{"id":116988,"date":"2021-03-11T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=116988"},"modified":"2021-03-11T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T17:23:45","slug":"letter-urges-senators-to-support-cultured-meat-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=116988","title":{"rendered":"LETTER: Urges senators to support cultured meat research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>To the Editor:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I imagine there are animals Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand care about deeply \u2013 perhaps a dog or a cat. The truth is, there&#8217;s not much difference between these creatures and the more than a trillion aquatic and land animals we kill each year for human consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s why the senators should support federal funding for cultured meat research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For readers who don&#8217;t know, cultured meat is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. This revolutionary protein has already been granted regularity approval in Singapore. An Israeli company has reduced its production cost to $7.50 for a quarter pound of cultured chicken. Still, further development is necessary to make the price competitive with slaughtered meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jon Hochschartner, Granby, Conn.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: I imagine there are animals Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand care about deeply \u2013 perhaps a dog or a cat. The truth is, there&#8217;s not much difference between these creatures and the more than a trillion aquatic and land animals we kill each year for human consumption. That&#8217;s why the senators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}