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Meanwhile, the rest of us wrestled with our choices: do we swear off meat, swap canvas for plastic, ditch the lawn, change the bulbs, wonder if it's too late? "I hope this movement is not a fad," one activist told a TIME reporter after the first Earth Day 38 years ago, "but the signs are not encouraging." On the one hand, less than three months later, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. The air and water got cleaner, DDT was banned, leaded gas phased out, recycling phased in. On the other hand, the world's population has nearly...
...technology to produce in vitro meat is almost in place, says Mironov, but "there are bottlenecks" in the process - namely scale and cost. Given the current technology, it would cost $1 million to turn out a 250g piece of beef. The problem boils down to producing a cell-culture medium in large enough quantities at a low enough price (it's the same problem facing tissue engineers who are attempting to grow artificial organs for human transplant). So, two weeks ago, an international group of experts assembled in Norway for the first In Vitro Meat Consortium symposium to talk about...
Doable, yes, but not by 2012. It will take at least five to 10 years of research, followed by an extensive approval process, to ensure that any in vitro meat produced is fit for human consumption. Though PETA's competition may not produce a winner soon, the hope among scientists is that it will create interest and funding. As for selling fake meat to the public, that's another matter. But then, in an era of artificial hearts and over-the-counter genetic tests, perhaps even meat from a test tube has a future...
...TheFinalClub.org, created by Harvard grads Andrew J. Magliozzi ’05 and Jay K. Bacrania ’05, features extensive annotations on literary classics like Macbeth, the Federalist Papers, and the Bible. But the real meat of the site is the detailed, organized, play-by-play lecture notes on Harvard classes ranging from Science B-47: “The Molecules of Life,” to the ever-popular Psychology 1504: “Positive Psychology.” The site is blogged by ambitious students, and sometimes even course...
...hydrocarbon-based fertilizers, to the gasoline needed to transport food to stores. At the same time, demand for grains has grown as developed countries produce more biofuels from food-crop feedstocks, and as people in China and India take advantage of their rapid income growth and start eating more meat (which requires more grain to feed more animals). Add to that a few short-term weather shocks, like drought in Australia, and emergency stores get depleted leaving prices to skyrocket. Fearful of food shortages, some large producer nations, including India, Vietnam and Kazakhstan, have limited exports. That can keep prices...