[extropy-chat] wretched journalists strike again

[David Lubkin]

Damien Broderick wrote:

>Finally, an idea worth talking about in reality (as it's been talked 
>about for many decades in sf), and of course some NYT morons declare 
>that it "may turn your stomach". (They mean "might turn", but hey.) 
>Yep, so much more vomitous than killing animals, pulling off their 
>skin, scooping out their guts, then cutting up their dead muscle to eat.

Can you trace the idea back to anything earlier than Pohl & Kornbluth 
in The Space Merchants, which featured "Chicken Little" growing in a 
vat? (Serialized in Galaxy as "Gravy Planet", starting June 1952)


-- David.