Capitalism for Vegans
How can PETA get people to stop eating delicious meat? By throwing money at them! In a move surprising for its creativity but standard in its capacity for extreme publicity, the animal liberation group is sponsoring a contest to develop commercially viable in vitro meat. I discussed this lab-grown tastiness in a previous post.
The rules of the contest are simple: make the meat, make it taste like chicken (shouldn’t be hard, so many things do), then sell it to people. If you do so before anyone else, you get a cool million. Not a bad deal. And you have four years to do it.
Of course, some people at PETA actually objected, according to this NYTimes article. I blame them for the fact that my Tofu Pups seem to taste less and less like real hotdogs as time goes by.
August 15, 2008 at 1:04 pm
In vitro meat promises to be the greatest advancement in agriculture since the domestication of animals and is a vital solution for our small planet. Unfortunately, there are no active funded in vitro meat research programs in the United States. To address this issue, I have submitted a project titled “Hydroponic Meat for a Sustainable Planet Earth” to the American express members project contest. See link-
http://www.membersproject.com/project/view/H6PLUB
New-Harvest.org has been selected as the funding recipient.
Top nominated and discussed projects are eligible for $2.5 million in funding.
If you are in support of in vitro meat research, nominate this project and add a comment.
We are the pioneers of the future. This is your chance to participate.