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andrewducker- There's an awful lot of stuff that Lord Owen gets wrong in his speech about the EU and the NHS
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- National Museum of Scotland collections now available through Google's "Arts and Culture" experience
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- Facebook bans Britain First
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- CIA torturers make the world worse for everyone, including America
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- Men can understand women's emotions just fine. When they want to.
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- The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized
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- Unilever Chooses Single Base in Netherlands, Abandoning UK base
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- All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years
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- Top bottled water brands are contaminated with plastic particles
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- Teaching Germans how to fail better
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- "Continuous Delivery Sounds Great But It Won’t Work Here" (I saw this talk a year ago, and it was well worth it)
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- Would You Eat Human Meat Grown in a Lab?
- I read a short story about this as a kid.
Finally we are approaching the future I was promised!
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Date: 2018-03-15 01:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 01:56 pm (UTC)No - my reasons, from my strongest objection to my least strong:
1) risk of contagious disease (we still haven't identified all diseases, we're still discovering new Hepatitises)
2) haven't eaten meat for ages, so not sure my digestive system could cope
3) emotional ick factor
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Date: 2018-03-15 01:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 02:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 08:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 02:03 pm (UTC)I take fish oil capsules regularly though & have been been known to eat grilled fish very occasionally (I think last time was 18 months ago?), so am not sure that I count as vegetarian...
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Date: 2018-03-15 01:59 pm (UTC)(If they were doing their job right, of course)
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Date: 2018-03-15 02:11 pm (UTC)Hepatitis C virus was only discovered in ***1989***[1].
I think it's highly likely that there are more viruses we haven't discovered yet.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/knowmorehepatitis/timeline.htm
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Date: 2018-03-15 04:21 pm (UTC)I can think of 15 food animals I've quite happily eaten and that's before I get to fish or exotic creaturs like guinea pigs.
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Date: 2018-03-15 04:32 pm (UTC)Lab growing meat just seems like it's always going to be a very energy intensive to do and therefore never the best way to feed people. Mind you, I'm biased because I don't have an ethical objection to the principle of killing animals for food.
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Date: 2018-03-15 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 04:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 04:47 pm (UTC)And I worry for the vast population of food animals if we ever decide we don't want them.
When I think about it cold-bloodedly I don't have an ethical objection to eating vat grown human but as someelse put it, it fails an ick! test.
The manufacturers seem to be getting a beef burger type meet for about twice the cost of traditional farming and falling so they might be able to trade energy intensity for other cost reductions enough to get to about the same cost.
At which point I'd happily shift to eating vat grown swan, alpaca and dormouse.
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Date: 2018-03-15 04:55 pm (UTC)I think I agree with the commenter above that vat grown human sounds like a recipe for finding new diseases the hard way.
I could quite happily never eat another beef burger again anyway if that's all they can manage! I've had perfectly acceptable veggy alternatives to burgers and minced beef.
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Date: 2018-03-15 04:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-15 09:40 pm (UTC)which makes me wonder if they are really okay with wiping out numerous species just because we bred them ourselves!
Yes, this is PETA's endgame.
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Date: 2018-03-16 10:01 am (UTC)There's actually been a campaign over here in the UK to try and get people to eat horse meat because some people thought it would raise welfare standards if they could be sold for food. Not sure it got very far though.
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Date: 2018-03-15 09:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-16 10:04 am (UTC)