You're all familiar with PETA right? They spend their time creating nude ads and harassing Anna Wintour. Their latest ploy however, is so much more sinister.
The animal rights organization is offering $1 million smackers to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.” Meaning: Meat in a test tube.
Sounds disgusting, inedible and wholly unnatural. yet it may not be so super-unhealthy. New Harvest, a nonprofit organization formed to promote the field, says on its Web site, “Because meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional animal farms, they can be safer, more nutritious, less polluting and more humane than conventional meat.”
The animal rights organization is offering $1 million smackers to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.” Meaning: Meat in a test tube.
Sounds disgusting, inedible and wholly unnatural. yet it may not be so super-unhealthy. New Harvest, a nonprofit organization formed to promote the field, says on its Web site, “Because meat substitutes are produced under controlled conditions impossible to maintain in traditional animal farms, they can be safer, more nutritious, less polluting and more humane than conventional meat.”
Still...gross. Let's just make all food into liquid pill form and call it a modern 21st century day. Farmers and those who make their living in the agricultural business, what do you say?
(NYT)
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