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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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J24U

J24U

Danvers, MA
February 2006

APR 22, 2008 03:53 PM

ckdexterhaven said:

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


Rugby teams love it.



Fixed. All the rugby players I know are quite proud of the "Alive" story. Two even have the "Rugby players eat their dead" bumper stickers.

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

APR 22, 2008 03:54 PM

LeBoucanier said:
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. wink



+1

sillyokio

sillyokio

Egypt
January 2005

APR 22, 2008 04:01 PM

No, sorry.
This gal loves her meat.
There's no way I would willingly eat that lab grown stuff.

SockPuppet

SockPuppet

I'm lost
July 2006

APR 22, 2008 04:04 PM

silversoul7 said:
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.



Exactly.

Shiny_metal_ass

Shiny_metal_ass

I'm lost
October 2006

APR 22, 2008 04:28 PM

I'd hit it!

lefthandright

lefthandright

New Zealand
September 2006

APR 22, 2008 05:04 PM

I say develop a lab grown meat pie already in the pastry..lets just cut bakers out of the picture, they are just another step between us the pie..

motorfirebox

motorfirebox

Pittsburgh, PA
March 2004

APR 22, 2008 05:10 PM

i really don't care about the animal-saving aspects of tubmeat. what i'm interested in is the possibilities for cheap mass-production, to help alleviate world hunger.

of course, if the UN won't allow gengineered wheat to be given away free to starving people, i'm sure they'll nix tubmeat as well. assholes.

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

APR 22, 2008 05:12 PM

motorfirebox said:
i really don't care about the animal-saving aspects of tubmeat. what i'm interested in is the possibilities for cheap mass-production, to help alleviate world hunger.

of course, if the UN won't allow gengineered wheat to be given away free to starving people, i'm sure they'll nix tubmeat as well. assholes.



I don't think it would really would help alleviate world hunger. As it is now, with conventional food production methods, we could produce enough food to end world hunger. We don't though, in order to keep food prices high.

silversoul7

silversoul7

Portland, OR
January 2008

APR 22, 2008 05:15 PM

RudieCantFail said:

motorfirebox said:
i really don't care about the animal-saving aspects of tubmeat. what i'm interested in is the possibilities for cheap mass-production, to help alleviate world hunger.

of course, if the UN won't allow gengineered wheat to be given away free to starving people, i'm sure they'll nix tubmeat as well. assholes.



I don't think it would really would help alleviate world hunger. As it is now, with conventional food production methods, we could produce enough food to end world hunger. We don't though, in order to keep food prices high.


It's not even that there isn't enough food. It's just that people don't have money to buy food. Our attempts to send food aid to third world countries have generally backfired by putting small farmers out of business.

SergeantPsycho

SergeantPsycho

Hampton, VA
January 2007

APR 22, 2008 05:43 PM

motorfirebox said:
of course, if the UN won't allow gengineered wheat to be given away free to starving people, i'm sure they'll nix tubmeat as well. assholes.



So very very true.

Vanessa

Vanessa

SUICIDEGIRL

New Mexico, USA

APR 22, 2008 05:59 PM

Aren't we all supposed to die in 2012 anyway?

silversoul7

silversoul7

Portland, OR
January 2008

APR 22, 2008 06:03 PM

Vanessa said:
Aren't we all supposed to die in 2012 anyway?



According to those who don't understand the Mayan calendar, yes.

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

APR 22, 2008 06:04 PM

Vanessa said:
Aren't we all supposed to die in 2012 anyway?



If Quetzalcoatl has anything to say about it.

xo_b_mac

xo_b_mac

Markham, ON
June 2007

APR 22, 2008 06:05 PM

Vanessa said:
Aren't we all supposed to die in 2012 anyway?



No.

xo_b_mac

xo_b_mac

Markham, ON
June 2007

APR 22, 2008 06:08 PM

motorfirebox said:
i really don't care about the animal-saving aspects of tubmeat. what i'm interested in is the possibilities for cheap mass-production, to help alleviate world hunger.

of course, if the UN won't allow gengineered wheat to be given away free to starving people, i'm sure they'll nix tubmeat as well. assholes.



I think a more logical way to solve world hunger is through plant genetics...not fake meat

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