If anybody cares about my opinion, I note here that in countries founded on freedom, and where there is resistance to government control of its citizenry (such as the USA), it may be easier to engineer solutions to problems than to get a hundred million people to change their behavior. A possible solution, for which there has been great progress, is the laboratory manufacture of meat proteins, where a person can enjoy a steak that never came from any living creature—a topic explored in a highly popular episode of StarTalk that I hosted, featuring the one-and-only Temple Grandin and Paul
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