It would be more beneficial, educational and powerful to have vegan detergent/makeup/clothes etc.. (no animal products nor animal tested) and sell in the mainstream business market, versus showcasing big booby Pamela Anderson.

However, if they are doing this for real, than sure I am all for it. As our current foods are so far from being natural, -I think it would be better for people to eat lab meat than a real animal. - Sure local and organic is great, (I buy most of my foods), but really if a animal is sick, than it doe snot matter about the mileage nor the geography of the animal.

extrapolation

slippery slope

unintended consequences

frankenfood

Did you have the same concerns of "slippery slope" when test tube babies were created, or how about the advancement of when med's occured, or what about life support machines, were at the hospitals throwning up your hands and protesting about those things?

Please do not get all "ethical" now, if you take med's than you have already been part of that slippery slope for many years now!

And whatever foods you are eating right now, is probably modified from its original source. Unless you grow every single thing yourself, you will never know exactly how "frankenfood" your food really is?

we don't eat eagles because it is just not right

if test tube beef is okay

then is all meat fair game?

exotic test tube steak okay?

So if test tube dog occurs, most american will not eat it, but the most people in china will "wolf" it down without a second thought!

Many people get sick form eating animals today, and thats their choice, so if they want eat test tube meat, - go for it!

I just want the cruelty towards animals (including humans to stop).

So if domestic animal food can be replaced with test tube animal food, GREAT!  It would relieve our battered planet of one of the many harms that humans cause by eliminating animal husbandry.

The ecological point of eating meat is that "meat animals" convert otherwise inedible bits of the landscape into edible bits. Even with otherwise vegetarian staples like apples the use of geese and pigs sharing the orchard improve the productivity and health of that little corner of the biome.

Grain, hay or silage production may not always be the best use of any particular chunk of the landscape even if meat calories are the goal. We need to investigate what all the options are.

Lab grown meat is interesting but ultimately silly.

Put the Carbon Back

I tend to be suspicious of these things. Granted it would be a boon if fewer animals could suffer and/or die in order to feed meat-eating humans. PETA tend to applaud any time a new in vitro methodology is proposed, or accepted, in drug safety testing, but in vitro methodology can be very tricky.  Some cells are notoriously fickle, and require 'fresh' cells (il.e. a recently dead animal) while others can operate well on frozen cells which can be stored for quite a long time.  Some of the in vitro tests used in drug safety testing that PETA applauds don't actually use fewer animal numbers, and the results are generally less conclusive, often necessitating a follow-up animal study, which then just increases animal use.

There is also the carbon-impact of large labs churning out test-tube meat, although I suppose the methane from cows may 'offset' any carbon impacts if fewer animals are truly used. Might it not be better to simply raised pastured animals, humanely, that can turn grass, sunlight & water into protein?

but test tube dog or chimp may be good!

i'd try it

no cruelty involved

i'd also try test tube california condor drumsticks

what would you try?

from a vat, we may get slabs of humming bird muscle or cat roasts

the imagination runs wild wild wild

everything would literally be on the table

grow it up in a vat

and you could serve yourself for dinner!

amaze and shock and creep out your friends

it will be the latest trend for the wealthy

a few pounds of meat, millions of dollars

the look on their faces when you tell them what it is, priceless

Now if we could only GMO a bison so that dozens of ostrich wings grew out of  it's hide attached with that lizard connection. You'd get the usefulness of the bison's super-efficient digestive system with plenty of renewable meat. Just snap a few off when they're full grown and send the beastie back out into the field.

Buffalo wings. Yum.

Put the Carbon Back

What would be far better would be for humans to consume a lot less meat, and to limit that consumption to wild meat, like fish and venison.  That would be much better for the environment AND the animals.

Let's say a have a veggie garden in my suburban backyard.  Let's say I also have some chickens.. I don't know, about a dozen of them.  I let the chickens control bugs, manage weeds, keep me from having to cut the grass in the remnants of my traditional lawn, and eat my kitchen scraps and excess whey from my  homemade mozzarella.  In return, they provide me with eggs, fertilizer, and every now and then, a chicken dinner.  You're saying that this is worse for the environment, and the animals, than me killing & eating a local deer? And, it's worse than test-tube beef?

I know that the above scenario represents an extremely low percentage of where your average American gets their meat.  I know that conventional means of raising meat animals are destructive, inhumane and basically horrid. I know that humans need to eat much less meat (and fish, for that matter).  What I'm saying is that there seem to be better options for PETA to encourage than test-tube hamburgers.

1. It is not an expensive hamburger because the prize is for fried chicken substitute. Must pass a taste test with fried chicken recipe

2. Prize winner must be selling retail in 10 states to win with competitive price.

Chicken is one of the cheaper meats, which is why the industry is going for ground beef and pork first. Easier to sub out ground meat and they are more expensive per pound than chicken.

Check this out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxtZHOE4ScY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa