Thought y'all might be interested in this article just uploaded to the
Beyond Veg website:

http://www.beyondveg.com/nicholson-w/applesteak/applesteak-1a.shtml

SPECIAL REPORT: Applesteak Fruit, Lab Beef, Plantimals Next from Biotech Firms.

SYNOPSIS -- Steak genes in apples? Disembodied meat grown as tissue culture
in warehouse-sized labs? Half-plant/half-animal hybrids that look like
chickens or cows but have roots rather than feet? It's every
vegetarian's--probably even a few compassionate non-vegetarians'--worst
nightmare come true. And it could all happen soon thanks to out-of-control
biotech corporations if this report is to be believed.

More at the address above.

--Ward Nicholson <[log in to unmask]>