{"id":732,"date":"2008-05-23T05:37:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T09:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2008-05-23T05:37:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T09:37:27","slug":"732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/23\/732\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The hypothetical meat labs won&#8217;t be carbon-neutral, but they&#8217;ll still be far greener than our current system for producing burgers and chops. Raising and slaughtering livestock on a large scale doesn&#8217;t just result in massive methane emissions due to bovine flatulence; it also creates waste-disposal nightmares, squanders valuable land, and guzzles an alarming amount of fossil fuel. So, yes, the environmentally conscious should keep their fingers crossed that lab-grown meat becomes a reality sooner rather than later. But given the numerous scientific challenges that remain, they shouldn&#8217;t get their hopes up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2191705\/?from=rss\">Will Lab-Grown Meat Save the Planet?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hypothetical meat labs won&#8217;t be carbon-neutral, but they&#8217;ll still be far greener than our current system for producing burgers and chops. Raising and slaughtering livestock on a large scale doesn&#8217;t just result in massive methane emissions due to bovine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/23\/732\/\">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":[9],"tags":[13,33],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-animals-in-agriculture","tag-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","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=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}