Clean meat, via lab, is on the way
A year ago this month, animal activist Paul Shapiro sat in the offices of the Hampton Creek food technology company in San Francisco and put a forkful of foie gras in his mouth. This small act was a big deal.
Review: ‘Clean Meat’ Could Make Livestock Obsolete
Manufacturing meat without raising animals will soon shift from fantasy to reality. Early investors include Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Cargill Inc.—already the world’s largest supplier of ground beef.
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‘Political efforts’: the Republican states trying to ban lab-grown meat
At a press conference in February, the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, told a room full of reporters: “We’re not going to do that fake meat. That doesn’t work.” He’d been discussing legislation under debate in the statehouse that would ban cell-cultivated meat—an emerging technique that, instead of slaughtering animals for consumption, grows meat in a […]
India’s Punjab and Haryana High Court rules animal rights outweigh private settlement
Noting that animals have rights and cannot be treated merely as property, the Court ruled the trial would proceed despite a private settlement entered into by the legal owner of the buffaloes and the driver, tacitly recognizing a third party: the injured buffaloes themselves.
Birds create barcode-like memories to locate stored food, scientists find
While adults might be spending the weekend trying to remember where they have hidden a hoard of Easter eggs, the black-capped chickadee has no trouble recalling where its treats are stashed. Now researchers have discovered why: the diminutive birds create a barcode-like memory each time they stash food.
Vow becomes third company to launch cultivated meat, but it isn’t starting with chicken nuggets…
Sydney-based Vow has become the third startup* (after UPSIDE FOODS and GOOD Meat) to introduce cultivated meat to the market after securing the green light from regulators in Singapore. But it’s not starting with chicken nuggets.
Sub-Human
The case for paying ranchers to raise trees instead of cattle
By mass, the world’s 1.7 billion cows are the dominant animal species on Earth, far outweighing the human population, and outweighing all the wild terrestrial mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians left on Earth by more than 15-fold. More than a third of Earth’s land is used to feed livestock.
Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals
Just two northern white rhinos remain; the species’ first IVF pregnancy could save them from extinction
The critically endangered northern white rhino could be saved from the brink of extinction after scientists performed the first successful embryo transfer in white rhinos. After the last male northern white rhino, Sudan, died in 2018, the disappearance of the species looked imminent.
