Shame on Mother Jones' antienvironmentalism

In a puff piece touting lab meat, it can bemoan the environmental costs of eating meat yet not say a word about the potential environmental costs of eating lab meat. (Nor does it even mention that most lab meat research etc here in Merika is in the hands of Big Ag companies like Tyson.) This is a mammoth fail, pun intended on the original story.

In the past, I've written about lab meat's issues in these pages, starting with the likely humonguous electric bill to produce it commercially at a "scalable" level. Indeed, as I wrote 18 months ago, it's probably not scalable PERIOD. Not in 2030, not even in 2050, not never.

That said, MoJo plays around too much with Gang Green enviros, the type who, per Euclid's alleged bon mot, hope for a royal road to climate change when it doesn't exist. (These folks also ignore that veggie meat itself takes a fair amount of energy to make, is still nowhere near the cost of meat, and is also often less healthy than meat meat.)

I used to believe the hype, but that was years ago.