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Shots – Health News : NPR

U.S clears sale of cultivated ‘no kill’ meat, grown from animal cells : Shots – Health News : NPR

For all of human history, eating meat has meant slaughtering animals. But scientists behind cultivated meat say that's no longer necessary. They produce meat by growing cells extracted from an animal's body. And, today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture gave its first clearances to sell meat produced this way.

GOOD Meat, a division of Eat Just, Inc., announced that it has received approval from the USDA for its first poultry product, cultivated chicken, grown directly from animal cells, to be sold in the U.S.

Nova Bus to phase out U.S. manufacturing, refocus on Canada – UPI.com

Nova Bus to phase out U.S. manufacturing, refocus on Canada – UPI.com

Niskayuna residents be like, is it 2002 again? There is probably a reason why most of the smaller transit authorities are all Gillig shops these days, with some New Flyer buses. 

For those unfamiliar with NOVA Bus, basically their company model is similar to Volkswagen in 1960s. 

They bought out the mid-1970s GM Truck's RTS bus design, and cranked them out until 2003. By then fewer and fewer transit authorities wanted the old RTS designed-buses. Ultimately Niskayuna and Roswell factories closed due to lack of demand.

Then when American with Disabilities Act came around, and low-floor buses were popular, they bought out the Den Oudsten B90 bus design from the Netherlands in 1996, and cranked basically the same design out as the NOVA LFS for the next 25 years.

While they made small design improvements, and transit authorities appreciated how their parts were interchangeable with buses designed decades earlier, the world moved on, and ultimately most transit authorities did too.