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Controversial new lab-grown meat has been slammed by nutritionists and farmers skeptical of its nutritional value — and whether it should even be labeled beef or chicken.
The US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration have given the green light to two companies, UPSIDE Foods and GOOD Meat, to sell their products — which are cultivated in a lab rather than coming from slaughtered animals — in the US.
The meat is created from live stem cells taken from the muscle and skin…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Tell the nutritionist to go eat her shoe. I have not been impressed with nutritionists who seem to have their concentration on the USDA Food Pyramid and not understand broader concerns of getting away from a meat focused diet, which is destructive to our health and the health of the planet and wildlife.
Criticizing some vegan foods as being too processed misses several points:
There are at least four reasons to go vegan:
For the meat, the raised animals are often tortured in the process and eventually slaughtered, a barbaric and tortuous process, for their meat. Maybe once we needed the meat in some places. Yes, we were once hunters and gatherers at one point or another. But there are now few places where that needs to be true anymore. We do not need the meat, so now it is a choice we make because we are culturally ignorant (brainwashed, enculturated), exhibiting selfish gluttony, exhibiting stubborn tradition, but a choice we make because we have been culturally programmed to think that we need the meat. Some are just gluttonous in liking the taste of meat and stubbornly resistant to change. Some see meat-eating as part of their identity.
There is everything we need in plant-based diets, and research indicates that it is a healthier choice. Meat-eating has provided needed sustenance in mankind’s past, but meat-eating is associated with diseases like stroke, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, clogged arteries, etc.
It is better for the environment. Factory farming and ranching introduce one of the main sources of greenhouse gases.
Ranching is taking up more and more land and is not sustainable. It encroaches on wildlife, destroys wildlife habitats, and ranchers are killing wildlife.