The Future is Here! Vat-grown meat!

SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. Experts in Holland used cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish.

The advent of so-called “in-vitro” or cultured meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.

So far the scientists have not tasted it, but they believe the breakthrough could lead to sausages and other processed products being made from laboratory meat in as little as five years’ time.

They initially extracted cells from the muscle of a live pig. Called myoblasts, these cells are programmed to grow into muscle and repair damage in animals.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6936352.ece

Zombie dogs

US Researchers have managed to drain the blood from a dog, replace it with a saline solution, thereby officially killing the dog and then, using electric shocks, oxygen and replacing the blood, bring it back to life… several times. Apparently none the worse for wear. They want to use this technology to store soldiers with serious injuries, so they can be fixed whilst they’re dead and then reanimated…
Is this going to open gateways from other dimensions into our own world? Have the researchers thought about that?

Lion kicks shit out of 42 Cambodian midgets

Spectators cheered as entire Cambodian Midget Fighting League squared off against African Lion

Tickets had been sold-out three weeks before the much anticipated fight, which took place in the city of Kâmpóng Chhnãng.

The fight was slated when an angry fan contested Yang Sihamoni, President of the CMFL, claiming that one lion could defeat his entire league of 42 fighters.


Nope 🙂
Thanks BBC for this piece of in depth, investigative reporting

Say No to online hunting

Lawmaker Aims To Outlaw Hunting, Killing Animals Online
Shoot To Kill Real Animals Using Your Computer Mouse For $300

POSTED: 8:25 pm CST March 24, 2005
UPDATED: 10:32 am CST March 25, 2005

A lot of people fire fake guns playing video games. But now there’s a way to use your computer to fire an actual gun and kill live animals.

Video

Linda Eggert Reports: Internet Hunting

Live-Shot.com: See The Gun

Should Wisconsin ban real-time hunting Web sites?

So-called “Internet hunting” has prompted a firestorm of controversy and a possible ban in Wisconsin.

No way! You can actually use someone elses remote control machine gun to shoot animals?! Cool!