No stranger to controversy and publicity stunts, PETA is back - and this time, the animal rights group is putting money where its mouth is: PETA is offering a $1 million reward to the first scientist to produce and bring to market lab-grown meat.
Scientists around the world are researching or seeking the funds to research ways to produce meat in the laboratory—without killing any animals. In vitro meat production would use animal stem cells that would be placed in a medium to grow and reproduce. The result would mimic flesh and could be cooked and eaten. Some promising steps have been made toward this technology, but we're still several years away from having in vitro meat be available to the general public.
PETA is now stepping in and offering a $1 million reward to the first scientist to produce and bring to market in vitro meat.
Would you eat lab-grown meat? Link
I'll definitely eat lab-grown meat if it tastes and feels exactly like meat, and I know exactly where it came from and what's in it. That's not to say it'll ever replace real animals in my lifetime, because we all know animals are delicious!
1 million is a bit on the cheap side though. With as much money as the organization makes, they could offer more.
1 mill, while a good bit, still isn't all that much nowadays.
And in this case, I think it is a very practical and elegant solution to what they see as a problem. It has the potential to eliminate the need for livestock (reducing harmful environmental effects and cost) and if it can be achieved technologically, is a perfect replacement.
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America was built on BEEF & OIL - the exact things PETA, and the bunch of ignorant wannabe Hipsters in the current Administration seem to loath.
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You can have your fake meat, and all of the disgusting side-effects I'm sure it will entail - just leave the rest of us the fvck alone to also live as we choose.
Look - If we are not supposed to eat meat, why are cows made out of steak?
Bring on the topless girls!!!!
You know, these wankers don't like you to kill or even catch fish. So I expect that our slimy little friends will get the same treatment as Bessie. I shutter imagining chewing up that first run of synthetic salmon. Holy Monkey....
America was built on BEEF & OIL - the exact things PETA, and the bunch of ignorant wannabe Hipsters in the current Administration seem to loath.
America was also built on slavery, but you see where THAT got us. As for the beef and oil, well.. we have this current war and high obesity rates so I think, as country, we're doing great!
PETA made $300,000,000 last year in donations... step it up, PETA. Put your money where your mouth is.
Questions - If you grew a steak from your own stem cells and consumed it, would you still be a vegan? Would you be a cannibal if it was grown from your own cell-line?
If I can't wrap it in lab grown bacon and deep fry it without it losing it's shape. then I don't want it.
And I used to belong to PETA and donate money to them, but I got disgusted after one too many publicity stunts. That, and the fact that they openly advocate euthanizing animals rather than keeping them as domestic pets.
I think Dwight Schrute figured out how to harvest meat from a horse without killing it.
Just trying to be helpful.