{"id":181,"date":"2008-04-24T00:03:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T05:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=181"},"modified":"2008-04-24T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T05:03:41","slug":"a-more-measured-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"A more measured approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday <i>The New York Times<\/i> published an editorial about the one million dollar prize that <i>PETA<\/i> is offering for the &#8220;first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.&#8221; <i>The Times&#8217;<\/i> response was interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We prefer a more measured approach. Ensure the least possible cruelty to animals, by all means, and raise them in ways that are both ethical and environmentally sound. But also treasure the cultural and historical bond between humans and domesticated animals. Historically speaking, they exist only because of the uses we have found for them, and preserving their existence means, in most cases, preserving the uses we have made for them. It will be a barren world if the herds and flocks disappear in favor of meat grown in a laboratory tank.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By changing just a few words of the above paragraph, we can apply this interesting logic to other contexts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We prefer a more measured approach. Ensure the least possible cruelty to slaves, by all means, and raise them in ways that are both ethical and environmentally sound. But also treasure the cultural and historical bond between us and our slaves. Historically speaking, they exist only because of the uses we have found for them, and preserving their existence means, in most cases, preserving the uses we have made for them. It will be a barren world if the happy slaves singing in the fields disappear in favor of crops harvested by machines.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday The New York Times published an editorial about the one million dollar prize that PETA is offering for the &#8220;first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.&#8221; The Times&#8217; response was interesting: &#8220;We prefer a more measured approach. Ensure the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=181\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A more measured approach&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}