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Logging Goes 1337 With John Deere’s New Timberjack Walking Machine
Author: Daniel Taylor2 Jun
Seriously I want to be a logger now. Who knew John Deere engineers were so into Star Wars and all sorts of gangster ass future shit?
Synthetic Lab-Grown Meat: PETA is Down
Author: spencer20 May
This morning, NPR’s Morning Edition ran a story on the potential for Lab-Grown meat. Much like how scientists grow sheets of skin for medical use from cells, animal muscle can also be grown..and hey! animal muscle is meat. Mmmm….delicious, test tube meat.
Almost any meat eater who went to college or has a hippie friend (or reads the Synthesis Blog) has seen at least one video of animals at the slaughter and the absolutely horrendous conditions there, so it’s apparent that meat eaters don’t care where their food comes from as long as it tastes delectable. So why not meat from the lab? No animals harmed, no animal waste; it will still take energy to create the “shmeat,” but not as much as traditional meat-producing facilities. Oh, you wonderful futuristic world, you! Now WHERE’S MY FUCKING HOVER BOARD?
From NPR:
Though the idea of growing animal parts in a lab rather than on a farm has been around for a century, it has never seemed like a good time to talk about man-made meat. But the concept has had some famous proponents, including Winston Churchill in his 1932 essay “Fifty Years Hence”: “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”
Churchill was likely inspired by the work of Alexis Carrel, who at the time of Churchill’s comment had been keeping alive a cultured piece of chicken heart tissue for 20 years.
Even PETA and other animal rights activists are into the idea.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA recently announced a $1 million contest to create commercially viable chicken meat, sacrificing neither chicken nor egg. The deadline is 2012, the contest rules Herculean and the prize money paltry. But the thinking is pragmatic: If people must have meat, and factory farming is an animal nightmare, why not find a high-tech alternative?
Peter Singer, author of the 1975 treatise Animal Liberation, is all for it.
“I always thought it would be a good thing,” he says. “The same way that I think it’s good that the abuse of horses for pulling loads has ended. … I think it would be good if the abuse of animals for raising them for meat were to end, because we had a technological solution to that. We had an alternative.”
So here we are at the doorstep of the animal-less meat culture future. Next stop, Soylent Green.
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