Paul Shapiro lives in California and is the author of Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World.
He tweets from @PaulHShapiro.
Paul Shapiro
By Paul Shapiro
-
Community Lab-Grown Fish — Coming Soon To Your Local Supermarket?
A young, bearded Jew has only a tiny amount of fish, but thousands of hungry human mouths crying to be fed. You know what happens next: Amazingly, he miraculously multiplies the fish in order to feed the multitudes. No, this isn’t Jesus performing a biblical miracle in the vicinity of Bethlehem. Rather, this modern-day miracle…
-
Opinion Fighting Animal Cruelty Now May Be Like Battling Segregation Yesterday
“It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves,” writes Princeton philosopher Peter Singer in his book “Practical Ethics.” “It is more difficult,” he continues, “to distance ourselves from our own beliefs so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among them.” Indeed, when it comes…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Music Critics say Kendrick Lamar was too loud and hard to understand — they said the same thing about Bob Dylan in Newport
- 2
Opinion Why does Trump’s Gaza plan sound so familiar? Because the Nazis tried it first
- 3
Fast Forward Trump to ‘defend the rights of Christians,’ announces new faith initiative led by controversial televangelist
- 4
Music In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish heritage’
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion My ancestors left their homelands to escape antisemitism. Will my son have to leave the U.S. because he’s trans?
-
Fast Forward Netflix’s ‘Apple Cider Vinegar’ features a Jewish-run ‘cancer clinic.’ What is it?
-
Looking Forward What will you do if ICE shows up at your synagogue?
-
Fast Forward Are charter schools public schools? The question that has divided educators now has religious implications.
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
