{"id":2924,"date":"2008-04-23T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T21:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/i-am-a-vegetarian-and-i-love-meat\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:55:36","slug":"i-am-a-vegetarian-and-i-love-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/i-am-a-vegetarian-and-i-love-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a vegetarian and I love meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sentence sounds a bit strange, doesn&#8217;t it? But in the near future it could be reality, at least for vegetarians who don&#8217;t eat meat in order to protest against industrialized mass-killing of animals, which is the sad reality of today&#8217;s meat production industry (40 billion animals are killed every year alone in the U.S.).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/pig.gif\" alt=\"I love pigs\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>But since a while scientists around the world are researching to produce meat in the laboratory <em>without<\/em> killing animals. It&#8217;s called in-vitro meat production which uses a medium to grow meat. I guess it&#8217;s similar to growing plants. But you can imagine that the meat industry is not very thrilled by that idea and won&#8217;t support research in that field. That&#8217;s the reason why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\">PETA<\/a> (= People for the ethical treatment of animals) stepped in and are offering a 1$ million reward to the first scientists to produce and bring in-vitro meat to the market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/feat_in_vitro_contest.asp\">More info to that reward can be found on the web site of PETA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know exactly what to think about it. On the one hand it sounds like a plausible and great idea, but on the other hand I don&#8217;t if we &#8211; as human beings &#8211; are going too far in that point: is an in-vitro grown meat alive? Does it hurt someone? I think these are ethical questions, but killing 40 billion animals&#8230; that&#8217;s definitely not ok either.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/love.gif\" alt=\"Love\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>By the way I became a vegetarian because I cannot support the meat industry anymore. And I don&#8217;t even miss real meat because there are excellent tofu products available which mimic meat just perfectly. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"GoVeg.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.GoVeg.com?c=gvbanner04\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/actioncenter\/images\/webbanners\/goveg_madmeat.gif\" alt=\"GoVeg.com\" height=\"60\" width=\"460\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Written by <a href=\"http:\/\/chriscar.com\">Chris Car<\/a> for Vu d\u2019ici<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/actioncenter\/webbanners.asp\">More banners on Peta2.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sentence sounds a bit strange, doesn&#8217;t it? But in the near future it could be reality, at least for vegetarians who don&#8217;t eat meat in order to protest against industrialized mass-killing of animals, which is the sad reality of today&#8217;s meat production industry (40 billion animals are killed every year alone in the U.S.).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/23\/i-am-a-vegetarian-and-i-love-meat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am a vegetarian and I love meat<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2924\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}