The Colbert Report Tackles the Sensitive Subject of Shmeat
Filed under: film-tv, food & drink, television, video — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 12:33 pm
March 19th 2009
Get out your petri dish..we growin’ us some schmeat.
On Tuesday, The Colbert Report highlighted a new product called Schmeat — also known as lab-grown meat.
The segment featured thoughts from PETA’s co-founder Ingrid Newkirk and words from scientist Dr.Vladimir Mironov. Proving that lab-grown meat is just like real meat, Mironov said:
“You know, if its looks like cat, o.k, it’s behave like cat and it’s make meow, then it’s cat.” Classic.
Check out the clip below and share your thoughts on this lab-grown nastiness.
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Tagged: ingrid newkirk, stephen colbert, vladimir mironov
Ingrid Newkirk is insane.
Lab-grown meat, while revolting to non-meat eaters would save the lives of billions of animals if it were implemented to the extent that factory farms are.
I can see in vitro meat going the way of GMO’s, however. Which is unfortunate because the lab meat would certainly be cleaner than the factory farmed meat of today.
I think the real answer to this dilemma is Soylent Green.
I’m with Eric on this one.. Seriously, HUGE environmental impact on our planet solved if they could do it in labs, and if it were grown in a clean (non GMO) fashion and it did look better than the specimen they kept showing? And it tasted good? Why not?!
I think people laugh… but I’m sure folks would’ve laughed 100 years ago if they’d been told some of the sick things we do today (including giant factory farms where animals are abused and the meat is tainted and we get diseases from eating it… we cut down forests to grow crops to feed these animals .. the same poor animals who pollute our planet … i mean it makes sense to me.
I bet you anything in 100 more years we’ll be doing it that way. I wouldn’t laugh. And I don’t think Ingrid is crazy on this one.. other stuff maybe, but not this.
Erin
Actually I’ve heard about this before…
I’m all for it! That would mean less pollution and the most important thing of all no more sacrificing animals!
Look, most of the food we eat has already been modified in one way or another… some products more than others but pretty much everything has already been either synthesized in labs or genetically modified (something I’m against btw).
At least this would mean that there would be no more reasons to continue to use animals as mere resources.
And maybe ending world hunger would actually become a reality!
Why not?
I’m a vegan and I would never eat any kind of meat including this lab grown meat, however, I support it because it could save the 27 billion animals a year currently being murdered while helping the environment. I personally would love a vegan world but this is is good enough for now.