{"id":756289,"date":"2019-02-23T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756289"},"modified":"2019-02-23T08:16:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T13:16:22","slug":"ending-the-age-of-animal-cruelty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=756289","title":{"rendered":"Ending the age of animal cruelty"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>We live in a moment when technology has made animal cruelty possible on a scale never imagined in human history, BUT we also live in a moment when technology is about to make that same animal cruelty unnecessary.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EZRA KLEIN:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;Industrial animal agriculture relies on engineering broiler chickens that grow almost seven times as quickly as they would naturally. It relies on pumping a majority of all the antibiotics used in the United States into farm animals to stop the infections that overcrowding would otherwise cause. A list like this could go on endlessly, but the point is simple: Industrial animal agriculture is not a natural food system. It is a marvel of modern science.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Although we live in a moment when technology has made animal cruelty possible on a scale never imagined in human history, we also live in a moment when technology may be about to make that same animal cruelty unnecessary. We\u2019re getting closer to being able to mimic meat using plant-based ingredients \u2014 arguably, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have already done so for ground beef \u2014 and grow meat from individual cells. And nothing changes a society\u2019s values as quickly as innovations that make a new moral system easy and cheap to adopt.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Bruce Friedrich is the head of the Good Food Institute, which invests in, advises, and advocates for the plant- and cell-based meat industries. That work puts him at the hot center of one of the most exciting and important technological stories of our age: the possible replacement of a cruel, environmentally unsustainable form of food production with a system that\u2019s better for the planet, better for animals, better for our health, and better for our souls. I spoke with Friedrich for my podcast, The Ezra Klein Show. Excerpts of our conversation, edited for length and clarity, follow&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2019\/1\/29\/18197907\/clean-meat-cell-plant-impossible-beyond-animal-cruelty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/liZtyP2tKhA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EZRA KLEIN: &#8216;Industrial animal agriculture relies on engineering broiler chickens that grow almost seven times as quickly as they would naturally. It relies on pumping a majority of all the antibiotics used in the United States into farm animals to stop the infections that overcrowding would otherwise cause. 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