Friday, November 23rd, 2018
Juliette Michel, - Medical Press
Stephan: This is going to be a very interesting trend to follow. Laboratory meat, if it has no negative health implications, would be good news indeed.
“Lab meat”‘s backers argue avoiding slaughtering animals will reduce both suffering and greenhouse emissions
US authorities on Friday agreed on how to regulate food products cultured from animal cells—paving the way to get so-called “lab meat” on American plates.
The Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration agreed to share regulation of cell-cultured food products, they said in a joint statement, following a public meeting in October.
While technical details have yet to be confirmed, the FDA would oversee the collection and differentiation of cells—when stem cells develop to specialized cells— while USDA would oversee production and labeling of food products.
“This regulatory framework will leverage both the FDA’s experience regulating cell-culture technology and living biosystems and the USDA’s expertise in regulating livestock and poultry products for human consumption,” the statement said, adding that the agencies see no need for legislation on the matter.
The question of whether to approve cell-cultured food products has never really arisen in the US. In fact, several niche “lab-meat” startups already exist, but production costs are […]
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Friday, November 23rd, 2018
Jared Holt, - Right Wing Watch
Stephan: Early Middle Eastern Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) thinking is alive and a substantial force in 21st century America. When you enter the christofascist world you enter a domain alive with demons, witchcraft, and satanism, where science and facts can be demonic. No. Really. Millions of Americans actually believe this. Here is an example.
Dan Gainor
Dan Gainor, Media Research Center’s vice president for business and culture, told Breitbart News radio listeners this morning that “pro-science” media outlets shouldn’t be trusted because they simultaneously run astrology columns, and also accused those outlets of embracing witchcraft.
Gainor joined host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow this morning on SirusXM’s “Breitbart News Daily” to criticize mainstream media outlets for not covering anti-fascist demonstrators as if they’re organized terror cells. The conversation veered off course near the end of the interview, with Gainor railing against outlets that publish astrological horoscopes but have the audacity to challenge conservatives on their denial of climate change.
“Look at all the pro-science people, all the pro-science outlets that run astrology,” Gainor said. “Hey, Washington Post, you want to bash conservatives about science—you run an astrology column. Hey, how many outlets do that? Vice does that. Broadly and all these other wack-job women’s websites all have astrology because they’ve all embraced Wicca.”
“One of the outlets has a witchcraft correspondent,” he said. “They don’t have Christian correspondents. They […]
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
Stephan: To all my American readers I send you my very best wishes for a lovely Thanksgiving, and I thank all of you who have supported SR for your gracious and generous support. It is very much appreciated.
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Arwa Mahdawi, - Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan: This is a lead story in The Guardian, one of the most prestigious and widely read newspapers in the English language. Never in my life did I ever expect to see such an article in such a publication. This is what America's gun psychosis has wrought. How do you feel about the world thinking of the United States as an unsafe country, that people are being warned not to visit?
There are no safe spaces in America when it comes to gun violence; the NRA is turning the entire country into a no-go zone.’
Credit: Xinhua/Barcroft Images
Five people have died after three shootings across America on Monday night. A gunman killed three people at Mercy hospital in Chicago; one person died and four were injured at a shooting near Coors Field in Colorado; and a woman was shot dead at a religious supply store near St Louis.
“You can’t go to the hospital, you can’t go to school, you can’t go to church, you can’t go to the grocery store,” one woman caught up in the Mercy hospital shooting told CBS News. “You can’t go anywhere … You never know when you walk into a place if you’re going to come out alive.”
She’s right. Monday’s violence means that there have now been 316 mass shooting incidents in America this year, according to […]
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Murtaza Hussain , - The Intercept
Stephan: The United States is the world's principal source of violent death, misery, and mayhem. Aren't you proud? Neither am I. As an American I am ashamed of my country and I think Congressional Democrats and Republicans and presidents are to blame. I think all of this is possible because only one percent of the American population is involved in the military now.
Afghan men offer funeral prayers for civilians killed in a NATO airstrike, on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Oct. 5, 2013.
Credit: Nisar Ahmad/AP
How many people have been killed in the post-9/11 war on terror? The question is a contentious one, as there has been no formal accounting for the deadly cost of the initial U.S. interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the secondary conflicts that continue to wreak havoc across the Middle East and the opaque, covert war still expanding across Asia and Africa.
But even as the U.S. government evades responsibility for the human cost of its overseas endeavors, some researchers are determined to keep count.
Brown University’s Costs of War Project this month released a new estimate of the total death toll from the U.S. wars in three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The numbers, while conservatively estimated, are staggering. Brown’s researchers estimate that at least 480,000 people have been directly killed by violence over the course of these conflicts, more than 244,000 of them […]
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