Lab Meat: Survey Results
Last month we created a lab meat survey to take the temperature of both veg*ns and nonvegetarians about attitudes towards in vitro meat and to what extent animal harm played a role in resistance to eating it. I reviewed some of the results in the show but for a more detailed analysis, including graphs, keep reading after the jump.
Born Vegan: the parents’ turn
After the strong response to our last show (grown-ups remembering their vegan childhoods) and the new children’s book Vegan is Love garnering widespread media attention , we’re talking to the people who are raising vegan children.
What do you tell children about where other people’s food comes from? What happens when they stay over in a friends’ home?
We’re going to discuss these and other challenges with vegan parents at VegfestUK in Bristol England on Sunday May 27th – but we’d really like to hear from people bringing kids up vegan from the rest of the world first.
Please leave us a Skype voicemail (user “vegan.option”), comment on this blog posts, or – particularly if you’d prefer a swift Skype chat to leaving a message, email me (ian@theveganoption.org).
Born Vegan: from 1976 UK TV to the Hebrew Israelites, three very different vegan childhoods
Born Vegan
What is it like to grow up vegan in a non-vegan world? We hear three stories of vegan childhood:
- Rosemary- appeared as a baby on a BBC programme about veganism in 1976
- Elishama - grew up in the Hebrew Israelites, a religious community trying to rebuild the lifestyle of Eden
- Andrew – the son of veteran animal activists
On Anthropomorphism: Ladybug playing?
Just so nobody accuses me of bias I’m going to begin with an example of anthropomorphism that is pretty benign, and could help people identify sympathetically with insects.
On Anthropomorphism: A Short Introduction
One of the main ways that animal interests are misunderstood is through anthropomorphism. In order to explore this I’m going to publish an occasional blog with examples of anthropomorphism from the media and, usually, a comment from an animal behavior or other expert about the motivations of the nonhuman animals portrayed.
But, what exactly is anthropomorphism?
Lab Meat: Can in vitro meat save the animals? With Nicholas Genovese, David Pearce, and Jordi Casamitjana
Lab Meat
A future with cheap lab meat could be drastically different – for humans and animals. How would it work? And is the development of this technology good for animals?
Ian talks to Nicholas Genovese, a PETA-funded scientist working on the stem cells that could make up what he calls cultured meat. I ask two vegans, transhuman philosopher David Pearce and activist Jordi Casamitjana, why they are for or against in vitro meat; and I reveal the results of my survey. Will vegans and meat eaters ever be able to get beyond the “ick” factor of cultured meat?
VegfestUK Awards Nomination and our next show
We are very excited to have been nominated for the VegfestUK Awards 2012 in the “Best Media Publications and Websites” category. As the stars say, it’s an honor just to be nominated but VOTE VOTE VOTE for us before May 25th.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave like Al-Ma’arri you will no doubt know the media has been abuzz about in vitro meat (aka lab meat, shmeat) and the possibility of an incredibly expensive burger as soon as next fall. Our next episode deals with the issues involved but also hopes to shed some new light on the subject. Take the survey (which takes just a minute) and The survey has finished but stay tuned to find out the results.
Rebel Poet: Benjamin Zephaniah discusses the life of Abul ʿala Al-Maʿarri (أبو العلاء المعري), the medieval Arab vegan philosopher poet
Rebel Poet: The Life of Al-Ma’arri
A thousand years ago, Al-Ma’arri was writing Arabic poems of extreme complexity, promoting a rational ideal and most remarkably, making an ethical case for veganism. We tell the story of his life in conversation with fellow vegan rebel poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
Rebel Poet marches fourth
I will finish editing our next show – about rebel poet Al-Ma’arri, with Benjamin Zephaniah – this weekend. Other commitments intervened, and I’m sorry not to send it your way in February. Just a few more days to go.
Rebel Poet: What do you think of al-Ma’arri? [أبو العلاء المعري]
Our next show is going to be a contrast. It’s about a blind medieval middle eastern poet with an extraordinary personal philosophy and revolutionary poetic style.
Contemporaries called him “the son of the sublime”. Whilst he strove to be a recluse, students and academics came from all over the Arab world to learn at his feet.
Two centuries before Dante, he wrote an Arab Divine Comedy. Seven centuries before the Enlightenment, he promoted rationalism over revelation. And – why he’s so interesting to us – nine centuries before the word “vegan”, he refused to exploit other animals.
Can you imagine what is was like to encourage others to renounce meat, dairy, and honey in eleventh century Syria?
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