PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat 1130
Bored MPA writes "The Times reports that PETA is to announce plans on Monday for a $1 million prize to the "first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012." PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk addressed the controversial decision by saying, "We don't mind taking uncomfortable positions if it means that fewer animals suffer." An unexpected and pragmatic move from an organization that has a strong base of support from pro-organic vegans." The question I always had about this- if they can take one sample from one animal and clone it in a vat and feed this world, will the vegans be ok with that?
Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Isnt fake meat called... (Score:5, Funny)
hmm (Score:5, Funny)
I suggest (Score:1, Funny)
Silly. (Score:5, Funny)
I can't recall the comedian, but someone once noted "Why do vegetarians need to make their food (tofu pups, veggieburgers) look like meat they simply wont eat? You don't see monks keeping blow-up dolls just hanging around."
For those who prefer car analogies (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Isnt fake meat called... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:hmm (Score:0, Funny)
Re:PETA? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What about human? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:5, Funny)
For many of your dietary bretheren giving up the opportunity to sit in coffee shop wearing pantaloons and blurt out pseudo facts about how meat eaters are killing themselves and the planet and all the animals would be too much to bear. I think they would continue to oppose in vitro meat just to preserve that pastime.
Torchwood did it (and did it, and did it..) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmm (Score:4, Funny)
Is this an acronym for "People Eating Tasty Animals" ?
Re:Cloning Tissue or Whole Animal? (Score:4, Funny)
Might be worth it.
Re:Interesting... (Score:2, Funny)
bah! that's borderline enjoying-your-food (not that i'm saying m&m`s are food). everyone knows that the 'safe' m&m`s touch the 'unsafe' ones in the packet so any '_real_' vegan will avoid m&m`s altogether.
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Re:Cloning Tissue or Whole Animal? (Score:3, Funny)
No fucking way! That's outrageous!
It would never be the same as the original.
Another use: (Score:3, Funny)
"Here is that pound of flesh you ordered..."
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:4, Funny)
"Negative, I am a meat popcicle."
HHGTG (Score:3, Funny)
Instead of artificial meat, you breed a cow that _wants_ to be eaten, and will indicate so.
Re:Interesting... (Score:3, Funny)
Bravo! (Score:2, Funny)
Why bother with artificial meat? (Score:4, Funny)
They'll fry up really nicely. And then we can start on the Chinese and the Indians. There's lots of them, so that's a herd that'll take a long time to cull out. In fact, we may never even need to eat the bony butts of east africa.
Just a modest proposal is all I'm suggesting...
RS
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:5, Funny)
With apologies to George Carlin
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:4, Funny)
You say he seems perfectly healthy; I say he's nuts and stuff.
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:5, Funny)
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On the upside, now that you know we're all gonna die, you can go back to loving the taste of a well-prepared steak (or juicy hamburger!) knowing that our immortality exists only insofar as we're all just stardust in one form or another...
-AC
Re:Isnt fake meat called... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:3, Funny)
Talk about people being simple. Another vegetarian trying to take the high ground when their kind murders trillions of the most defenseless life forms on the planet, but if you want to justify your lifestyle and continue stuffing dead plants as well as still living victims into your mouth three times a day, backed by completely natural factory farms and a host of ghouls who enjoy working in plant packing plants then just do it.
Where are you people when the florists open their doors. The poor life forms that are being murdered for that industry are not even being used for food. Ghouls (thats what we are calling people who kill, right?) then put them in their homes and watch them die.
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:1, Funny)
No matter how else you may be enjoying your life, willfully depriving yourself of the inherent joie-de-vivre of such opportunities thusly dimishes your life experience accordingly...
-AC
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:1, Funny)
Um, hate to break it to you, Sparky, but Death comes one to a customer. You should be more precise in your phrasing.
And, vegetarians don't live longer, it just FEELS longer - sorta like the time I spent married to my ex-wife *grin*.
I'm just sayin...
Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:They are unpleasant already (Score:3, Funny)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/687996.stm [bbc.co.uk]
Vegetarian diets are not natural.