PETA Offers $1 Million for Test-Tube Chicken
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An animal-rights group wants to keep chickens alive and clucking by offering a $1 million prize for the creation of real poultry meat that could be mass-produced in a laboratory.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says it is looking for commercially viable "in vitro chicken" — taking stem cells and growing them into poultry flesh, presumably without the feathers and bones.
The process would eliminate the need to kill chickens for their meat, the group says.
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The outspoken group based in Norfolk, Va., says on its Web site that the prize would be awarded to the first people who create such a product in a large quantity and successfully sell it at a competitive price in at least 10 states before June 30, 2012.
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