PETA Offers $1M Prize For Lab-Grown Meat That Retains Real Meat Taste

Boston (dbTechno) - An animal rights group, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has put up $1 million offer to any scientists who is able to create lab-grown meat that could be used commercially.

PETA is hopeful that a scientist will be able to step up to the plate and create a lab-grown meat that is absolutely indistinguishable compared to the real meat.

The group has promised the $1 million to the first scientist who can create an dmarket the meat by the summer of 2012.

The scientist must be able to create enough of the meat so that it can be sold in 10 states in the U.S.

A taste test panel is going to be brought in to test if the lab-grown meat tastes the same or not.

PETA admits that “We’re still several years away from having in vitro meat be available to the general public.”

They continue to push as to try and save the over 40 billion pigs, cows, chicken, fish, etc. killed for food each year in the U.S.