{"id":1044,"date":"2006-07-12T07:44:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2012-09-28T20:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-29T00:16:42","slug":"im-curious-too-would-you-eat-lab-grown-meat-would-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1044\/im-curious-too-would-you-eat-lab-grown-meat-would-i\/","title":{"rendered":"I'm curious too, would you eat lab-grown meat? Would I?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Would you eat lab-grown meat that’s been walked around the block with electric shocks for exercise?<\/p>\n

There’s an article today on this at Alternet. Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat?<\/a>. People are working on growing your meat course in the lab, saying it’s safer, more humane and non-polluting. Others wonder what the unintended consequences might be of messing with “our ecological heritage”.<\/p>\n

I must not be a particularly creative thinker, because I have to admit that the idea of laboratory-grown steak had never occurred to me. And I’ve read, y’know, sci fi, though not much of it in the last dozen years.<\/p>\n

Or maybe the idea was resident somewhere way back in my brain, tucked behind the old Tang commercials and Willy Wonka’s six course meal in a stick of chewing gum.<\/p>\n

Is meat cultivation no different from brewing up yogurt and cheese, as is insisted by an individual in the article?<\/p>\n

My brain’s first response was to storm an angry buffalo across the mind’s movie screen, shaking its giant wooly head no. I rarely have an opporrtunity to eat buffalo meat and still it was the first thing my brain popped out of the closet.<\/p>\n

I can’t answer this question yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Would you eat lab-grown meat that’s been walked around the block with electric shocks for exercise? There’s an article today on this at Alternet. Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat?. People are working on growing your meat course in the lab, saying it’s safer, more humane and non-polluting. Others wonder what the unintended consequences might be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[426],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories","tag-social-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}