Lab Meat: Tastes Like a Million Bucks

It would be a good start to see realistic discussion on this issue and cut all the emotionally driven reactive garbage that has been ´thrown up here´ If you want to state any ´so called facts´, please back them up with truly reliable and checkable references. I personally am mostly vegetarian, when I eat out I eat some fish or seafood, mainly because of the severe lack of vegatarian choices. However its comments like the two I have quoted below that give the average person the perception that all vegetarians are living on the lunatic fringe. amber Falobas Well...it may not be made from animals...but it still has the word meat in it so i still wouldnt eat it. Judith, Freedom Fighter for Animals At this time I can't go with this idea. The idea of eating even a Veggie Burger makes me ill. It's round just like a meat burger and just looking at it makes me ill. Anything shaped like meat is just sending the wrong message. And Ingrid you are causing alot of infighting in PETA'S organization. You yourself in an article this has come close to a civil war in our office. You also said that PETA will be losing many members over this. Be very careful you are coming close to losing some of your finest people that have worked for PETA for many years. Please rethink this. Amber Its just a word, get over it. It doesn´t matter what its called. Tell me would you refuse to eat something that was labeled meatless or meat-free just because you could see the word meat? Judith, what has the shape of something got to do with its composition? good grief, does that mean you cant eat, say, animal crackers? If you scratch the surface you would find any number of cultures that have vegetarian base foods that are round or patty shaped. for example crumbed fried slices of Eggplant, (Aubergine). AS I said, its ridiculous statements like these that leave the average person withteh perception that most if not all of us vegetarians are on day leave from the local mental asylum. Oh, and just in case anyones is interested, the reason I even know about this issue is because it was mentioned on the ´New South Whales Country hour´ program that airs from midday weekdays on our ABC Local radio. http://www.abc.net.au/local/ http://www.abc.net.au/radio/listenlive.htm http://www.abc.net.au/rural/nsw/ I only wish we could poach Libby Price from the Viccy country hour, she has the sort of voice that just seems to make me feel better about the world. http://www.abc.net.au/rural/vic/ Any way, enough of the shameless plugs

PETA needs to give them money because Monsanto is gonna kill off our food supply with GMOs. With mass famine, we'll need to eat something or starve to death.

And yes this would appeal to the "manly redblooded meat eater" type since with vatgrown meat they can eat any animal in the world not just the ones that can be farmed. You don't think lionburgers and great white shark steaks would be popular with the football crowd? Giant squid gila monsters whales elephants gorillas alligators.... "long pigs". Anything you can get a tissue sample from you can make a burger out of with no suffering. The "real men" would love to show off what they can eat.

I have several issues with PETA's support of "in vitro" meat. Firstly culturing of this meat aka muscles cells in a dish requires growth factors from fetal bovine serum also known as FBS. FBS is literally serum taken from the blood of prenatal cows. This hardly reduces animal suffering in my opinion. Secondly muscle cells grown in culture are not necessarily safe to eat. Cells grown in culture often aquire mutations which in a living organism would lead to things like cancer. Would you eat a tumor off of a cow? I think not. PETA should use its 1 million dollars to help fund farmers' markets and on educating people about becoming vegetarian or vegan. In vitro meat will not end animal suffering or the environmental issues associated with the farming of beef. Please PETA educate yourselves and the public before throwing money at something like this.

Have you not seen I AM LEGEND? You don't mess with Jehovahs ideas.