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
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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…
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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…
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