Unbelievable News

PETA is making sense (seen via BoingBoing):

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay a million dollars for fake meat — even if it has caused a “near civil war” within the organization.

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.”

In a related story, H*ll froze over.

On the other hand, after the human race moves to an all-algae diet we'll probably encounter autotrophic extraterrestrials who are horrified at the idea of anybody eating their fellow plants.