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Stunning new Hurricane Maria death toll confirms Puerto Rico’s devastating losses after the storm

[url=http://www.vox.com]www.vox.com[/url] - More than 4,600 Puerto Ricans may have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in large part due to delayed medical care, according to a new survey of people on the island collected and analyzed by …

 

Bridgewater Triples Bets Against Italian Firms to $3 Billion

 

[url=http://www.bloomberg.com]www.bloomberg.com[/url] - Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates is upping its bets against Italian banks and insurers ahead of the nation’s elections next month. The world’s largest hedge-fund firm…

 

Trump’s Right-Hand Troll

 

[url=http://www.theatlantic.com]www.theatlantic.com[/url] - t’s late on a Friday afternoon in March, and I’m sitting across from Stephen Miller in his spacious, sunlit West Wing office, trying to figure out whether he’s trolling me. This is no easy task. A pr…

 

Roseanne Barr was a gamble for ABC long before Tuesday's cancellation

 

[url=http://www.nbcnews.com]www.nbcnews.com[/url] - Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Almost exactly a year ago, ABC announced it would reboot one of its most beloved sitcoms, p…

 

Opinion | Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history

 

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com]www.washingtonpost.com[/url] - When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration. Now, on Memorial Day, he’s reaping the wreckage of talks abo…

Viking Fort Reveals Secrets of Danish King's Elaborate Military Network

 

[url=http://www.livescience.com]www.livescience.com[/url] - The discovery of a Viking-age fortress in Denmark has shed new light on a network of military sites built by the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth, according to archaeologists. Bluetooth — fo…

Trans Mountain pipeline opponents vow to keep fighting

grist.org - Canada is coughing up $3.5 billion to buy the floundering Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had vowed “to get that pipeline built,” but pipel…

Perspectives On Activism: Waiting And Being Present – Countercurrents

 

countercurrents.org - Photo by riagarwa “The more people I meet, the happier I become.” -Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot In the interregnum, we find ourselves as citizens waiting…for something. We bide our time with pab…

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer just blew the lid off the media’s coverup of Trump’s hush payments

 

washingtonpress.com - The story of Donald Trump and Michael Cohen’s illegal porn star hush money deal was just confirmed as a major election issue in the hands of the Wall Street Journal just five days before Americans ca…

White Fear: As the GOP Veers Toward Fascism, Establishment Democrats Face a Grassroots Insurgency

 

theintercept.com - ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have become authoritarian shock forces, operating with impunity, ripping children from their parents’ arms, and enforcing the anti-immigrant edicts of Trump…

Earliest Version of Our Alphabet Possibly Discovered

 

[url=http://www.livescience.com]www.livescience.com[/url] - The earliest example of our alphabet — a possible mnemonic phrase that helped someone remember "ABCD" — has been discovered on a 3,400-year-old inscribed piece of limestone from ancient Egypt, a scho…

Those Weird Italians: do They Really Think Italy is a Sovereign State? A Comment on the Recent Failure of Forming a New Government

 

cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - So, at some moment Italy may become again an independent state, as it was from 1861 to 1943. Most Italians, right now, seem to think that it would be a good idea. But will it be? Think about this: af…

America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

 

[url=http://www.globalresearch.ca]www.globalresearch.ca[/url] - Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his deman…

The Oil “Price” Is A Key Political Tool

 

[url=http://www.newsbud.com]www.newsbud.com[/url] - Times are tight enough … aaaand then fuel prices start to rise, further harming your pocket book, imminent travel plans, any sense of remaining monthly savings, and your general outlook for the futur…

After Charlottesville: how a slew of lawsuits pin down the far right

 

[url=http://www.theguardian.com]www.theguardian.com[/url] - On a searingly hot day beneath a Confederate statue surrounded by six “no trespassing” signs, Susan Bro talks to a Swedish TV crew. Then she makes a short walk to a street named after her daughter. “…

The Case of the Missing Immigrant Children

 

