April 21st 2008
PETA Offers $1 Million to Scientists Who Bring Lab-Meat to Market
Ingrid Newkirk, the president and a co-founder of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is a big fan of lab-grown meat. She is such a big of a fan of it that she has convinced her organization to pledge one million dollars to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”
From the New York Times:
The idea of getting the next Chicken McNugget out of a test tube is not new. For several years, scientists have worked to develop technologies to grow tissue cultures that could be consumed like meat without the expense of land or feed and the disease potential of real meat. An international symposium on the topic was held this month in Norway. The tissue, once grown, could be shaped and given texture with the kinds of additives and structural agents that are now used to give products like soy burgers a more meaty texture.
Definitely read the whole New York Times article.
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Crystal on 22 Apr 2008 at 9:29 am #
Although this is better than factory farms and touture, I think a meat eater would be quick to think if they want to eat meat from a
test tube, that idea also repulses me. I think we have enough genetically altered food out there, that meat from a tube just seems natural
Why can’t we just stop being so damn greedy. Lets replenish the earth for growing and not to supply for biofuels that use more
natural resources to produce than what they save in the end. Now if only we could do something about the worlds shortage of RICE