I haven’t eaten meat in more than 20 years, and I have no desire to try laboratory-grown beef, but I hope it’s a huge success (“Lab Burger a Hard Cell,” Aug. 6).
Compared to our current method of meat production, which involves immense animal suffering and death, disease and environmental destruction, it’s a practical panacea.
But until lab-grown meat is more widely available, people can enjoy tasty mock meats, including Beyond Meat, Tofurky and Gardein products.
They taste remarkably like meat, but come without the cruelty, cholesterol, saturated fat and environmental problems associated with animal flesh.
Elaine Sloan, Manhattan
Needless abuse
The Post’s editorial blamed me for the NYPD’s agreement this week to remove names and other personal information of innocent New Yorkers from a database it created (“A Dumb Data Dump,” Editorial, Aug. 9).
Thank you. As a former police officer with 20 years of service, I could not be prouder to have authored the law preventing the city from storing the information of New Yorkers who were stopped and frisked, but not charged. There is absolutely no reason for the practice.
There is also no reason for the abuse of stop-and-frisk, and the data makes that clear.
The NYPD has significantly cut back on stops over the last year, yet murder rates are as low as ever.
We don’t need to give up our civil rights to fight crime. That’s a false choice, and New Yorkers won’t be fooled.
Eric Adams, NY state Senator, Brooklyn
Bam vs. Carter
The Post said: “You’d have to go back to Jimmy Carter to find an American president less feared by our enemies” (“President Kick-Me,” Editorial, Aug. 8).
Are you kidding me? Compared to President Obama, Jimmy Carter comes across as Teddy Roosevelt on steroids.
J. McGinley, Farmingdale, NJ
Wage war
Michael Saltsman of the Employment Policies Institute plays fast and loose with the facts regarding the research on the impact, or lack thereof, that minimum-wage increases have on employment (“Minimum Honesty on Minimum Wage,” PostOpinion, Aug. 6).
Saltsman’s argument — that a modest one-dollar increase in New Jersey’s meager minimum wage will lead to job loss — is built on a shaky foundation that falls apart when confronted with the facts.
He claims that a 1994 study by Princeton economists David Card and Alan Krueger was “completely discredited.”
In fact, in response to Saltsman’s organization’s critique, Card and Krueger acknowledged their methodological shortcomings, used new data sets and found the same result: “little to no effect” of the minimum-wage increase on fast-food employment.
He then claims that the “vast majority of economic research” finds a correlation between minimum-wage increases and job losses.
In fact, the majority of research finds “little to no employment response,” as a recent overview study by the Center for Economic and Policy Research notes.
Saltsman ends his piece by decrying “advocates’ cynical use” of research in minimum-wage battles.
Perhaps he ought to look in the mirror a little more often.
Jon Whiten, deputy director, New Jersey Policy Perspective, Trenton