Darwinists offer $1M prize for Test Tube Meat

SUBMAN1 · 04-22-08, 10:03 AM

Just the idea sounds disgusting! :p

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PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat

By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: April 21, 2008

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay a million dollars for fake meat — even if it has caused a “near civil war” within the organization.

The organization said it would 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.” ...

Read on here - http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/21/us...3femioGEjaUjYw

STEED · 04-22-08, 10:05 AM

Fake Meat

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Spoon 11th · 04-22-08, 10:17 AM

In vitro meat will be one of the biggest things of this century that will change our lives. I'm anxiously waiting for it.

CCIP · 04-22-08, 10:08 AM

Ewwwww

I'm all for ethical treatment of animals, but I'm sort of for ethical treatment of humans too. Including eating more or less naturally.

I don't even eat much meat (sometimes I go for weeks without eating any, actually), but I think it's absurd to deny the nature of a sizeable part of humanity as omnivores in the truest sense. :hmm:

SUBMAN1 · 04-22-08, 10:15 AM

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STEED · 04-22-08, 10:20 AM

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Spoon 11th · 04-22-08, 10:21 AM

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In vitro human flesh? I'd eat that, more preferably even than in vitro animal meat. It's just nutrients.

Letum · 04-22-08, 10:30 AM

What on earth does this have to do with Darwin?!
He wasn't a vegetarian!

Ethical treatment of animals does not exclude eating them.

joegrundman · 04-22-08, 10:31 AM

What's Peta got to do with darwinism?

EDIT: cross post (i think, or maybe i just didn't scroll down far enough)

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Ewwwww I'm all for ethical treatment of animals, but I'm sort of for ethical treatment of humans too. Including eating more or less naturally. I don't even eat much meat (sometimes I go for weeks without eating any, actually), but I think it's absurd to deny the nature of a sizeable part of humanity as omnivores in the truest sense. :hmm: __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

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Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	What on earth does this have to do with Darwin?! He wasn't a vegetarian! Ethical treatment of animals does not exclude eating them. __________________

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Spoon 11th Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Finland Posts: 689 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	In vitro meat will be one of the biggest things of this century that will change our lives. I'm anxiously waiting for it.