{"id":90901,"date":"2018-07-25T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=90901"},"modified":"2018-07-25T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T17:52:00","slug":"impossibly-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/impossibly-fake\/","title":{"rendered":"Impossibly Fake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animalsandnature\/factory-farming-is-killing-the-environment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Industrialized farming<\/a> is responsible for a large share of today\u2019s air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, rising carbon emissions and the depletion, erosion and poisoning of soils.<\/p>\n<p>Does that mean we should give up farming? And start making our food in chemical labs?<\/p>\n<p>Biotech start-up companies like Impossible Foods would have us believe that their fake meat is the answer to all our prayers. But is it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"http:\/\/foe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/From-Lab-to-Fork-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jury is out<\/a> on the long-term health consequences of consuming <a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2017\/09\/05\/lab-grown-clean-meat.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lab-grown meat<\/a>, the meat substitute created by Impossible Foods, and derived in part from genetically engineered yeast.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But this we do know: Real\u2014and <a href=\"http:\/\/regenerationinternational.org\/why-regenerative-agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">regenerative<\/a>\u2014farming, not lab-grown fake food, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2018\/07\/sustainable-agriculture-end-world-hunger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the power <\/a>to clean up the environment, revitalize rural communities and economies and provide enough nutritious, <em>real<\/em> food to feed the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/news\/ditching-nature-favor-fake-food-not-solution-destructive-factory-farming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read \u2018Ditching Nature in Favor of Fake Food Is Not the Solution to Destructive Factory Farming\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/news\/impossible-burger-and-road-consumer-distrust\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Read &#8216;Impossible Burger and the Road to Consumer Distrust&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industrialized farming is responsible for a large share of today\u2019s air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, rising carbon emissions and the depletion, erosion and poisoning of soils. 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