PETA is stirring up controversy within its ranks by offering $1 million for the first person who can create a decent fake meat in vitro, reports the New York Times.
According to the story: New Harvest, a nonprofit organization formed to promote the field, says on its Web site, "Because meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional animal farms, they can be safer, more nutritious, less polluting and more humane than conventional meat."
Sounds like a good idea to us. The current state of tofurkey and fake bacon is not all that impressive. But according to a PETA member, the decision created "a near civil war in our office," because so many animal-rights activists don't believe in eating animal tissue even if no animals were killed to provide it.
This reminds us of someone we knew who for Thanksgiving one year constructed a turkey out of tofu to serve to his southern in-laws. (The guests took one look at it and ordered out KFC.)
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Posted Apr 22nd 2008 10:57AM by Ada Calhoun
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1. If it's fake, then it's no animal tissue, so what the hell would the fight be about? Unless they're proposing growing muscle tissue with no sentient being attached? That actually may not be a half bad idea. It'll put thousands out of work, but what the hell. Let's become even more alien than we already are.
Strados at 11:38AM on Apr 22nd 2008
2. I already eat fake meat. It's called the Big Mac.
In the good old days, for Lent the cooks would make swans out of fish. Or was it fish out of swan meat?
Listen, PETA is not flying on all burners. If a natural disaster happened (and the planet has had a lot of them) then starving people are not going to go around looking for tofu.
The Goddess Athena at 12:32PM on Apr 22nd 2008
3. PETA already knows this meat exists. Charlton Heston warned us about this food staple years ago. In the wake of cloning and all the Baby Boomers preparing to die, it's called "Soylent Green." What will they do with all the failed clone attempts and the bodies? It's efficient, plentiful, and probably tastes just like chicken. This is just a sick story that elicits a sicker response. How sick is it? Where is my million dollars?
Cecil Jones at 12:57PM on Apr 22nd 2008
4. sOUND LIKE PETA AND THE SCIENTALOGIE HAVE MERGED
JOEL at 12:59PM on Apr 22nd 2008
5. F**k peta
steve england at 6:49PM on Apr 22nd 2008
6. I've got some real tasty meat for Ingrid Newkirk. I promise no animals will be harmed.
Where's my $million$ ?
mac at 9:40PM on Apr 22nd 2008