NEPAL, November 7, 2018 (Pretty 52): Nepal celebrated our fluffy four-legged friends in its Kukur Tihar–Day of the Dogs–on Tuesday, and it looked incredible. The five-day Nepalese Hindu festival of Tihar kicked off earlier this week, and the second day is dedicated entirely to dogs. Pooches are given flower garlands and are blessed with a Tika, which is a red or white mark applied to their forehead. Both stray dogs and pets are doted on and offered delicious food as part of the five day-long festival.
Social media is littered with pictures of pets and stray dogs being honored in the festival, wearing flower garlands and tika, enjoying banquets of food. Other animals are also honored in the festival including crows and ravens, which have sweet foods and delicacies left out for them. Cows are given garlands and tika on the morning of day three, and are allowed to graze on the best grass, and oxen are honored in the same way on day four. Tihar is also known as Deepavali or the festival of lights, and it either comes in November or October, depending on the year.
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UNITED STATES, November 7, 2018 (Bloomberg): Lab-grown. Cell-based. Clean. In vitro. Cultured. Fake. Artificial. Synthetic. Meat 2.0. These are all terms that refer to the same kind of food, one that’s not even on the market yet. But the companies making it have already raised hundreds of millions of dollars worth of investor cash and earned the close attention of U.S. regulators. Rather than methodically slaughtering animals, this industry uses science to grow what it claims is essentially the same thing as traditional meat. Given the planetary damage wrought by mass-market animal husbandry, such cellular agriculture is seen as the future of meat.
But what to name it, and getting people to eat it, is another matter altogether. Crucial to public acceptance of any consumer product, of course, is branding. But no one can agree what to call this stuff. Originally, there was a push for the label ”clean meat.” This was seen as a better alternative to the more clinical ”lab-grown meat,” said Bruce Friedrich, co-founder and executive director of the Good Food Institute, which lobbies for these new products. But then the traditional meat industry weighed in, saying the cellular version shouldn’t be called meat at all. ”We’re using the term ’lab-produced cultured protein,'” said Dan Kovich, deputy director of science and technology at the National Pork Producers Council. Other groups representing meat producers, including the North American Meat Institute, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and the National Chicken Council, also objected to the ”clean meat” label.
Much more on this issue at ”source” above.
We are all bubbles in the ocean. The bubble is in the ocean; the ocean is in the bubble.
— Satguru Siva Yogaswami, (1872-1964) Sri Lankan mystic