[url=http://www.newyorker.com]www.newyorker.com[/url] - “The children will be taken care of—put into foster care or whatever,” John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, told NPR last week, by way of explaining—or not explaining—what would happen to chil…

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Stunning new Hurricane Maria death toll confirms Puerto Rico’s devastating losses after the storm

[url=http://www.vox.com]www.vox.com[/url] - More than 4,600 Puerto Ricans may have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in large part due to delayed medical care, according to a new survey of people on the island collected and analyzed by …

Bridgewater Triples Bets Against Italian Firms to $3 Billion

[url=http://www.bloomberg.com]www.bloomberg.com[/url] - Billionaire hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates is upping its bets against Italian banks and insurers ahead of the nation’s elections next month. The world’s largest hedge-fund firm…

Trump’s Right-Hand Troll

[url=http://www.theatlantic.com]www.theatlantic.com[/url] - t’s late on a Friday afternoon in March, and I’m sitting across from Stephen Miller in his spacious, sunlit West Wing office, trying to figure out whether he’s trolling me. This is no easy task. A pr…

Roseanne Barr was a gamble for ABC long before Tuesday's cancellation

[url=http://www.nbcnews.com]www.nbcnews.com[/url] - Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Almost exactly a year ago, ABC announced it would reboot one of its most beloved sitcoms, p…

Opinion | Trump may be the worst presidential dealmaker in modern history

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com]www.washingtonpost.com[/url] - When May began, President Trump was presiding over diplomatic negotiations that could have delivered twin triumphs for his administration. Now, on Memorial Day, he’s reaping the wreckage of talks abo…

Viking Fort Reveals Secrets of Danish King's Elaborate Military Network

[url=http://www.livescience.com]www.livescience.com[/url] - The discovery of a Viking-age fortress in Denmark has shed new light on a network of military sites built by the 10th-century Danish king Harald Bluetooth, according to archaeologists. Bluetooth — fo…

Trans Mountain pipeline opponents vow to keep fighting

grist.org - Canada is coughing up $3.5 billion to buy the floundering Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from Kinder Morgan. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had vowed “to get that pipeline built,” but pipel…

Perspectives On Activism: Waiting And Being Present – Countercurrents

countercurrents.org - Photo by riagarwa “The more people I meet, the happier I become.” -Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot In the interregnum, we find ourselves as citizens waiting…for something. We bide our time with pab…

Stormy Daniels’ lawyer just blew the lid off the media’s coverup of Trump’s hush payments

washingtonpress.com - The story of Donald Trump and Michael Cohen’s illegal porn star hush money deal was just confirmed as a major election issue in the hands of the Wall Street Journal just five days before Americans ca…

White Fear: As the GOP Veers Toward Fascism, Establishment Democrats Face a Grassroots Insurgency

theintercept.com - ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection have become authoritarian shock forces, operating with impunity, ripping children from their parents’ arms, and enforcing the anti-immigrant edicts of Trump…

Earliest Version of Our Alphabet Possibly Discovered

[url=http://www.livescience.com]www.livescience.com[/url] - The earliest example of our alphabet — a possible mnemonic phrase that helped someone remember "ABCD" — has been discovered on a 3,400-year-old inscribed piece of limestone from ancient Egypt, a scho…

Those Weird Italians: do They Really Think Italy is a Sovereign State? A Comment on the Recent Failure of Forming a New Government

cassandralegacy.blogspot.com - So, at some moment Italy may become again an independent state, as it was from 1861 to 1943. Most Italians, right now, seem to think that it would be a good idea. But will it be? Think about this: af…

America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence | Global Research - Centre for Research on Globalization

[url=http://www.globalresearch.ca]www.globalresearch.ca[/url] - Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his deman…

The Oil “Price” Is A Key Political Tool

[url=http://www.newsbud.com]www.newsbud.com[/url] - Times are tight enough … aaaand then fuel prices start to rise, further harming your pocket book, imminent travel plans, any sense of remaining monthly savings, and your general outlook for the futur…

