NEWS: PETA: Creeping Me Out More

POLITICS: PETA: Creeping Me Out More

Oh PETA, why so crazy? There is a way to fight for the rights of animals without sometimes looking like complete and total lunatics. In this latest episode of PETA creepiness, they want someone to make Frankenmeat.

Mmmm, daddy wants a big tub of meat. I’m trying to think of a type of food I’d rather eat less than meat created in a test tube and I’m at a loss. This also shows a total lack of understanding of meat eaters. Meat eaters aren’t creepy, bloodthirsty psychos; they just like meat and they don't care that animals have to die for their nourishment.

I can’t even begin to understand what PETA thinks they are going to accomplish with their in vitro meat contest. Wasting one million dollars is amazing, even for them – and it seems a bit off target. PETA's slogan is "animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment." So, I guess they think if they create some awesome fake meat in a lab, they will save animals. FAIL. Huge fail. Spectacular fail.

The decision is actually causing a PETA civil war. Soon the group may break into PFMPETA (Pro Fake Meat PETA) and AFMPETA (Against Fake Meat PETA). I guess some PETA members are not as crazy as I thought.

Let me re-phrase that. I guess some PETA members are crazier than I thought. Also, I don’t want to live in the world where one has to choose between eating roadkill or in vitro meat. Can’t I just have a banana?

If you are interested in the million dollars, you have to create laboratory chicken and sell it to the public by June 30, 2012. (Hi, arbitrary fake meat date.) The winner must also do the following:

Why would non-meat eaters care about the taste and texture of chicken? Why not make a realistic lab vagina that feels natural for gay men? Actually, that’s a good idea. I’m offering one million for lab-grown vaginas – and I want them created in bulk and sold at competitive rates to real vaginas in 17 states.

I am no fan of meat. Beef farms are the worst things on the face of the Earth for the environment. The volume of waste they produce and the amount of water consumed is astounding. The beef produced is full of hormones and toxins. But the solution is not lab meat - I actually find that less appealing than toxin filled meat. The solution is to not eat meat.

I am horrified by the idea of giant labs pumping out huge slabs of juicy, fake meat. It is a future I want no part of. I will do everything in my power to free the slave meat, if that day ever comes. Please join FIVSMOD (Free In Vitro Slave Meat Or Die) before it is too late.

Agreed, the solution is not to eat meat.

I could just see the same labs producing
fake meat and human replacement parts.

"Soylent Green is people!"


But... lab-grown... vaginas... ?
I think I won't go there.

PETA is sure getting weirder each day. I'm sure one day we'll hear about PETA Kamikazes blowing themselves up at a KFC.
Whatever, there is no way though I'll be eating in vitro meat or stop eating meat for the matter. If it comes down to a PETA victory with killing animals for anything, especially food, being outlawed I'm sure I'll become a cannibal and start by eating them first...after all I like the taste of chicken and supposedly we taste like something similar.

It's like going from 100 to 0.

At the risk of stating what I feel to be obvious here, PETA's lab meat contest seems to have been initiated under the pretense that a vast majority of meat-eating people on the planet will never willingly go without meat.

So, while I agree a more direct approach is for people to not eat animals - be it lab meat or traditionally raised animals - they're working on a more realistic scenario than getting people to not kill animals for food.

Now pass me the FrankenMuff.

Or, the solution is to eat locally grown and processed meat, such as offered by a CSA program, or from a local butcher.
The decision is not just "eat factory meat or no meat at all"- for those who choose to be omnivores but don't want to support the meat industry, track down your local supply where you can guarantee the source. They're out there.


otherwise, just eat bananas.

Makes you wonder what PETA thinks of lolcats.

Why couldn't PETA just stick to the nude ads and protests? Those got attention. Those made people think. Well, not really, but they were entertaining.

Wait . . . people are animals too . . . and they can't use animals for entertainment . . . so if I was entertained by the naked ads then PETA broke their own rules!! HYPOCRITES!

I'm not fond of store-bought meat at all. Fresh from a small family farm, where I know (and helped with) the raising practices, know the animals weren't treated cruely, and where I helped prepare the meat . . .I'm ok with that. But that has more to do with the grocery stores than with PETA, so I guess this is a tangent. And I'm ok with that

I think it's a cool idea. You get to eat meat without killing animals. It's a win-win scenario as far as I'm concerned. My only issues would be 1) it has to have the same texture and taste 2) it's healthy and natural (I don't want to die of weird cloning chemicals or put myself at unnecessary risk) 3) it's cost effective. Barring those issues I could give a shit and would eat it with pleasure, what the fuck is the difference except the reduction of suffering? Anyway, I don't get the big deal.

