This tickled my pickle. I’m a carnivore…well an omnivore, but more carnivorous than omnivorous. In other words, there’s nothing like meat to me… REAL meat. In the wee hours of this morning as I was watching that food crisis stuff, I got wind of this thing. PeTA (People Eating Tasty Animals) lol… I mean People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals came up with this GRRRRREEAAT idea - LAB MEAT. Before I start my argument, let me just state that I don’t eat everything that moves and I love animals. So much that I would’ve become a veterinarian had it not been for all the blood and guts involved. But for Christ’s Sake!!! I know that PETA’s intentions are good, but the road to hell is paved with such good intentions. Dig this.

PETA Offers $1 Million Reward to First to Make In Vitro Meat

Scientists around the world are researching or seeking the funds to research ways to produce meat in the laboratory—without killing any animals. In vitro meat production would use animal stem cells that would be placed in a medium to grow and reproduce. The result would mimic flesh and could be cooked and eaten. Some promising steps have been made toward this technology, but we’re still several years away from having in vitro meat be available to the general public.

PETA is now stepping in and offering a $1 million reward to the first scientist to produce and bring to market in vitro meat.

Why is PETA supporting this new technology? 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.

Of course, humans don’t need to eat meat at all—vegetarians are less likely to get heart disease, diabetes, or various types of cancer or become obese than meat-eaters are—and a terrific array of vegetarian mock meats already exist. But as many people continue to refuse to kick their meat addictions, PETA is willing to help them gain access to flesh that doesn’t cause suffering and death.

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I think I’m going to start my own plants-rights activism group and call it the “Vegetarians” - you know, kind of like Humanitarians. I do believe that the food chain exists for a reason. What gets me is that these people treat meat-eating as an addiction…as if we meat eaters are shooting up with heroine and snorting cocaine at the dining table as if it’s nobody’s business. This is just terrible. I AM NOT PRO GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS OR MANUFACTURED RAT MEAT. I’m not interested in the possibility of my children being born with three eyes and ten hands just for the sake of saving some animal that somebody else is going to eat anyway. I don’t think I need to argue this any further, but I think this is a gut-buster (…and to think, these people are actually serious about this…tsk tsk tsk).