After Charlottesville: how a slew of lawsuits pin down the far right

[url=http://www.theguardian.com]www.theguardian.com[/url] - On a searingly hot day beneath a Confederate statue surrounded by six “no trespassing” signs, Susan Bro talks to a Swedish TV crew. Then she makes a short walk to a street named after her daughter. “…

The Case of the Missing Immigrant Children

[url=http://www.newyorker.com]www.newyorker.com[/url] - “The children will be taken care of—put into foster care or whatever,” John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, told NPR last week, by way of explaining—or not explaining—what would happen to chil…

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Reports From Greece - 13 Part Series

[url=http://www.unicornriot.ninja]www.unicornriot.ninja[/url]- During the summer of 2017, Unicorn Riot documented over a dozen stories from Athens, Greece. The stories were varied, most displaying networks of mutual aid, including housing, healthcare, food, deta…

Gowdy: FBI acted properly with use of informant during 2016 campaign

 

thehill.com - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey GowdyHarold (Trey) Watson GowdyTrump in Nashville claims people were 'infiltrating' his campaign Gowdy: FBI acted properly with use of in…

 

How Donald Trump is weaponising the courts for political ends

 

[url=http://www.theguardian.com]www.theguardian.com[/url] - It was a startling omission even according to the peculiar moral norms of the Trump era. When Wendy Vitter, one of the US president’s judicial nominees, was asked whether she supported the supreme co…

 

F.B.I. Official Wrote Secret Memo Fearing Trump Got a Cover Story for Comey Firing

 

[url=http://www.nytimes.com]www.nytimes.com[/url] - But Mr. Trump quickly undercut that statement, telling NBC News that he had planned to fire Mr. Comey even before receiving Mr. Rosenstein’s memo. “And in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said t…

 

Opinion | Call out his lies. He depends on them.

 

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com]www.washingtonpost.com[/url] - By now, we know that President Trump is a lying demagogue. Because this is not said often enough, he has been allowed to routinize lying and enshrine the vilest forms of divisiveness as a normal part…

 

Turkey's Gama Said in Talks to Restructure $1 Billion Debt

 

[url=http://www.bloomberg.com]www.bloomberg.com[/url] - Gama Holding AS, an Ankara-based investor with interests spanning energy, construction, hospital management and manufacturing, is in talks with lenders to restructure as much as $1 billion of debt ow…

 

Poland Wants a Permanent U.S. Military Base, and is Willing to Pay $2 Billion for It

 

[url=http://www.mintpressnews.com]www.mintpressnews.com[/url] - WARSAW, POLAND — As a result of the ongoing increase in NATO expansionism, the perceived threat of the mere existence of Russia has reached a tipping point in Poland, thanks to near-constant anti-Rus…

 

How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google

 

[url=http://www.nytimes.com]www.nytimes.com[/url] - Last Thursday, Mr. Brin, the company’s co-founder, responded to a question at a companywide meeting about Google’s work on Maven. According to two Google employees, Mr. Brin said he understood the co…

 

U.S. CEOs Are World’s Best – For Themselves

 

[url=http://www.commondreams.org]www.commondreams.org[/url] - No single statistic, in isolation, tells us particularly much. Numbers only gain real meaning when we compare them. Take, for instance, the figure for the increase in CEO pay last year at major Ameri…

 

The Right-Wing Millennial Machine

 

[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com]www.huffingtonpost.com[/url] - After he graduated from college, it took Nathan two years, three unpaid internships and six bartending and retail jobs before he got his first paid gig in progressive politics. His employer was a sma…

 

Virginia General Assembly approves Medicaid expansion to 400,000 low-income residents

 

[url=http://www.washingtonpost.com]www.washingtonpost.com[/url] - RICHMOND — The Virginia legislature voted Wednesday to make government health insurance available to 400,000 low-income residents, overcoming five years of GOP resistance. The decision marks a leftwa…

 

New emails reveal Trump’s EPA buried major toxic drinking water study

 

shareblue.com - The White House and the EPA suppressed a report showing dangerous levels of toxic chemicals in the U.S. water supply because they feared it would cause a 'public relations nightmare,' according to ne…

