PETA is offering a $1 million prize for the first person to come up with a method to produce meat grown in a laboratory
By Captain Maverick
Apr 24, 2008 23:14 PM GMT
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, (PETA), is offering a $1 million prize for the first person to come up with the perfect fake meat. This would be meat commercially produced in viable quantities in a lab at competitive prices by the year 2012. This meat must be "in vitro" or test-tube grown, and current soy meat substitutes tend to be fairly disappointing at best. The announcement has actually caused some upset within PETA as the current membership debate whether anyone would ever eat any animal tissue that has ever been a part of an animal. So far only a small amount of meat tissue has ever been grown in a laboratory and it remains to be seen whether or not any consumers would like the idea of eating meat from a petri dish. And to date, most PETA members seem to take issue with anything that may at any time have been any part of an animal at any time. In a statement released this week by PETA, they stated that they are disgusted by the conventional meat industry that raises animals, especially chickens and pigs, in an inhumane confined system that causes a significant amount of environmental damage. It is PETA's hope that this challenge will lead to the end of the domesticated farm animal and lead to a more humane way of producing meat.
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