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The Politics of Cultivated Meat Research
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently inveighed against the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act during an appearance at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The New York congresswoman was invited to speak at Martin Luther King Jr.’s former congregation on May 10, at the invitation of Senator Raphael Warnock, the current senior pastor there. Many political observers interpreted this as the unofficial launch of an Ocasio-Cortez presidential campaign.
“This, to me, is someone who is at least thinking seriously about running for president,” New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie said in a YouTube short. “Not just the language she’s using. Not just leaning into God talk, leaning into religiousity. This is a religious country. It’s a necessary part of running for higher office. But the fact that she’s doing this at a black church in Georgia, knowing full well that key to winning any kind of nomination is at least doing well, doing okay, with black primary voters.”
Animal activists, like myself, who are interested reducing nonhuman suffering and premature death........