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PETA Offers X-Prize for Artificial Meat
Bored MPA writes "The Times reports that PETA is to 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." PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk addressed the controversial decision by saying, "We don't mind taking uncomfortable positions if it means that fewer animals suffer." An unexpected and pragmatic move from an organization that has a strong base of support from pro-organic vegans." The question I always had about this- if they can take one sample from one animal and clone it in a vat and feed this world, will the vegans be ok with that?
no matter the past evolutionary impact of meat in the protohuman diet it is now unnecessary
Please provide credible academic citations for this assertion. It is incorrect.
Oh yea, and they need to make sure they got money set aside to pay for animal contraceptives, spade or neutering before they get us all on spamalicious meals. Once we stop eating them the animal population will rise, and thus conditions for the animals will worsen, food will become scarce, disease will become rampant. If they don't work that out first, we will have to start killing them just to thin out their population, and that will be oh so much better for them.
Yummmm...
You are what you eat. I don't want to be a vegetable.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
If we weren't meant to eat meat, it wouldn't taste so good.
I belong to PETA by the way. I'm a Person Eating Tasty Animals.
-- I ignore anonymous replies to my comments and postings.
"Vegetarianism is not dumb or for tree-huggers, it's a very logical position."
Vegetarianism (when done for moral reasons) is hypocritical and without logic. You don't get to take the high ground on ethics by claiming that you don't kill animals when vegetarians murder TRILLIONS of the most defenseless life forms on the planet DAILY. Your complaint about the horrors of factory farming. Have you seen how they grow plants? It sure isn't free range. Claiming that eating plants is ethically OK and meat is not is like a murderer saying that his killing is OK because he only kills dumb people. No... Your shade of gray is not better than mine.
"we don't even have room on the planet for the crops to feed all the cattle that would be eaten by 6 billion human beings if humanity followed an american/western diet, and that's not even counting the crops still needed to feed humans the rest of the plant based food they need anyway."
This is a problem of over population. Period. Over population is not solved by eating plants. It is solved by having fewer babies than deaths. Period. Even if you poorly thought out idea had any validity, it would only be a temporary measure. So, either you are are not clearly thinking things out, or you are intentionally using and invalid argument. Unless, you have some plan on what you plan on eating when the population outstrips the plant production. If you do, lets hear it.
There is no ethical argument against any farmed meat. The fact is humanity would not exist had we not eventually begun eating meat. People don't just get to change what millions of years of evolution has determined is a proper human diet.