Milk without cows, eggs without chickens

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09/03/2018 | www.wnd.com

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By Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0, Link Tucked away inconspicuously in an old bio-hacker space in Oakland, California, are the research facilities of Counter Culture Labs founded by biologist Ryan Bethencourt.

He may have the answer to the old question of which came first, the chicken or the egg.

One of his goals is to produce eggs without chickens. Another is to produce milk without cows.

It may sound crazy, but the future may be right around the corner.

Bethencourt is just one of a growing group of scientist-entrepreneurs determined to produce artificial animal-like food without the animals.

…But how does it taste?

Is it as good as the real thing?

Is it healthy?

What would God think about it? …

To that, says Isha Datar, executive director of New Harvest: “Today, milk is made by artificially inseminating a cow at 13 months of age, having it bear a calf nine months later, having the calf removed (to be made into veal), and then maintaining the cow in a lactating state for about two years. By age 4, the dairy cow is culled for beef.” Read more.

The good old days

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Ashes to ashes, dust to gold?

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@thelocalswitzer | 2 October 2018 | TheLocal.ch

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By David Monniaux - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Zurich crematorium starts to trade precious metals filtered from people's ashes

Switzerland's largest crematorium has put in place technology to filter precious metals from the 6,000 or so bodies that are cremated in its facility each year. Only one in three are opting in for the filtering process though.

Gold, silver and platinum nuggets that survive the intense 700 Celsius fires are all that remain after a body is burnt at the Nordheim cremation facility – Switzerland's largest – in Zurich. Approximately 6,000 corpses are cremated here each year.

As of earlier this month, Nordheim has put in place a machine that filters out precious metals from the ashes and the crematorium then sells them to recycling firms for profit.

There has been some debate as to whether the earnings should be returned to the deceased's beneficiaries or go into state coffers. The latter is what is happening. The recycling project is set to earn the city of Zurich 100,000 Swiss francs (€87,700) in revenue each year. Read more.

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...and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind ... the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind ...the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1

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Would you let your conscience be your guide?

Does God care if the skin and bone of the dead are passed along to the living for medical uses? Is organ donation OK with God? Should you sign a Living Will?

Did you know that dead organ donors are often anesthetized before their organs are removed? Do you know the current definition of death? The conscience cannot function without facts.

As we ponder the ethics of in vitro fertilization, stem cell research and man-made chimeras, our thoughts trail off. How then should we live? (Ez 33:10)

How should a Christian think about euthanasia by starvation when doctors and the state attorney general all agree it is time to withhold feeding from a brain injured patient? Some things are family matters, but someday it may be our family.

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