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In 1931 Winston Churchill was asked by The Strand Magazine to imagine the world 50 years hence. “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately,” he wrote. Churchill might have got his timing wrong, but a future where the meat on our plates has been cultured rather than butchered is finally coming into view.
A new wave of alternative meat start-ups in California, Europe and Israel is intent on disrupting the $1trn global meat industry. Today 77% of farmland worldwide is dedicated to raising and feeding livestock. Mike Selden of Finless Foods, a fishmeat-replacement start-up, envisions the day when meat production moves off the farm and into gigantic “1,000-litre bioreactors” that churn out new batches of cell-cultured products. It would be, as Jessica Glenza in The Guardian puts it, “like a brewery for meat”.
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TRAVERSE CITY â Three of Traverse Cityâs planning commissioners will rejoin the board for a new term, and an ad hoc committee will meet to interview candidates for a fourth seat.
Mayor Jim Carruthers found just enough support at a recent meeting for what he offered as a compromise amid a recurring battle among city commissioners over how mayoral appointments are selected.
City leaders voted 4-3 to reappoint Planning Commissioners Janet Fleshman, David Hassing and Heather Shaw, and to create a subcommittee to interview someone to fill the vacancy commission Chairwoman Linda Koebert will leave. She opted in June not to seek reappointment for various personal reasons, and wants to stay on through a Jan. 5 public hearing on some Eighth Street zoning changes, she said.