{"id":627,"date":"2012-04-05T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2012-04-05T08:02:05","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T12:02:05","slug":"schadenfreude-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/schadenfreude-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Schadenfreude – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a bad week for the “better eating through chemistry” folks.\u00a0 The first animals approved for human consumption are not going to make it to your table…at least not yet.\u00a0 So-called”Enviro-pigs”, cloned in Canada, have not worked out after more than 10 years of experimenting.\u00a0 Scientists have lost their subsidies and so it’s back to the drawing board.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2012-04\/thats-all-folks-genetically-engineered-efficiently-pooping-pigs<\/a><\/p>\n

Some day we’ll get so educated we’ll discover that raising animals the natural way avoids all the unpleasant side-effects; such as manure lagoons and E.coli.\u00a0 Earlier this week we reported that techno-beef, A.K.A. “Pink Slime”, was being pulled from supermarket shelves because of a consumer revolt.<\/p>\n

There’s hope for us yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been a bad week for the “better eating through chemistry” folks.\u00a0 The first animals approved for human consumption are not going to make it to your table…at least not yet.\u00a0 So-called”Enviro-pigs”, cloned in Canada, have not worked out after more than 10 years of experimenting.\u00a0 Scientists have lost their subsidies and so it’s back to the drawing board. http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2012-04\/thats-all-folks-genetically-engineered-efficiently-pooping-pigs Some day we’ll get so educated we’ll discover that raising animals the natural way avoids all the unpleasant side-effects; such as manure lagoons and E.coli.\u00a0 Earlier this week we reported that techno-beef, A.K.A. “Pink Slime”, was being pulled from supermarket shelves because of a consumer revolt. There’s hope for us yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}