Hackathon Aimed to Promote Meat Production

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In a comic twist, Stanford University recently served as the venue for a hackathon intended to promote meat production. According to a story in siliconvalley.com, around 200 presumably carnivorous code writers and hackers gathered to cook up new ways to drive the sustainable production of red and white animal flesh.

The idea, asserted an event organizer, was to level the playing field between big meat's players and their small meat counterparts.

I hope the ambitious app developers ate before the event. There was no mention in the story whether participants were fed, although some were paid something more than peanuts for the rights to their creations.