{"id":81,"date":"2005-09-02T12:16:22","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T16:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/wp\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-09-02T12:16:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T16:16:22","slug":"soylent_green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/09\/soylent_green\/","title":{"rendered":"Soylent Green&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Reality may be stranger than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/sfw\/issue55\/classic.html\">fiction.<\/a><br \/>\nSo, you are telling me that if A: beef eats humans; B: We eat beef;  therefore, as simple set math show: C. Human eats human&#8230; Nice&#8230; I think I&#8217;m turning vegetarian&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Theory links mad cow disease to funeral rites. 02\/09\/2005. ABC News Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/newsitems\/200509\/s1452060.htm\">Theory links mad cow disease to funeral rites. 02\/09\/2005. ABC News Online<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTheory links mad cow disease to funeral rites<br \/>\nDead bodies washed ashore in India may have contaminated animal feed that was exported to the United Kingdom, triggering mad cow disease, scientists say.<br \/>\nThe human remains would have floated downriver as part of Indian funeral ceremonies, the scientists write in The Lancet journal.<br \/>\nThe cause of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which infected an estimated 2 million cattle during an epidemic, in the UK is unknown.<br \/>\nIt is thought to have resulted from cattle being fed material containing remains of sheep infected with the disease scrapie.<br \/>\nBut Professor Alan Colchester of the University of Kent says it may have been caused by the tonnes of animal bones and other tissue imported from India for animal feed.<br \/>\nHe says the feed would have also contained the remains of humans infected with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Reality may be stranger than fiction. So, you are telling me that if A: beef eats humans; B: We eat beef; therefore, as simple set math show: C. Human eats human&#8230; Nice&#8230; I think I&#8217;m turning vegetarian&#8230; Theory links &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/2005\/09\/soylent_green\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sorocabana.net\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}