Here’s the Word: PETA’s Ingrid on Colbert Last Night!

Published by PETA Staff.
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So, who watched The Colbert Report last night? I did, of course, but that’s not unusual for me. Once again, Stephen’s endless pursuit of hard-hitting news has led him to feature PETA’s ideas—and Ingrid was on the show!

Colbert interviewed Ingrid on a subject that’s either revolutionary or revolting, depending on your point of view: in vitro meat. As you may remember, PETA is offering 1 million dollars to the first team of scientists that can develop a method to produce viable, commercially available, lab-grown chicken meat by 2010. If the in vitro meat looks and tastes just like the “real thing” and can be sold at a competitive price, then even those who refuse to kick their meat addictions will have no justification for the continued slaughter of animals for food.

As you may have seen in last night’s episode, scientists are already tackling this, ahem, meaty issue. And hey, who knows—maybe the “Colbert Bump” was exactly what this contest needed! We anticipate an absolute flood of entries in the very near future.

As for in vitro meat, what does the PETA Files nation think—revolutionary or revolting?

Written by Amanda Schinke

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