My friend sent me this link to LikeMeat yesterday. So, folks, it's really happening. People are making meat in the lab and giving it a cute name and, soon, you will probably buy some. I know I will.

I mean, I'll have to, won't I? I will have to try it.

This email came a week after receiving 3 other Neermeat news stories: a friend sent me this FoxNews clip, and my mom sent me a similar article in Financial Times and another friend mailed me a cute card with a clipping from The Economist.

When I do book talks, I take along with me a copy of a New Yorker from September that also talks about lab grown burgers.

I used to bring this along with me because I found that, at book clubs and libraries, I attracted a mixed crowd. There were those who read The Blind Pig and said, "this is already happening. I know all of this already…because it's real." And then there were those who said, "um, this is kind of weird. Where did you come up with this stuff?"

Not everyone is up on modern science. I don't even claim to be, and I follow it for a living. That's why I wrote The Blind Pig. Because it's fun to take what's real and speculate about it. And it's even more fun when you know that what's real is something that's happening that only a few people know about.

Boston happens to be one of those places where there are lots of thinkers and tinkers who are making the technologies of our near-future. This is also happening in other places, but still, these people are like an intellectual 1%. They'll come up with a disproportionate percentage of the products we rely on in the future. And we in the 99% will buy them because eventually, we won't have a choice.

So, anyway, I bring the New Yorker article (and a few others) to show people that the ideas in The Blind Pig are real.

I keep seeing these trends that make me think of Neermeat or The NArc. From now on, when I do, I'll to post them here so we can all watch as the science of The Blind Pig comes out. I hope it will be more fun than scary!