A week ago I posted about almost-ready-for-prime-time artificial meat. I bet that the PETArasts would denounce it, while Chef Mojo figured they’d be in favour of it. Looks like Chef was right and I was wrong.

PETA’s Latest Tactic: $1 Million for Fake Meat

The organization said it would announce plans on Monday for a $1 million prize to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat at competitive prices by 2012.”

But it was a near thing:

But, Ms. Newkirk said, the decision to sponsor a prize caused “a near civil war in our office,” since so many PETA members are repulsed by the thought of eating animal tissue, even if no animals are killed.

I’d expected the extremists to carry the day, but the moderates won out. Oh, well, better luck in November, where I’m looking forward to an Obama victory, carried by class warfare rhetoric, inflammatory racist remarks, and treasonous anti-American stump speeches. Followed, in two years, by an electoral backlash that makes 1994 look like business as usual.

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