Wise Traditions

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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Elze van Hamelen

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Quick takeaways

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.

Introduction

2min

Exploring Lab-Grown Meat and Biotech Pharmaceuticals

16min

Tips on Avoiding Biotech Foods and Activism Action Plan

3min

The Battle for Real Food

10min

Inception of Pharma Food: Lab-Grown Meat in Space

4min

Navigating Land Ownership and Agricultural Control

2min

Empowerment Through Knowledge and Health Choices

3min

Is there biotech food on your plate? Foods derived from cell-cultures or made in a lab? How would you know if there was?

Elze van Hamelen is a researcher and journalist, and today she covers the topic of "pharma food". This is, in essence, her term for the takeover of our food supply, as we know it, by the tech industry, that results in pseudo foods like lab-grown meat, precision fermentation, and "milk without a cow". Elze unveils today what pharma food looks like, who's backing it financially, and why. She explains why it's problematic and toxic, actually, and how her extensive research compelled her to change her own diet. She also offers insights into what we can do to defend our food freedom and what to look out for when it comes to these so-called "novel foods".

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