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The animals rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced this week that it will offer a $1 million reward to the inventor of laboratory-grown, tastes-just-like-chicken (or beef or pork), no-animals-were-harmed-in-the-making-of-this-burger meat--should someone come along who can claim that mantle. The Associated Press quickly gobbled up the news, and Time offered its take yesterday. PETA lays out its rationale as follows: "More than 40 billion chickens, fish, pigs, and cows are killed every year for food in the United States in horrific ways. Chickens are drugged to grow so large they often become crippled, mother pigs are confined to metal cages so small they can't move, and fish are hacked apart while still conscious--all to feed America's meat addiction. In vitro meat would spare animals from this suffering. In addition, in vitro meat would dramatically reduce the devastating effects the meat industry has on the environment."
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Will We All Soon Eat Lab-Grown Meat? - Yahoo! News (broken link)
Last edited by NewToCA; 04-30-2008 at 09:34 AM..
Reason: knock off the language stuff, it is still unacceptable
These people are insane and I won't be eating meat grown in a lab either. That is why animals were put on this Earth and I fully intend to enjoy my meat. No offense to vegetarians, but I don't do tofu or soy stuff. PETA is just getting way too out there. I don't want to see animals brutalized but this is how it always has been. They'd probably be ok if we were killing people for food over animals. Whatever.
I find it hard to take PETA and its objections to animal modification seriously, when Pamela Anderson is among its most vociferous supporters. Speaking of modified animals...
These people are insane and I won't be eating meat grown in a lab either. That is why animals were put on this Earth and I fully intend to enjoy my meat. No offense to vegetarians, but I don't do tofu or soy stuff. PETA is just getting way too out there. I don't want to see animals brutalized but this is how it always has been. They'd probably be ok if we were killing people for food over animals. Whatever.
Humans are on this planet to enjoy the fruits of the Earth, including the animals that are designated for "human consumption"! Rent the movie "Soilent Green", it was Edward G. Robinson's last flick, that will answer your interrogatory statement.
I find it hard to take PETA and its objections to animal modification seriously, when Pamela Anderson is among its most vociferous supporters. Speaking of modified animals...
Humans are on this planet to enjoy the fruits of the Earth, including the animals that are designated for "human consumption"! Rent the movie "Soilent Green", it was Edward G. Robinson's last flick, that will answer your interrogatory statement.
I've seen clips and read about it but my stomach couldn't take that movie. I could barely make it through the movie "Alive".
I've seen clips and read about it but my stomach couldn't take that movie. I could barely make it through the movie "Alive".
Sorry about your sensitivity to consumption of humans for food, I've seen the movie several times. "Soilent Green" should be required viewing for all PETA members, maybe they would have a different perspective on the Earth's food chain!
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