 

How the Trump Administration Got Comfortable Separating Immigrant Kids from Their Parents

 

[url=http://www.newyorker.com]www.newyorker.com[/url] - Two months into Donald Trump’s Presidency, John Kelly, then the Secretary of Homeland Security, publicly confirmed that his department was considering separating immigrant parents from their children…

 

How to Prep Your Home for an Emergency Situation

 

[url=http://www.doomsdaymoose.com]www.doomsdaymoose.com[/url] - Thinking about emergencies is never fun. It’s impossible to deny that emergencies are a possibility, however. If you want to make sure your residential property is always 100 percent ready for urgent…

 

‘We were close to direct conflict between Russia & US inside Syria’ – Bashar Assad

 

[url=http://www.rt.com]www.rt.com[/url] - “With every move forward for the Syrian Army, and for the political process, and for the whole situation, our enemies and our opponents, mainly the West led by the United States and their puppets in …

 

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Naomi Klein promotes pro-war, pro-austerity NDP as antidote to populist far-right

[url=http://www.wsws.org]www.wsws.org[/url] - The well-known author and “social justice” activist Naomi Klein is pleading for working people and the “left” to rally behind the NDP—Canada’s pro-war, pro-austerity social-democratic party—in the Ju…

 

So Is the North Korea Summit Back On, or What?

[url=http://www.theatlantic.com]www.theatlantic.com[/url] - The last time a North Korean official as high-ranking as Kim Yong Chol came to the United States, for example, was in the fall of 2000, when Jo Myong Rok sat down with Bill Clinton in the Oval Office…

 

U.S. Allies Hit Back as Trump Revokes Steel Tariff Reprieve

[url=http://www.bloomberg.com]www.bloomberg.com[/url] - America’s closest allies plan to slap billions of dollars in tit-for-tat tariffs on U.S. goods after the Trump administration announced it’s imposing steel and aluminum duties on them. The reaction w…

 

Prosecutors hid mountains of evidence in trial of Trump inauguration protesters

 

thinkprogress.org - Federal prosecutors hid scores of videos from the hundreds of anti-Trump demonstrators they charged with serious felonies in an unprecedented crackdown on Inauguration Day protests, defense lawyers a…

 

Leaked Emails Show Google Expected Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially

theintercept.com - The internal Google email chain also notes that several big tech players competed to win the Project Maven contract. Other tech firms such as Amazon were in the running, one Google executive involved…

Caravan for the Disappeared

[url=http://www.guernicamag.com]www.guernicamag.com[/url] - Liliam stared out the window of the bus as it rumbled down the highway. She had come to Mexico for three weeks to look for her sister, Jaqueline. Eleven years ago, Jaqueline had tried to immigrate to…

Trump's pardon of Dinesh D'Souza signals he'll also pardon anyone caught up in the Mueller probe

[url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com]www.washingtonexaminer.com[/url] - President Trump might say that his pardon of conservative author Dinesh D'Souza is about correcting an injustice. But it isn't. This pardon is motivated by Trump's desire for a catharsis and to fire …

Trump to impose total ban on luxury German cars: report

thehill.com - President TrumpDonald John TrumpKoch brothers company tweets support for Kim Kardashian after Trump meeting Romney reveals he wrote in wife's name for president in 2016 Pompeo has dinner with top Nor…

Donald Trump is gaslighting his base about why he fired James Comey

[url=http://www.salon.com]www.salon.com[/url] - Gaslighting, if you're unfamiliar with the term, refers to the manipulative practice of planting the seeds of doubt about how other people perceive reality, with the hope that in so doing you can get…

Opinion | The Silence of the Bugs

[url=http://www.nytimes.com]www.nytimes.com[/url] - So there it is. Could it be that whatever might be causing these insect deaths could be a threat to us too? The widely reported decline of honeybees in the United States pales in comparison with the …

