Quite the Idea - Grow It Clean: A Clean Meat Prophecy Lyrics

He had a cheat code for world change
It was once thought so strange
Back when they thought the earth would melt
Thanks to Chuck the whole system was rearranged

A craft micromeatery became the stuff of fables
They're called bioreactors, except he called 'em cradles
Motivated by the agony the animals felt
Putting slaughter-free meat straight onto your tables

Now solutions spring on up across the midwest
Rust Belt food tech is where they invest
Fish are grown and sold from aquaries in downtown Flint
Michigan innovates more than you ever guessed

Peoria's got the perfect pork meatery
Green Bay can claim the cleanest ice creamery
Toronto grows the finest mink and fox pelts
Salmon from Seattle boasts no plastic and no mercury

Netless, leaving dolphins, whales, and swordfish be
Deathless, the most compassionate economy
Suffocating, stabbing hooks never again to be felt
Shitless, air and water's finally feces free

Revolution, revolution
Disgust, denial, shame
Fade away with systematic change
Evolution, evolution
Destruction, cruelty, indifference
Fade with innovation, can I get a witness?
Revolution, revolution
No need to fear where meat comes from
When we can grow it clean

Oceans of plastic, more than all the fish by 2050, snatched
From the seas and shipped out from Chinese port cities
Six pounds of death for every pound of shrimp
No wonder Chuck and friends all knew they had to work so quickly

Now my bros and I can eat some protein paleo
Have your wooly mammoth ribeye and I'll have Stego
Ain't no burger takes water for months and months of showers
And superbugs from factory farms ain't got nowhere to go

Now the self-driving trucks are made for other uses
We're growing perfect meats at home without all the abuses
No more theft of baby infant calves from mama cows
Purest protein drinks have joined the other wines and juices

Now the ocean life has been rejuvenated
The prairie, once forgotten, now is back all integrated
The Amazon, once nearly gone, is fully back to health
Take a tour and taste your conscience being recreated

Looking back, it's a marvel how much this ended violence
Students, founders, VCs, bureaucrats promoted science
Even this did not end all pollution and abuse
So fight for liberation and abolition; do not be silenced

Revolution, revolution
Disgust, denial, shame
Fade away with systematic change
Evolution, evolution
Destruction, cruelty, indifference
Fade with innovation, can I get a witness?
Revolution, revolution
No need to fear where meat comes from
When we can grow it clean

(People gonna rise like the water...)
(Skrrt!)
Over 2,000,000,000 fish are suffocated every single day
(People gonna rise like the water...)
(Skrrt!)
A San Francisco-sized piece of Amazon is bulldozed every week
(People gonna rise like the water...)
(Skrrt!)
We have to innovate now
We have to invest in our future before it's too late
We gotta invest, invest, invest, invest, invest...

Revolution, revolution
Disgust, denial, shame
Fade away with systematic change
Evolution, evolution
Destruction, cruelty, indifference
Fade with innovation, can I get a witness?
Revolution, revolution
No need to fear where meat comes from
When we can grow it clean