Jack's Daily Update

Daily Update #2 - "Is lab-grown meat the next frontier in ethical eating?" With the fight against climate change slowly becoming a rising issue, more and more people are looking to do their part in cutting down their carbon footprint. CBC News takes a look into the new frontier of lab grown meat, and if the product is able to be more sustainable and efficient than regular grown meat. Stephanie Hogan is able to successfully craft her argument by presenting multiple sources that show how the growth of meat in labs can lead to less CO2 and methane production across the cattle industry. Referred to as “clean” or “cultured” meat, Hogan believes in “the potential [of clean meat] to be better for both the environment and your health,”  (CBC). To dig more into the topic, Stephanie interviewed Amy Rowat, an associate professor and cultured meat scientist, who put the lab growing process into simpler terms. Rowat described the procedure where “stem cells are taken from an anim...

As the intentions and politics behind the recent fires surging across the Amazon rain forest continue to come to the surface, a report by The Washington Post examines the motives behind why Brazilian settlers are actively burning it down, and the difficulty of preventing it further. In the article, Marina Lopes dives into the evidence for why the fires continue to burn, and boils her main points down to the,“long-standing traditions, practices, [and] laws” of Brazil.  Lopes points out that Bolsonaro “has issued 29.4 percent fewer fines for violations, including illegal burning and deforestation...and through July, deforestation was up 40 percent.” She uses this evidence to support her position that a part of the reason behind the wildfires is due to the political party in power currently, which has allowed Brazilians to once again burn land in a time of deregulation. The culprit behind the fires is still up in the air, as Marina first points out using a quote from Marcos da...