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467: Pharma Food

Mar 25, 2024
Journalist Elze van Hamelen discusses the rise of 'pharma food' like lab-grown meat and precision fermentation, revealing financial backers and health risks. She advises on making informed food choices, avoiding biotech foods, and activism action plans. The podcast delves into the battle for real food, emphasizing the importance of connecting with local farmers and advocating for food freedom. It explores the inception of lab-grown meat in space, challenges in land ownership, and empowerment through knowledge for health choices.
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  • Lab-grown meat and precision fermentation are part of the pharma food era, raising health and environmental concerns.
  • Financial backing from tech companies and big food corporations drives the push for synthetic foods, threatening food freedom.

Deep dives

Pharma Food: The Tech Industry's Takeover of Our Food Supply

Lab-grown meat, precision fermentation, and milk without a cow are part of the pharma food era, backed by the tech industry. Elsa Van Hemelen unveils the problematic aspects of pharma food, revealing its toxicity and threats to health and small farms. Clean meat, under various names, poses risks with synthetic alternatives and unnatural processing methods. Consumers are urged to defend food freedom by understanding and identifying these novel foods in the supply chain.

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