{"id":24295,"date":"2019-03-05T22:01:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=24295"},"modified":"2019-03-05T22:01:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T04:01:18","slug":"natural-is-still-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/05\/natural-is-still-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Is Still Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this report will swiftly become obsolete as better methods are found for growing meat in a petri dish, but it&#8217;s still a bit dismaying. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg24132183-100-meat-in-a-dish-could-be-bad-for-the-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From<\/a> <strong><em>NewScientist<\/em><\/strong> (23 February 2019):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Lynch and Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Oxford compared the emissions from cattle-farming and lab-grown meat, and modelled their climate impact over 1000 years (<i>Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems<\/i>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/c2vs\">doi.org\/c2vs<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Livestock farming produces about 18 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, but lab-grown meat could have a bigger impact, thanks to its high energy requirements, which would mean high carbon dioxide emissions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It still answers those who cannot abide killing animals for food, but for the environmentalist, so far artificial meat is not acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that this report will swiftly become obsolete as better methods are found for growing meat in a petri dish, but it&#8217;s still a bit dismaying. From NewScientist (23 February 2019): John Lynch and Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Oxford compared the emissions from cattle-farming and lab-grown meat, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/03\/05\/natural-is-still-better\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}