PETA offers $1M prize for test-tube chicken
 

PETA offers $1M prize for test-tube chicken

NORFOLK?An animal rights group wants to keep chickens alive and clucking by offering a $1 million prize for the creation of real poultry meat that could be mass-produced in a laboratory.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it is looking for commercially viable "in vitro chicken" ? taking stem cells and growing them into poultry flesh, presumably without the feathers and bones. The process would eliminate the need to kill chickens for their meat, the group says.

The outspoken group based in Norfolk, Va., says on its Web site that the prize would be awarded to the first people who create such a product in a large quantity and successfully sell it at a competitive price in at least 10 states before June 30, 2012.

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/417456

Anyone read the book 'The Space Merchants' by Frederick Pohl? There is this plant where they keep this giant living chunk of meat and just keep hacking bits off. Small part of the book, the rest of it is absolute genius.

Somewhere in the back of my deep grey matter I am pulling out a kids story I was read as a kid where there were plants that grew hotdogs.

PETA and Scientologists occupy the same area of an insane twilight-zone reality.

come to think about it, every time you eat a chicken breast sandwich, a poor chicken dies. It kind of s*cks, poor animals... but they taste great!

Um good chicken needs bones for flavor anyways lol. Plus who will want a limp drum stick or wing part?

Flip side we must keep eating chickens, I for one do not want to be neck deep in those fuckers and it would take only a year or two before we are overran. The damn fuckers make an egg about every 25 hours. At least its chicken though and not pig, country already has a feral pig issue wrecking havoc on veggies.

I say we slaughter PETA.

So... they expect meat to just grow... and tastes good... out of a tube?

Well, okay... but $1 million isn't going to get them anywhere. That's actually pretty laughable.

wow PETA = a bunch of crazy dumbfucks

So does that mean that test-tube animals/people/whatever aren't to be treated as living beings? Or does that just mean that once test-tube products become more mainstream in the future, some organization will emerge to protect their rights and the cycle continues?

PETA have always been fucked in the head... :2 cents:

Peta is fucking Corrupt!

That would be awesome. Go PETA.

People should be forced to kill and skin their own meat, they'd eat it much less.

If anyone has ever raised chickens or been around them at all knows pretty damn well that they have the mental capacity one step higher than a grasshopper. Seriously they are not suffering much. Oh and I hope they understand them fuzzy little chickens are mean as hell to each other. One chicken shows any sign of weakness or injury and the rest perform a mob attack on the fucker and peck it to pieces and then eat it. They do not even have to be hurt or whatnot. One chicken can just not like another and peck it, after a small bit blood shows and then wham its now chicken food and that bird has a fate of being pecked to death by its peers. Talk about a sucky way to die.

Only because people would not have access to meat in order to raise it. Killing animals is not a big deal at all, specially if you were raised around it. Only animal I ever had trouble with killing was rabbits. I know why as well. Pushing it onto the hanging nail was not an issue, cracking it in the head was also not an issue (saving pelts so blunt force is way to go). It was the fact that they scream like a woman being raped when you grab them that got under my skin.

Not all those eggs are fertilized...

I hate PETA's tatics almost as much as any other bullshit political function that's retarded and short sighted. Animals are fucking food. Tyson fucks up their chickens; therefore, I don't buy them. If they wrapped dead PETA folks in pretty translucent plastic, I'd probably buy it and grill it up just to piss them off.

That is freaking disgusting and I can't believe PETA is supporting this idea.

I really thought this meant they were paying $1m for someone to steal an illegally altered bird from a secret farm to prove they're not using real chickens... ;)

Humans, such a nice species...

http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/chicken-egg-01.jpg

http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/chicken-egg-04.jpg

http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/chicken-egg-06.jpg

http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/chicken-egg-17.jpg

Why?

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1 million dollars?? Only that???????

So what would you say if a doctor told you that you could get a new kidney that is lab grown instead of waiting for one to be donated? "Freaking disgusting" or a major medical breakthrough?

The ability to grow meat for consumption in a lab would be equally as huge. Obviously their $1M reward for this is just a publicity stunt, but the science has been in development for years and it will eventually be reality.

Chickens are evil!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9VQxYMHX-YE (not a rickroll)

10-15 years and petri dish meat will be standard.
And it's a geat solution to a number problems: CO2 reduction, animall wellbeing, public health, production capacity, etc, etc.

Not to long ago people shivered by the idea of vegetables on waterculture, today it's perecrly normal and thousands of bind tastings have proven that there is, in most cases, no taste difference.

Start a revolution. Kill yourself.

When I first heard the headline on the news that is what I thought too.

Hehe I know that Elli, but enough are.

Here is some basic stats:

U.S. egg production totaled 7.66 billion during January 2008, down slightly from last year. Production included 6.52 billion table eggs, and 1.14 billion hatching eggs.

Thats 1 month and just the US. Then they also reach sexual maturity in 5-6 months. Someone else can do the math. Oh and there would be many less table eggs I would assume.

Agreed. It isn't a whackjob idea, but it won't happen by 2012. It will take a while before people accept it, but ultimately they will I think.

It's not a bad idea if it's viable. Skin grafts have been used in hospitals for a long time now to treat patients so the science for growing flesh exists. If it can be done commercially on chicken meat for commercial consumption it'll probably become standard practice eventually, but I think it will be further into the future than 10 - 15 years from now.

I don't know if the science is at the point where it makes financial sense to grow it in the lab, even if it's possible to do so, rather than sticking to raising real chicken. I think it takes 7 weeks to grow chickens to market; can flesh in the lab be grown in the same time? A similar example is that for years now we've been trying to figure out how to breed and harvest lobsters, but not only do we not know how to breed them efficiently (if at all since their larvae go thru so many stages and are extremely vulnerable), but getting them to market size takes years, which is why they're only still fished out of the oceans dwindling populations. Right or wrong, the financial logistics will have to work before industries begin growing and marketing lab grown chicken meat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4148164.stm

Google it for more. But yeah it will make sense with time, especially with food prices going the way they are.

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But relax, you're not the different one

there was a torchwood episode this season that was exactly like this
the "monster" was being chopped up alive because it kept growing back everything that was being cut.

They were grinding it up and pretending it was beef.

personally it think we are going to move to a cheaply produced chicken flavored soy curd.

It amazing the profit margins on that stuff now given it cost to produce. I think in the future we will all be eating soy chicken/ soy beef not because it is lower in fat and healthier but because it will be cheaper to produce.

They are on my celebrity hit list.
I am the ANTI-PETA
That bitch needs to kill herself

That's gross.

The worst to kill is a lamb ! It makes the saddest sound possible it almost makes you cry !!!