Some deeply rooted beliefs claim that technological, chemical and data-driven solutions will save us from climate changes and an ever-growing demand for food.

This and the following stories are aimed to draw attention to those issues by highlighting some examples of the broken food chain. The stories are inspired by people who either share the same beliefs or think otherwise.

Let’s talk lab grown meat

“Cultured meat is meat produced by in vitro cell culture of animal cells, instead of from slaughtered animals. It is a form of cellular agriculture. Cultured meat is produced using many of the same tissue engineering techniques traditionally used in regenerative medicine.

Nevertheless, some people remain sceptical of this claim. This is understandable, given that trials on the taste of lab-grown have been quite limited (and mostly run or, at least, funded by companies such as Memphis Meats)”.

What is also worrying is that people and companies of the tech worldare becoming increasingly involved in saving the world and food production, utilizing methods coming closest to their previous business.

Bill Gates, co-founder of the imitation meat start-up Impossible Foods, now insists synthetic beef is a necessary strategy to address climate change. The call to replace beef with artificial meat is made in Gates’ book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need,” which was released in February 2021.

The idea is that by eliminating livestock, we would reduce methane emissions, a greenhouse gas. However, the notion that cattle are a significant source of methane only applies to animals raised on concentrated animal feeding operations, where they are fed an inappropriate diet of GMO grains — not free-grazing animals raised on a species-appropriate diet of grasses.

Gates and likeminded others want Americans and other Western nations to switch to a diet of 100% synthetic beef. Coincidentally, Oregon is now proposing a ballot initiative for the 2022 general election that would effectively ban most meat sales and consumption in the state.

Forcing people to cut or eliminate beef consumption is a part of the climate agenda. Gates spells this out in his book and the EAT Forum, which collaborates with nearly 40 governments around the world to transform the food system. He works closely with imitation meat companies, including Impossible Foods.

Bill is also a longtime promoter of Genetically Modified (GMO). He recently started calling for a complete transition from meat to lab-grown meat and other fake and unnatural food sources, such as a protein-rich microbe found in a Yellowstone geyser. Other investors included Google and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.

Animals are not the ones to blame

It seems crazy, we are making animals and meat products responsible for human sins like emission of green house gasses. In reality, a far more sustainable and healthy answer would be to transition away from concentrated animal feeding operations and return to integrated herd management systems, which are an important part of regenerative farming, as grazing livestock optimizes soil quality and improves the quality and quantity of crops.

If we kept livestock in balanced amounts (like natural environments), emission from herds would be hugely outweighted by carbon sequestration into the pastures and be a tool to rewind global warming. Nevertherless, we are trying to repair a broken food chain with newer and increasingly un-natural products and processes.

It’s unquestionable that to have a healthy planet we need animals as co-workers to maintain and improve our exhausted soil. Let’s avoid breaking the natural chain. Where on our planet have we seen healthy farm, savannah or great plain conditions without grass feeders and other inhabitants of the natural food chain?

Nature worked for millions of years to figure out the right balance between soil micro life, grass feeders and predators, doing trial-and-error tests in all dimensions.

I fully agree that meat consumption has to be reduced to the amount that fits the natural cycle. It’s, in fact. is a rather obvious fact if you believe in holistic and balanced farming.

Unfortunately, the big guys in food industry play a different game. Dressed in increasingly more politically correct suits, eager to please consumer attention to health and environmental issues, they keep on pushing new, untested technical solutions for food!! 

I have vivid memories of the times when warfare chemicals were rebranded for agricultural purposes. At the time when it took off 60 years ago, we all believed this was a “green revolution”. 

I don’t believe one millimetre in artificial solutions.  It has been tried more than enough with devastating consequences for our broken food chain and for our planet.  There are natural solutions for working our land and raising our livestock in which we don’t need chemicals, fertiliser, and artificial processes. We can do it in a responsible way and be able to feed the planet and clean up the mess we created. 

Have a look at www.soilfoodweb.com It’s not about religiousus thinking, its just a matter of common sense.

Farmers Circle is a farm that believes in something as simple as working according to natural cycles and processes. We believe that in millions of years nature has already tested what’s working and what’s not by performing millions of trial-and-error tests where the most beneficial and most healthy practices survived.

Nature always knows better and always wins in the end.