14 DAY TRIAL // It was only yesterday that the world's first test-tube burger was cooked and eaten in London, and PETA couldn't be more thrilled that the scientific community is finally doing something to help green up the food industry.
The organization has long argued that people have to quit eating meat, not just to show compassion towards animals, but also to protect the environment.
Since the chances that the entire human population will soon embrace veganism are slim to none, laboratory-grown meat appears to be a noteworthy compromise.
“Besides eliminating the need to slaughter billions of animals every year, growing meat in a laboratory would end clear-cutting of forests for livestock production, conserve vast amounts of water and energy, and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions for meat production by 78 to 96 percent,” the organization writes on its official website.
“The debut of this lab-grown burger is the first important step toward realizing the dream of one day putting environmentally sound, humanely produced real meat into the hands and mouths of the people who insist upon eating animal flesh,” PETA goes on to say.
According to food researcher Hanni Rutzler, the burger did not exactly taste like meat. However, it did taste better than soya and other meat substitutes, and its surface was surprisingly crunchy.