{"id":277,"date":"2007-02-12T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T09:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/02\/12\/pork-on-an-industrial-scale\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T09:45:30","slug":"pork-on-an-industrial-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/pork-on-an-industrial-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork on an Industrial Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/2007\/02\/post_2285.php\">Instapundit<\/a>, I found this Popular Mechanics story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/research\/4212533.html\">process to grow sheets of pork from stem cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You know where this is going to lead, don&#8217;t you? Eventually someone will figure out that if you can do it with pig cells, you can do it with human cells as well. And then we&#8217;re going to have our bright, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transmetropolitan\">Transmetropolitan<\/a>-like future where cannibalism is chic and there are fast food chains dedicated to serving up choice cuts of human flesh.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/387785507\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Transmetropolitan_20_p16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/184\/387785507_7f9e5ea9c4_o.jpg?resize=321%2C500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note, if this technology ever does get commercialised, it&#8217;ll be awesome. And not just for meat, but for vegetarian stuff as well. The concept of factory made flour or meat does sound disturbing, but the environmental advantages could be immense. Think of all the farm and ranch space you could turn over for forestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Instapundit, I found this Popular Mechanics story about a process to grow sheets of pork from stem cells. You know where this is going to lead, don&#8217;t you? Eventually someone will figure out that if you can do it with pig cells, you can do it with human cells as well. And then we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-weirder-than-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-4t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}