I also don't understand why it's such a big deal for PETAENS. No animals suffer, thus it's animal friendly. If you don't want to eat flesh then don't; would you rather have people continue to eat animals or eat lab produced meat? Those who choose the former my friends, are fucking retarded. You can't have your cake and eat it too.

Ya know, if they filled the lab vats with a nice marinade to grow the franken-meat in, I might give it a shot.

They need to make up their minds.

-TM

This is just weird. I already eat textured soy protein in the shape of hamburgers, sausages and chicken patties. The hamburgers don't taste much like meat, but the chicken and sausages are actually pretty close.

It would make more sense, both ethically and environmentally, to come up with ways to make plant-based foods that have a texture and taste that is closer to meat. The food would be healthier and have less environmental impact.

Besides, who but Cargill and ADM would have the resources to "grow" in vitro meat, anyway? Why perpetuate an unworkable agribusiness model? Why not just support free-range chicken, grass-fed beef, and sustainable pork?

In vitro meat just sounds like another version of a CAFO. Bad, bad PETA! No tofu for you!

but the had an ad campaign with our nekkid chicks?
how could they be bad?

srsly, though, that's grosser than hufo (tofu that tastes like humans)

Test tube grown meat sounds like a decent idea to me. *shrug*.

Proven safe and on sale for competitive prices by 2012, though? Not going to happen. And nice work on picking the mayan end-of-days as your deadline, PETA.

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I was a vegetarian for many years before I gave in and started eating chicken and fish again (it's still rare when I eat red meat, pardon the pun) and I never once thought to myself, "Hey, why don't we come up with meat that's sorta real, but still pretty fake!" My average thought was always, "Hm, do I want tofu or vegetarian fake meats, like Boca or Morningstar Farms." The idea of someone playing around in a tube and then trying to make me eat what's in it just seems wrong. Who knows what it might take to make all this in vitro meat they want. There could end up being more toxins and hormones in it than in red meat. Mmm... Yeah, let's poison our bodies slowly with fake meat... YUM!

next thing you know lesbians will be using plastic penises on each other.

No, I think I still want to eat real meat. Sorry, the same reason I try not to buy GMO carrots and corn is the same reason I don't want to eat GMO Beef, let alone fake-clone-??? meat.

As such, I will continue to try to find organic fruits, vegetables, and meat for my diet. Yes, I will continue to eat meat, real meat, good delicious meat.

oh PETA, why you gotta be so silly?

the real solution is to eat within sustainable means. if we can find a way to produce meat in such a manner (likesay, small farms selling smaller quantities for higher prices) then great.

personally, i think lab-grown meat has a huge market: replace factory farmed meat with it entirely. will the dumb motherfuckers who eat at mcdonalds care that their hideous, shitty burger was grown in a lab instead of a cow factory? likely not.

in the future, there will be Long Pig Fast Food joints, Spider Jerusalem approved.

dogs and cats, living together! total anarchy!

what's the point of the million dollar prize? anyone crazy enough to try to make this fake meat is probably going to spend a lot more than that on their research, labs, etc. the money they could possibly win would just be used to cover their debts. totally pointless. i can't imagine any meat eaters willing to eat that crap on a daily basis. money well wasted.

here;s an idea: use that money to medicate the individuals responsible for this idea. they really don't understand how absurd it is.

i am not a meat eater. i would never eat some factory made crap just because no animals were harmed.

I'm for it as long as they put in loads of growth hormones, antibiotics, and MSG's.

Most people will eat anything as long as it's cheap and tasty.

twinkies.

Am I the only one here that would feel just fine eating meat grown in a lab? It would probably be more sustainable than a lot of current farming practices. And just to be clear, this isn't "fake" meat. It's actual muscle tissue grown in a lab the same way they grow skin grafts for burn victims. It would taste exactly like meat because it is meat, except without the blood vessels. It wouldn't necessarily make a good steak, but if we used it in our burgers, hot dogs, and several other types of ground meat, it would be a huge help for the environment, and your taste buds wouldn't know the difference.