{"id":16,"date":"2006-06-10T09:19:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2006-06-10T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T13:19:01","slug":"16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/10\/16\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Tube Meat and Test Tube Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 340px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/testtuberat.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/testtuberat.gif\" class=\"size-full wp-image\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The future shape of a test tube rat?<\/figcaption><\/figure>First, there was test tube or cultured<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.meatnews.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&#038;artNum=9853\">meat<\/a>. Animal protein grown in a test tube for human consumption. <\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s the test tube <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurelcorp.com\/index.html\">rat<\/a>. A microchip that uses clumps of cells from different organs linked by fluid-filled channels.<\/p>\n<p>The former sounds to the Grumpy Vegan like the revolting meat analogues all the rage in an alarming, increasing number of vegetarian\/vegan restaurants. But if the masses were to like it, well, who am I to complain?<\/p>\n<p>The latter has the promise of contributing toward the demise of animal experimentation &#8211; claims, it should be noted, denied by Hurel Corps, Michael Shuler. &#8220;We&#8217;re not using this to replace animal studies. We&#8217;re trying to have more intelligent use of animals,&#8221; he said. (<em>Nature<\/em>, May 5, 2005) <\/p>\n<p>Test tube meat. Test tube rats. What&#8217;s next? Test tube \u2026 answers in an e-mail, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, there was test tube or cultured meat. Animal protein grown in a test tube for human consumption. Now it&#8217;s the test tube rat. A microchip that uses clumps of cells from different organs linked by fluid-filled channels. The former &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/10\/16\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,31],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","tag-animals-in-research","tag-testing-and-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}