{"id":9142,"date":"2023-03-06T17:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T22:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/?p=9142"},"modified":"2023-03-06T17:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T22:24:19","slug":"professor-victor-kumar-co-authors-boston-globe-article-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/2023\/03\/06\/professor-victor-kumar-co-authors-boston-globe-article-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Victor Kumar co-authors Boston Globe Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/profile\/victor-kumar\/\">Victor Kumar<\/a>, along with his co-author Josh May, had an article published in the Boston Globe entitled, <strong>&#8220;The thing that could finally get us to eat less meat is \u2014 meat.&#8221;<\/strong> The article, appearing in the Perspectives section of the Globe&#8217;s Magazine, explains how new developments in cruelty-free and alternative meat production may finally pave the way for our society to reconcile itself with the moral and environmental downsides to our current factory farming system. Writes Kumar and Campbell:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"html-render\">&#8220;<\/span>Unlike commonly available meat substitutes like Beyond Burger, cultivated meat is made of &#8230; well, meat. It has the exact same molecules and the exact same taste as the burger you know and love (or it will, once perfected). But instead of being harvested from a living, breathing animal \u2014 one that can feel pleasure and pain, cares for its young, and is likely more intelligent than your toddler \u2014 it\u2019s designed in a lab and cultured in vats. The process doesn\u2019t require killing animals or keeping them in captivity. Cells are taken from a pasture-raised animal, then grown in a nutrient-rich medium.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body | gutter_16--desktop gutter_16--tablet\n              \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">Cultivated meat, in other words, may allow us to consume what we crave without the moral costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph | gutter_20_0\"><span class=\"html-render\">As professors of moral philosophy, we celebrate these developments \u2014 and we think everyone who cares about animal welfare, the environment, or public health should, too. We believe most people grasp on some level that eating meat from factory farms \u2014 where the vast majority of it comes from \u2014 is wrong. But meat is a delicious, nutrient-dense food, central to many cherished cultural traditions. So we rationalize away or ignore our qualms.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2023\/03\/01\/magazine\/thing-that-could-finally-get-us-eat-less-meat-is-meat\/\">Click here to read the Boston Globe article.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Professor!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Victor Kumar, along with his co-author Josh May, had an article published in the Boston Globe entitled, &#8220;The thing that could finally get us to eat less meat is \u2014 meat.&#8221; The article, appearing in the Perspectives section of the Globe&#8217;s Magazine, explains how new developments in cruelty-free and alternative meat production may finally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,28,26,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9144,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9142\/revisions\/9144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/philo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}