In-vitro Meat: Would Lab-Burgers be Better for us and the Planet?
Nice article on in vitro meat at CNN. Big congratulations to Jason Matheny. You're a winner. Soon we will be able to stop eating animals, which everyone knows deep down might be conscious (though they like to underweight the probability due to their love of eating them).
First step: eliminate the killing of animals by humans for food. Step two: rearrange the entire ecosystem so that predators cannot harm conscious prey. A fairly modest proposal, if you ask me.
PETA Acts Stupid Again
PETA constantly shoots itself in the foot. This time they put out a press release saying they wish that Obama didn't swat a fly. The last time they missed up pretty badly (that I remember, anyway), is when they proposed calling fish "sea kittens".
If PETA consisted of savvy utilitarians, they would realize that making statements that are totally unpersuasive to a huge majority undermines their ability to persuade more people to stop contributing to the mass imprisonment and killing of animals with actual intelligence, such as pigs, or the casual and common abuse of dogs and cats.
The press release said:
"We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals," PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. "We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals."
Well, there are millions of small animals all around us, called microfauna. We probably kill hundreds of them every time we eat a crumb, because our food is full of them and our digestive acids "murder" them. If all animals are equal, then should we focus obsessively on not killing the microfauna?