.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

And yet, if you have been following our reports on the continued push for these fake meats, we are being told that these are “healthy” alternatives. Of course, that is such a load nonsense; but “healthy” these days means, ‘as long as your head has not been severed from your body, your healthy.’

[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth. [4] For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: [5] For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

1 Timothy 4:1-5

And yet this approximately 2,000 year-old prophecy from that “dusty old Book,” is being fulfilled in front of our eyes: and yet the world and professing Christians haven’t the foggiest idea what is going on.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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