The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Synthetic Chicken Will Never Fly Techno-flesh cannot replace livestock. JOHN KLAR Recent revelations at a premier lab-grown meat startup suggest techno-mystical visions of cheap, plentiful, vat-cultured meats are a fantastical pipe dream. Venture capitalists and a climate-anxious public have been lured to believe synthetic animal meat substitutes will solve environmental problems while liberating farm animals. The chief hurdles for this nascent, aspirational industry are cost and scale: The alleged misrepresentations by billion-dollar Upside Foods in Emeryville, California, reflect an industry-wide cover-up of the impossibility of achieving cost savings, large-scale production, or environmental utility with vat-flesh. The Downside of Upside Upside Foods has repeatedly touted its technology to “cultivate” flavorful, whole cuts of synthetic chicken in its  laboratory . Employee whistleblowers claim the company misled the public to believe it had developed the capacity to efficiently pr

  No Farmers, No Food, No Future Rationing, population control and reduced life expectancy beckon ELIZABETH NICKSON All over the world, everywhere you look. And now bugs. They are actually serious about bugs, and when I say ‘they’ I mean the government. Justin Trudeau, the most hated man in Canada, and the most hated prime minister in history granted millions to yet  another  bug  factory  not too long ago. This venture is so unpopular, some wit created an app that scans a food product to see whether bugs are being used. Bugs and chemical meats are meant to replace meat, dairy and eventually, grains and vegetables. Like the vaccines, given the recent history of government institutions meant to assure safety, there is substantial doubt as to safety or efficacy, but never mind. It is part of the great green future, where we will live in concrete bunkers piled on top of each other and eat meat paste and crickets. A contractor friend building four badly needed high rises in the near-by cap