Test-Tube Meat. Yum. Sounds Absolutely Delightful.....

Interesting. I stopped eating meat due to my love of animals and concerns of cruelty. Watching a film in college with the birds shoved in tiny cages, beaks cut off.... And my human anatomy art class--put me over the edge. Having to draw what our nude model's muscles looked like--without skin on top and thinking, "wow, that arm looks like a chicken wing." Mock meat used to mean veggie burgers and soy chicken, but there maybe something new on grocer's isles in a few years.....

From TIME magazine: On Monday, the clamorous animal rights group PETA announced it would award $1 million to the first person to come up with a way to make commercially viable in vitro meat by 2012. The fake meat would have to be indistinguishable from the real deal, according to competition rules, and it would have to be cheap enough to succeed in the marketplace.

The talk is that perhaps they could grow this meat to be higher in omega 3s and without bacteria and disease found on farms. Would you eat meat produced in a lab? Hmmm, I'd have to think about that.