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  • The Sacred Cow and Lab-Grown Meat

    The Sacred Cow and Lab-Grown Meat

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    Hervé Le Bevillon
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    A few years ago, the first news of lab-grown meat provoked reactions ranging from technological enthusiasm to visceral repulsion, passing through philosophical perplexity. Muscle stem cells were taken from a cow, made to proliferate in a bioreactor, and meat was obtained without killing the animal, without methane emissions, without antibiotics, without the industrial farming conditions…

  • Les Animaux Domestiques dans les Hymnes

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    Hervé Le Bevillon
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    Il y a dans le Rig Veda une présence animale si constante et si chargée de sens qu’elle finit par former une sorte de toile de fond vivante sur laquelle tous les hymnes se détachent. Les animaux ne sont pas des comparses, des accessoires du décor pastoral qui rendraient le texte plus pittoresque. Ils sont…

  • Animals in the Hymns

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    Hervé Le Bevillon
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    There is in the Rig Veda an animal presence so constant and so charged with meaning that it ends up forming a kind of living backdrop against which all the hymns stand out. Animals are not supporting characters, accessories of a pastoral setting that would make the text more picturesque. They are participants in the…