/ world today news/ Hunters and fishermen do not want to eat synthetic protein, accusing its producers of lower quality compared to the “natural product”
Last Monday, another abscess in the rotting European body was revealed: Italians’ reluctance to switch to the increasingly “green” Brussels diet. Such a diet requires not only the almost complete extermination of the European cow herd, but also the replacement of most products with what biotechnology now offers as food.
The market for synthetic and plant-based food alternatives has grown rapidly in recent years. The Good Food Institute, a lobbying group that advocates for the development of alternatives to animal products, reports that in the United States the market has grown from $4.9 billion in 2018 to $7 billion in 2020 – a 43% increase in sales .
Similarly, the plant-based meat market reached $1.4 billion, an increase of 72%. Shares of Beyond Meat, which produces plant-based meat, rose 859% in its first three months of business. The synthetic biology business has reached $12 billion and will double by 2025, jumping to $85 billion by 2030.
And there you have it – as Euractiv reports, Italy bans synthetic food products. This was announced by the Italian Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida.
Italy became the first country in the world to hit the brakes. This happened on the forum “Traditions and Innovations: A Conservative Future for European Farmers”, held in Ireland. On this green island, Europe’s leading conservative politicians discussed the challenges and opportunities arising from European regulation and cooperation in livestock, agriculture and the green economy.
However, as Francesco Lollobrigida explained, “The quality of food products is of fundamental importance and we cannot accept that society is initially divided in two and quality products are produced only for the wealthy elite. We believe that everyone should be able to eat well.”
The divide between rich and poor at the table, which is in full swing, cannot be covered up by any party slogans and programs. But nevertheless, it now helps politicians, especially Italian ones, to score points. MEP Carlo Fidanza, head of the Fratelli d’Italia delegation to the European Parliament, unlike the Brussels bureaucrats, bluntly stated that “synthetic meat is not meat, synthetic milk is not milk.
I stand for a natural product, and using the name of a natural product for a synthetic ersatz, in my opinion, is not a step in the right direction.”pointing directly to the European Commission, which has allocated more than 6 billion euros to “support animal welfare.” The program adopted by the EU, according to Fratelli d’Italia, is too bureaucratic and unable to cope with the new challenges facing the continent.
„Farmers, ranchers and fishermen risk paying a very high price for the ideological nonsense pushed behind the European Union’s Green Deal, which fines producers for reducing emissions and will only lead to reduced food production“, says MEP Carlo Fidanza.
It would be nice if only the Italians had started anti-green riots. On the same day, the president of the French Federation of Hunters, Willy Schrain, who officially announced his candidacy for the European elections, announced that he would head a list called “Touche pas à ma ruralité” (Don’t touch my rural life) in next year’s European elections.
He is ready to defend the interests of the peasants, who are effectively pariahs in Europe and a minority in French society, meaning hunters, fishermen, bullfighting enthusiasts and, of course, farmers.
His appeal is addressed to the Brussels elite, who, in his words, “passes laws every week while the good people meet them “with a knife” and their environmental measures are actually punitive.
I’m not sure if we’ll be allowed to ride a horse tomorrow; I’m not sure if we’ll be allowed to hook an earthworm on our fishing line; I’m not sure if they’ll let us eat ribs at the barbecue!” he said in his impassioned campaign manifesto.
It should not be thought that the motley group of those who support him does not mean much in Europe. In the last European elections, Schraen’s sister party “Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Traditions” won 6.77% of the vote and six seats in the European Parliament. And he himself hopes for at least 5% of the voters.
It is even worse in Brussels with Germany, where a growing reluctance to go green developed after FDP German Transport Minister Volker Vissing backed out at the last minute of a deal to ban internal combustion engine cars from 2035
But back to our cows.
One of the main differences between conventional foods and biotechnologically engineered synthetic foods is the use of innovations in synthetic biology and genetic engineering. By introducing DNA fragments from other organisms or altering intragenic information, these technologies cause microorganisms, cells, or other forms of genetic material to “ferment” and multiply to stimulate the creation of new, entirely synthetic ingredients.
Currently, they are widely used by Western companies Beyond Meat, Motif Foodworks, Ginkgo Bioworks, which produce custom microbes, BioMilq – breast milk grown in a laboratory, Nature’s Fynd – meat and dairy alternatives grown on mushrooms, Eat Just – plant-based egg base, protein substitute, Perfect – laboratory-grown dairy products and many others.
Cheese and dairy imitations are already starting to appear. Formo uses synthetic biology to synthesize milk proteins by fermenting mozzarella and ricotta cheeses without the use of cows or other dairy animals.
Few people pay attention to the fact that the May report of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization this year, in addition to food shortages in 22 countries, shows that there are potential health hazards associated primarily with laboratory-grown meat.
Synthetic products signal to us that another profit mechanism has been created, used by large corporations using technology to strengthen their control over the world market. The role of the European Commission in this case is definitely reduced to complicity in this, regardless of what “green” slogans it hides behind.
Translation: ES
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