You May Have a 'Second Brain' in Your Butt... And It's Smarter Than You Think

[url=http://www.livescience.com]www.livescience.com[/url] - You're reading these words because you have a brain in your head. But did you know you also have a brain in your butt? OK, not a literal brain — more of an autonomous matrix of millions of neurons th…

Looking for Life on a Flat Earth

 

[url=http://www.newyorker.com]www.newyorker.com[/url] - On the last Sunday afternoon in March, Mike Hughes, a sixty-two-year-old limousine driver from Apple Valley, California, successfully launched himself above the Mojave Desert in a homemade steam-powe…

How Coke spun the public on its water use

 

[url=http://www.theverge.com]www.theverge.com[/url] - When Coca-Cola announced plans earlier this year to recycle the equivalent of 100 percent of its packaging by 2030, the company touted the effort as building on its success with sustainable water use…

Dorothy Allison: Tender to the Bone

 

[url=http://www.guernicamag.com]www.guernicamag.com[/url] - “I don’t believe in being safe or right,” Dorothy Allison says to a group of men and women gathered around a writing workshop table. She pushes up her sleeves and rakes her fingers through her long h…

There Is a Whole World Inside Every Plant

 

[url=http://www.atlasobscura.com]www.atlasobscura.com[/url] - In Corvallis, Oregon, Posy Busby works in a garden planted with 3,000 black cottonwood trees that represent 1,000 unique genetic specimens, each originally found somewhere on the West Coast of North …

The Real Venezuela Is Not What You Think

 

popularresistance.org - Above Photo: Joshua Goodman/AP The U.S. press doesn’t tell you what Maduro has done for the poor Daniel Kovalik teaches international human rights at the University of Pittsburgh Law School. His most…

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The planet wants you to stop eating so much meat and dairy

 

grist.org - A new, comprehensive analysis came to a regrettable conclusion for all you cheeseburger lovers out there: The earth has a beef with your meat and dairy consumption. A vegan diet is “probably the sing…

 

Trump’s big summit with Kim Jong Un is officially back on

[url=http://www.vox.com]www.vox.com[/url] - President Donald Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after all. After meeting with a top North Korean official in the White House on Friday, Trump said that the meeting with Kim is b…

 

Here's What Happens When an Airstrike Hits Your Street

 

[url=http://www.mintpressnews.com]www.mintpressnews.com[/url] - SANA’A, YEMEN — The late morning sun conspired with a cloudless blue sky to frame the Al Tahir commercial district here in a shimmering champagne glow. With the noon hour approaching, swatches of lif…

 

Gaza Massacre Update: “Decent Humanity” Will Boycott Apartheid Israel and All Its Supporters

 

[url=http://www.globalresearch.ca]www.globalresearch.ca[/url] - The latest Israeli Gaza Massacre in which Apartheid Israeli soldiers shot and killed 116 unarmed Palestinian protesters and wounded 13,000, has divided the world into 2 camps, (1) the Good,those who …

 

Trump's Power Isn't Fear. It's Fatigue.

 

[url=http://www.buzzfeed.com]www.buzzfeed.com[/url] - Ever since the beginning of his presidency, we have watched Trump vainly endeavor to apply this approach, especially to global affairs. In his efforts to strong-arm other countries, Trump has often p…

 

D'Souza's Ex-Wife Urged Judge To Throw The Book At Him: He's An Abusive Liar!

 

talkingpointsmemo.com - Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza’s ex-wife alleged in a letter sent this week to the federal court that heard his criminal case that D’Souza was abusive, that he lied in his defense against the …

 

The New Estimate of Deaths in Puerto Rico Reflects a Broader and Shameful Neglect

 

[url=http://www.newyorker.com]www.newyorker.com[/url] - After Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, last September 20th, leaving three and a half million Americans without power, clean water, or access to medical care, President Donald Trump publicly sugges…

 

UN: US inequality reaching a dangerous level due to Trump's 'cruel' measures

 

[url=http://www.theguardian.com]www.theguardian.com[/url] - Donald Trump is deliberately forcing millions of Americans into financial ruin, cruelly depriving them of food and other basic protections while lavishing vast riches on the super-wealthy, the United…

