[id: multiple photos of a sleeping silver labrador curled up against the moon. The dog is dlightly on its side, her head nestled into a waw, the other stretched out in front. Her back legs are somewhat tucked together, one paw slightly resting atop the other. Beneath the dog is a galaxy of blue and purple, with stars dotting along at the brightest spots. End id]
Wanted to paint on my sketchbook so i painted a picture i have of my dog :3
my other half returned home from war* last night and this skank ho, who I bottle fed for a week and let out every two hours around the clock and bathed and let sleep on the people bed for a month now, has not even looked at me since. smh.
A commissioned memorial portrait of their silver Labrador Retriever named Dozer who sadly passed away to cancer last year. Polychromos and Luminance colored pencils used on 11″X14″ Strathmore paper.
Lab-grown or “cultivated” meat is made by growing animal stem cells around a scaffold in a nutrient-rich broth. It has been proposed as a kinder and greener alternative to traditional meat because it uses less land, feed, water and antibiotics than animal farming and removes the need to farm and slaughter livestock, which are a major source of greenhouse gases.
However, Derrick Risner at the University of California, Davis, and his colleagues found that the global warming potential of cultivated meat, defined as the carbon dioxide equivalents emitted for each kilogram of meat produced, is 4 to 25 times higher than for regular beef.
The researchers conducted a life-cycle assessment of cultivated meat that estimated the energy used in each step in current production methods. They predict that this will be similar regardless of which animal’s cells are being cultivated.
They found that the nutrient broth used to culture the animal cells has a large carbon footprint because it contains components like sugars, growth factors, salts, amino acids and vitamins that each come with energy costs.
For example, energy is required to grow crops for sugars and to run laboratories that extract growth factors from cells. Each component must also be carefully purified using energy-intensive techniques like ultrafiltration and chromatography before they can be mixed into the broth.
More skrunkles for @tsaikonautz ‘s lab rat AU. Silver (Cyan Powers), Blaze (Purple cat w fire), and Amy (Pink Hedgie!) are my designs, while Miles “Tails” (Fox w two tails), Sonic (Blue Hedgie), and Knuckles (Red angry one) belong to Tsaikonautz!