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Most cultured meat companies still use fetal bovine serum as the growth medium, which is obtained from unborn calves that are cut out of the womb and drained of their blood while still alive.Story at a glance:• While the fake meat industry is being touted as an environmentally friendly and sustainable way to feed the world, the true intent is to recreate the kind of global control that Monsanto and others achieved through patented GMO (genetically modified organism) seed development. • Researchers at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) warn there are major environmental downsides to lab-grown meat....

College football rankings for week 14 have been released. Alabama remains the top-ranked team, while Ohio State and Washington made big jumps in the polls. The Ohio State Buckeyes, who crushed then No. 4 Michigan 62-39, moved up four spots in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll to No. 6. Michigan’s loss dropped them four spots to No. 8 in both polls. Washington, who won at in-state rival Washington State 28-15, jumped up six spots to No. 10 in the AP Poll and moved up five spots to No. 11 in the Coaches Poll. Wazzu dropped to 12th in...

FOUR PEOPLE WOUNDED IN TERRORIST ACT IN CHECHNYA Four persons from the Federal Security Service (FSB) have been wounded in a terrorist act committed in the capital of the Chechen Republic, Grozny. The terrorist act occurred Thursday at about 3:20 p.m. in the Zavodskoi district of Grozny, a source in the Chechen administration said. According to the source, an unidentified explosive device worked off at the checkpoint at the moment when a car carrying officers of the FSB directorate for Chechnya was passing on. The officers in the car received wounds of varying gravity in the explosion and were urgently...