Those ass-tards at PETA have apparently announced a sort of X-prize for the first team of pocket-protectored lab geeks to invent a commercially viable lab-grown chicken meat substitute by the year 2012. Writes the NYT:
A founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, said she had been hoping to get the organization involved in advancing in vitro meat technology for at least a decade.
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.
Okay — my B.S. detector is going off wildly. Not that I expect those batshit crazies at PETA to be in sync with reality most of the time, but if a PETA program exists that’s more hypocritical than its puppy-killing enterprise, this one just might be it.
As anyone who survived college-level biology will tell you, you can’t just grow cells in a vacuum. You need something to grow ‘em in. We used to use bovine serum albumin (yes — from cows), and I’m pretty sure it’s still the gold standard. In other words, every package of lab-grown “chicken” nuggets is going to be percolated up in fluid from a regular animal anyway. Yes, even if the fake “meat” itself is soy protein or something else.
Second, unless PETA abolishes the U.S. Food and Drug Administration by 2012 (hah!), the resulting faux poultry pieces would have to be …wait for it … extensively tested on animals, before they were approved for human consumption.
And once this cluck-cluck soylent green concoction reaches our Wal-Mart shelves, what then? How will PETA go about persuading lions, tigers, and bears to swear off their horrible speciesism and stop making their fellow creatures suffer in the name of nourishment? Will Knut, the celebrated German polar bear, be satisfied eating petri-dish-grown vittles? I nominate PETA spokesman Steve-O to carry out the first few weeks of feedings.
Heee heeee heeeeee …
I just love the fact that these losers are exposed for what they are.
Look: If you want to live without animals, be a vegan. Fine.
But don’t pretend to have an impact on the rest of us.
Who the hell wants to eat fake chicken anyway?
The real thing is fine. Why mess with it?
“Fish not food”…but puppies are fair game.
You guys should start a spin-off site called “Deceiver: PETA edition”
It’s funny, really — PETA makes writing this blog much, much easier. Show me a moral-absolutist cult, and I’ll show you a group of people who can’t possibly practice what they preach.
Amen
peta will get my respect once one of their members walks into a Hell’s Angels club house and throws paint all over the leather wearing members. But since they’re cowards, and bullies that pick only on the weak I’m guessing that’ll never happen. These peta posts don’t deserve funny comments. God I hate these people.