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PETA: Creeping Me Out More

TUESDAY APRIL 22 2008 6:00 AM

Submitted by FearTheReaper. Edited By erin_broadley.

TAGS: PETA, In Vitro Meat

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.


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.”


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.


But, Ms. Newkirk said, the decision to sponsor a prize caused “a near civil war in our office,” since so many PETA members are repulsed by the thought of eating animal tissue, even if no animals are killed.

Lisa Lange, a vice president of the organization, said she was part of the heated exchange. “My main concern is, as the largest animal rights organization in the world, it’s our job to introduce the philosophy and hammer it home that animals are not ours to eat.” Ms. Lange added, “I remember saying I would be much more comfortable promoting eating roadkill.”


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:


• Produce an in vitro chicken-meat product that has a taste and texture indistinguishable from real chicken flesh to non-meat-eaters and meat-eaters alike.
• Manufacture the approved product in large enough quantities to be sold commercially, and successfully sell it at a competitive price in at least 10 states.


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.

 

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Rusty_metal_ass

Rusty_metal_ass

I'm lost
October 2006

MAY 17, 2008 11:04 AM

Lemme know when you guys get the factory and clean rooms up to make the electronics. I wanna build my own super computer.

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MisterLinguist

MisterLinguist

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

MAY 17, 2008 11:05 AM

Shiny_Metal_Ass said:
Lemme know when you guys get the factory and clean rooms up to make the electronics. I wanna build my own super computer.

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robot


No sex toys for you!!!

GS2099

GS2099

Fayetteville, AR
September 2005

MAY 18, 2008 08:35 AM

Miami Herald June 17, 2049:

While cowering in their Dade County IGLOO today, the last members of PETA and ELF were eaten by polar bears...

gingerbread

gingerbread

Portland, OR
January 2008

MAY 23, 2008 12:58 PM

i think it's a great idea! the runner up behind meat producers for farming that is most destructive to the planet is soy. current fake meat options are great, but they aren't sustainable. additionally, couldn't this be used to help feed all those starving people in wherever the fuck places? something. more food is generally a good thing.

ckdexterhaven

ckdexterhaven

Redding, CA
December 2005

MAY 23, 2008 01:09 PM

Narghile said:
I did what BlueRabbit is talking about on Walpurgisnacht, 2007. I and a couple of my heathen brethren donned our hunting clothes and went hunting for wild boar in south Alabama and south Mississippi. In order to be true to the old ways of our ancestors (the old Norse), we only used hammers, bow-and-arrow, and knives/swords to hunt with. No guns, crossbows, or tranquiliser darts...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)


We must've been blessed, for we downed 3 male boar and 2 female boar. We had to toss one of them out, because it had an infection already, but I bet the ants and mushrooms had a good meal on our behalf.

The first boar was easy. Out in the open, an arrow in it's gut. I think it ruptured it's liver, but that didn't stop it from running for a good mile and a half. Took a few more arrows in its back to down the fucker. We drank a toast in its memory.

The second boar was the first female. It had a nice pair of small sturdy tusks. We (four of us) cornered her near a tree. We had run out of arrows, and there was only a small amount of sunlight left, so we couldn't run back to the truck and abandon the Wild Hunt. She lunged at Jolfr (Bear) many times, and he has an eye scar to prove it. It took a few swings with my hammer, but eventually I klonked her between the eyes and she fell like a rock. We used every last bit of her and wasted nothing.

The other three were regular sniping with bow and arrow. The swords we carried were mainly for ritual purposes. We skin the animal and pour a libation of mead or whiskey over the bones, hallowing them to our gods and goddesses. The boar is seen to us heathens as a symbol of raw zest for life - unending energy and devotion to one's kith and kin.

The Norse gods Freyr and Freyja both had boars. Freyr's boar was named Gullinbursti ("Golden Mane"), who was manufactured by the Sons of Ivaldi as a gift to Freyr. The bristles in Gullinbursti's mane glowed in the dark to illuminate the way for his owner. Freya rode the boar Hildesvini (Battle Swine) when she was not using her cat-drawn chariot. According to the poem Hyndluljóð, Freyja concealed the identity of her protégé Óttar by turning him into a boar. In Norse mythology, the boar was generally associated with fertility as well as a protective talisman in war, due to the animal's sometimes fierce nature.

And Boar bacon tastes AWESOME!


I think this was all just a hallucination. In reality, you and your friends smoked some ganj, and spent the day at the renaissance festival. Huzzah!

LSlice

LSlice

Montclair, NJ
December 2007

MAY 23, 2008 02:22 PM

BlueRabbit said:
I did not ask anyone to hunt without tools. I gave them knives, which is much more than the dull teeth and ineffective nails that humans have. In fact, I just emphasized my frustration with what is, in my opinion, a poor argument for eating meat. I didn't even say that people should hunt all of their food with their bare hands. I just said that meat eaters should just once, try hunting an animal without a gun. It takes skill and respect for one's prey, something that, in my experience, 90% of people who eat meat don't have.

I have grown my own food. I live in an apartment now, and I can grow herbs in my window, but not much else. I honestly miss going out to my garden and making a meal out of what I gathered. Those were the BEST salads, and someday I hope to have the resources to have a garden again. In the meantime, I buy as much as I can from the local farmer's market.

Motorfirebox got it. I am not saying we should undo years of evolution. I am saying that there is nothing about most food we eat that justifies calling it natural. My objection is not with eating meat. Someday, if it becomes a part of sustainable agriculture, I might even eat it again. I just have problems with people insisting that eating meat is necessary, and refusing to acknowledge that conventional meat production methods are harmful on the grounds that "humans are teh smartest."




Human innovation is part of nature. This is not a defense of the meat industry. Just pointing out this false dichotmoy about natural versus unnatural. Unnatural would be, say, using black sorcery to kill animals.

LSlice

LSlice

Montclair, NJ
December 2007

MAY 23, 2008 02:24 PM

gingerbread said:
i think it's a great idea! the runner up behind meat producers for farming that is most destructive to the planet is soy. current fake meat options are great, but they aren't sustainable. additionally, couldn't this be used to help feed all those starving people in wherever the fuck places? something. more food is generally a good thing.



Not to mention soy wreaks havoc with your pineal gland in the quantities vegans tend to eat it. I'm all for veganism, but the only realistic way to accomplish such a goal is through exactly the kind of technoogical innovation this article describes. Vegan+Luddite=Fail, as the kids would say.

armyandy45

armyandy45

Killeen, TX
May 2008

MAY 25, 2008 12:10 AM

I dont even like eating like the morning star farms fake meat it just still grosses me out. I gave up chicken I'm not going to eat Chick'N and I'm totally not going to eat in vitro chickennull puke

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