{"id":18,"date":"2020-01-25T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=18"},"modified":"2020-01-25T19:39:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T19:39:57","slug":"the-future-is-vegan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/the-future-is-vegan\/","title":{"rendered":"The future is vegan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m a meat eater, and I have no qualms about killing animals to eat them. But I also believe there are several things brewing that will end meat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first is cloning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It won&#8217;t be long before someone can grow meat in a lab. I mean genuine meat, not some silly substitute made of quinoa and beets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This lab-grown meat will be cheaper, and higher quality. It will have exactly the amount of fat you want. It will be tender and tasty, and it won&#8217;t be in weird shapes and sizes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people selling this meat will ask why in the world an animal should have to suffer to give you meat of lower quality at a higher cost? And, of course, there&#8217;s no answer to that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the important point is that this cloned meat will transform the veganism debate entirely. It won&#8217;t be a question of the morality of eating animals. The cloned stuff will just be better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll eat it, and I look forward to it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second is disease. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You probably know that many of the worst diseases affecting humans come from livestock. There&#8217;s talk that this new Chinese monstrosity is from some hideous bat stew, although I&#8217;ve also read that it&#8217;s from snakes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However that turns out, the point is that animals raised (or used) for food are a potential source of trouble. Keeping animals at a safe distance will slow the spread of new diseases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking it all together, I simply don&#8217;t see a path for modern meat production to continue. The ugly way we treat animals, the potential for disease, and the easy alternative of cloned meat will put an end to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a meat eater, and I have no qualms about killing animals to eat them. But I also believe there are several things brewing that will end meat. The first is cloning. It won&#8217;t be long before someone can grow meat in a lab. I mean genuine meat, not some silly substitute made of quinoa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/25\/the-future-is-vegan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The future is vegan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}