 

More Evidence of Increasing Deflationary Pressure on Wages | naked capitalism

[url=http://www.nakedcapitalism.com]www.nakedcapitalism.com[/url] - By NewdealDemocrat. Originally published at Angry Bear One of my pet peeves is that economics as a discipline needs to import the entirety of learning theory from psychology, not just parlor tricks l…

 

Massive Poppy Bust: Why Home-Grown Opium Is Rare

 

[url=http://www.livescience.com]www.livescience.com[/url] - Editor's Note: This story was updated at 11:20 a.m. E.T. on Tuesday June 13 A North Carolina man was arrested last month when police discovered an acre of opium poppies growing in his yard. The alleg…

 

Why Protecting Sources and Methods Really Matters

 

[url=http://www.thecipherbrief.com]www.thecipherbrief.com[/url] - In my thirty-four years in law enforcement, I met with many confidential human sources working against terrorism, counter intelligence and violent crime targets. I met them in inner city neighborhoo…

 

Bombshell report reveals Trump could be indicted under seal without his knowledge

 

[url=http://www.rawstory.com]www.rawstory.com[/url] - Berkeley, California attorney Alexander Stern, released a bombshell report on Friday that suggests President Donald Trump may be under a sealed indictment without even knowing. The report gathered ei…

 

Here's How Much Exercise You Need to Give Your Brain a Boost

 

[url=http://www.livescience.com]www.livescience.com[/url] - Physical activity is good for both the body and mind. Indeed, doctors have long known that exercise improves thinking and slows the rate of cognitive decline, particularly among older adults. But wha…

 

Here’s the Email Russian Hackers Used to Try to Break Into State Voting Systems

 

theintercept.com - The screenshot, shown below, confirms NSA reporting that the email purported to originate from the vendor, Tallahassee-based VR Systems, but was sent from a Gmail account, which could have easily tri…

 

The West is ill-prepared for the wave of “deep fakes” that artificial intelligence could unleash

 

[url=http://www.brookings.edu]www.brookings.edu[/url] - Russian disinformation has become a problem for European governments. In the last two years, Kremlin-backed campaigns have spread false stories alleging that French President Emmanuel Macron was back…

 

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The planet wants you to stop eating so much meat and dairy

https://grist.org/article/the-planet-wants-you-to-stop-eating-so-much-meat-and-dairy/

Surly, It seems technology may come to the rescue in this area.   

Global food producer invests in Israeli lab meat technology

Arkansas-based meat processing giant Tyson Foods leads investment round in Jerusalem startup Future Meat Technologies, a maker of meat from cells


                                 
  Future Meat Technologies' first cultured chicken kebab on grilled eggplant and tahini sauce at the Machneyuda restaurant

One of the world’s largest food producers is betting on Israeli technology to find ways to grow meat without raising or slaughtering animals.

Israeli startup Future Meat Technologies said Wednesday that it raised $2.2 million in a seed investment round co-led by Tyson Ventures, the venture capital arm of Tyson Foods, Inc. Tyson Foods, based in Arkansas, US, is a Fortune 100 company and a processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork.

Future Meat Technologies is a Jerusalem-based biotechnology company that seeks to create cultured meat directly from animal cells through the production of fat and muscle cells, the core building blocks of meat, in a cost-effective manner.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/global-food-producer-invests-in-israeli-lab-meat-technology/ 

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The planet wants you to stop eating so much meat and dairy

https://grist.org/article/the-planet-wants-you-to-stop-eating-so-much-meat-and-dairy/

Surly, It seems technology may come to the rescue in this area.   

Global food producer invests in Israeli lab meat technology

Arkansas-based meat processing giant Tyson Foods leads investment round in Jerusalem startup Future Meat Technologies, a maker of meat from cells



  Future Meat Technologies' first cultured chicken kebab on grilled eggplant and tahini sauce at the Machneyuda restaurant
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Future Meat Technologies is a Jerusalem-based biotechnology company that seeks to create cultured meat directly from animal cells through the production of fat and muscle cells, the core building blocks of meat, in a cost-effective manner.

