If you care about the planet and its inhabitants, you should read “How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meat”.
If you care about democracy and politics, you should read “How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meat”.
If you care about cheese, you should read “How I learned to stop worrying and love fake meat”.
All those subjects in a single coherent text? Yes, Jason Temple managed to do so. He uses two recent news items – on ‘cultured meat’ and ‘vegan cheese’ – to explain why there is no reason to be afraid of alternatives to meat and dairy products. He also rightly questions the motives of politicians and organisations that fight these alternatives with bogus laws and contest rules.
But in the case of the Florida law he does not go far enough. Politicians did not just give in to pressure from a big lobby group. Witness the letter sent by Republican politicians (including from Florida!) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan. That letter is quite threatening, and ends (!) with the sentence: “You have been warned .” Is this a western movie?
On Zeteo.com, you can read one response:
In a statement to Zeteo, Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland said, “It is fine to express opposition to a possible judicial action, but it is absolutely wrong to interfere in a judicial matter by threatening judicial officers, their family members and their employees with retribution. This thuggery is something befitting the mafia, not U.S. senators.”
No, Senator Van Hollen, it’s not just thuggery. Actually it is a typical fascist reaction! The authors are just (but barely) smart enough not to write an explicit death threat in their letter. The only good news from this letter is that the signatories accept the authority of the International Criminal Court – too bad they did not realise this before signing ;-)
Normally, in cases such as this I would pose the question: ‘What were you thinking?’. But to the signatories of this letter I can only say: ‘Were you thinking???’…
PS. The link to the Technology Review article may be behind a paywall – sorry!
PPS. Did the US Senate agree to the use of its letterhead for this kind of s**t?
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