{"id":31844,"date":"2012-12-19T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/the-end-of-factory-farming.html"},"modified":"2012-12-19T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T15:29:08","slug":"the-end-of-factory-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/the-end-of-factory-farming.html","title":{"rendered":"The end of factory farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Per the article, the modern factory farm is unsustainable faced with more expensive energy and less available water. Though most of the predictions of what comes next sounds a lot like what came before, they also sound plausible for all that.<\/p>\n<p>And &#8230; that&#39;s probably okay. I mean, nobody likes beef, pork, lamb, and poultry more than I do, but I could probably afford to eat (quite a bit) less of it, treat it as something a bit more special. \u00a0Humanity seemed to get by that way for most of its existence, and so can I.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images3-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/img.gawkerassets.com\/img\/188ai6v8pngc6jpg\/fb.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/io9.com\/5968370\/what-comes-after-the-end-of-factory-farming'>What comes after the end of factory farming?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFactory farming only really began 40 years ago, and it seems unlikely to continue for another 40 years in its current configuration. Even leaving aside the massive, huge ethical problems with abusing &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/CLrsjackgWu' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Per the article, the modern factory farm is unsustainable faced with more expensive energy and less available water. Though most of the predictions of what comes next sounds a lot like what came before, they also sound plausible for all that. And &#8230; that&#39;s probably okay. I mean, nobody likes beef, pork, lamb, and poultry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/19\/the-end-of-factory-farming.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The end of factory farming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133978,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/so-about-that-big-apple-er-foxconn-factory-thing-trumps-so-proud-of.html","url_meta":{"origin":31844,"position":0},"title":"So, about that big Apple, er, Foxconn factory thing Trump&#039;s so proud of","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jul-17 7:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump is all super-duper happy that Apple Foxconn is going to be building a huge new factory in Wisconsin.Which sounds really great. 13,000 jobs? 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