GO, thanks for posting.

Of course, I'm sure the manufacture of this product takes energy. I assume the tradeoffs would be worth it and beneficial.

And then there is the taste. I've never had it, but (I'm sure both of us have had) soy pressed meat substitute, most often used as an extender. Ugh. This is very different.

Over time the tech will improve. Like me you are old enough to remember when freeze dried mashed potatoes first came out. Awful. Forty years later, they are pretty good.

I remain atavistic, with a continued affinity for meat products. Although vegetarian meals are generally excellent. Me, I'd just do the eggplant.

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I try to stay away from too much meat after becoming conscious of health and diet issues in my Senior years Surly.

Can you believe ass hole me never knew about these environmental problem from meat production until recently.

Some of us were just too busy earning a living and trying to figure our life and more mundane matters in our youth and middle age.

My conscience is clear, I meant no harm and never thought of these matters, but sure feel like a jackass.

City boys like me are particularly unaware of these issues is my assumption. Farms were something you got a glimpse of now and then on a family ride at foliage season, and meat was something the supermarket had in the back room that they placed on shelves and my father always bitched about how expensive it was getting. Hamburg was 29 cents a lb then, bologna a dime a lb, and a pound of choice sirloin the outrageous price of around 1.29. 

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"Cultured Meat Products" will NEVER replace the real thing.  Nothing can match a Moose Tongue right after the kill.  I hope to be dead before the only "meat" products on the shelves are "cultured" and all the employees are robots.

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I try to stay away from too much meat after becoming conscious of health and diet issues in my Senior years Surly.

Can you believe ass hole me never knew about these environmental problem from meat production until recently.

Some of us were just too busy earning a living and trying to figure our life and more mundane matters in our youth and middle age.

Just like all of us. I am quite sure I had absolutely no idea about the environmental impacts of cattle raising until maybe a decade ago. Now I certainly was aware of the cruelty of certain practices for much longer. But was never moved to change my behavior much, aside from ceasing to eat veal.

When you grow up in the lap of luxury, and milk comes in a carton and meat in plastic wrap, what's to worry? Now we (and more importantly, our children and grandchildren) are going to inherit a more crowded and increasingly trashed planet. It's important for each of to do what we can where we can, as we are so moved. Never too late to make a small difference.

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Prince Alwaleed Reveals Secret Deal Struck to Exit Ritz After 83 Days

Fuck him Surly and that whole Royal Family of no good Pricks in Saudi Arabia.

Worthless scum all of them. Nothing constructive about them as they bleed the world dry financially and we have the audacity to protect these fucking zeroes.

Not diminishing you posting in any way Surly, found the pampering of this jerk off by the press rather enlightening, but truly feel what these rotten bastards are doing to the people in Yemen should be what the press and MSM are focused on. I hope these so called kings and princes of the dessert all lock each other up in a prison, and the one I have in mind sure isn't the Ritz.

                                   

                                    68 civilian deaths in Yemen in one day

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/world/middleeast/un-yemen-war.html

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Prince Alwaleed Reveals Secret Deal Struck to Exit Ritz After 83 Days

Fuck him Surly and that whole Royal Family of no good Pricks in Saudi Arabia.

Worthless scum all of them. Nothing constructive about them as they bleed the world dry financially and we have the audacity to protect these fucking zeroes.

Not diminishing you posting in any way Surly, found the pampering of this jerk off by the press rather enlightening, but truly feel what these rotten bastards are doing to the people in Yemen should be what the press and MSM are focused on. I hope these so called kings and princes of the dessert all lock each other up in a prison, and the one I have in mind sure isn't the Ritz.

I don't disagree in any way.

With the Saudi regime locked up with the USA, led by Israel in a (proxy, for now) war with Iran, WWIII seems inevitable. If Bolton doesn't start it in Korea first.

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