{"id":117058,"date":"2021-03-18T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=117058"},"modified":"2021-03-18T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T14:05:22","slug":"letters-invest-in-cultured-meat-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=117058","title":{"rendered":"LETTERS: Invest in cultured meat research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To the Editor:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Way back in 1931, Winston Churchill predicted the rise of cultured meat. For those who don&#8217;t know, this revolutionary protein is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. It has only recently been granted regulatory approval in Singapore. An Israeli company has reduced its production cost to $7.50 for a quarter pound of cultured chicken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;With a greater knowledge of what are called hormones, i.e., the chemical messengers in our blood, it will be possible to control growth,&#8221; the future British leader wrote in Strand Magazine. &#8220;We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now more than ever, our food system is an absurdity. It&#8217;s environmentally destructive, terribly cruel and a potential breeding ground for pandemics. That&#8217;s why we need federal funding for cultured-meat research. We must bring this groundbreaking protein to market as quickly as possible at a price competitive with slaughtered meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Jon Hochschartner, Granby, Conn.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the Editor: Way back in 1931, Winston Churchill predicted the rise of cultured meat. For those who don&#8217;t know, this revolutionary protein is grown from animal cells, without slaughter. It has only recently been granted regulatory approval in Singapore. An Israeli company has reduced its production cost to $7.50 for a quarter pound of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23678,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letterstotheeditor","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-us2","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/opinion_letters1.jpg?fit=570%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117058","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=117058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}