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Hobbes@startrek.website to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

With lab grown meat we could see the advent of ethical cannibalism.

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With lab grown meat we could see the advent of ethical cannibalism.

Hobbes@startrek.website to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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  • TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world
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    It’s not as fun without the suffering.

    • A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world
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      It’s like reverse lobsters. You gotta be able to taste the fear. 🤌

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        ironically slaughterhouses have long since figured out that stress makes the meat terrible, and at this point livestock is probably dying more peacefully than most humans.

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      Don’t worry, our source cells are from the most depressed individuals we could find. And our workers are the poorest immigrant pre-teens to ensure maximum suffering.

      Don’t forget to try our human tiddy sour cream, it’s sourced from the same pre-teens!

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      So far, there’s still suffering in lots of convoluted, drawn-out, disturbing ways : ( hoping they can quickly advance technology past the current methods

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    With every passing day I come to regret more and more my ability to read.

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      You want some of this? You want to really eat this? Hit the button and subscribe, and you’ll get monthly shipments of meat grown from various parts of my body!

      • Belly: $50
      • Thighs: $60
      • Armpit: $70
      • Lips: $90
      • Breasts: $110
      • Dat ass: $150
      • Anus: $200
      • Puss: $300
      • RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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        Thighs would be easily the tastiest part, should be more expensive imo

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    I could see people from onlyfans auctioning their meats. It’s the only natural progression of lab-grown meat industry.

    • FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world
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      I hate that you’re right about this

    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
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      Holy fucking hell, that’s a non-chalant way to express a horror movie setting. It sounds like something out of Hellraiser.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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        Hellraiser 10: The Fundraiser

    • cjf@feddit.uk
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      The dildo industry in general is gonna be filled with even more realism.

      • TurtleTourParty@midwest.social
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        Clone a Willie will be a much different product.

    • potoo22@programming.dev
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      That’s fucked up… (I wonder how much money I can get for my meat)

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      If this happens, I predict there will be at least one serial killer (or intended serial killer if they are caught before making it to the minimum) that will start there but then will become obsessed with the idea of eating the real thing and will make it happen, starting with some randoms and eventually going for the OF whose meat started it for them.

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    Regular cannibalism is ethical, it just depends on who you eat

    • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
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      Sounds like it’s a personal choice.

      • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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        not for the person I’m eating, but yeah

    • AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world
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      I use all parts of the animal :)

      • hglman@lemmy.ml
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        Prion disease is for you!

      • SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org
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        Terrifying

        • bastion@feddit.nl
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          I mean, if you think about it, up to the advent of vat meat, the only truly vegan many meat was human meat, because only humans can grant consent.

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            eh, tofu and seitan has been a thing in asia since time immemorial

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              Tofu and seitan isn’t meat

      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world
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        Then I eat it

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        Name checks out?

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    “cannibal” is a derogatory term. Nowadays we prefer to be called gourmetally challenged.

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      Vegetarianism: the custom of eating vegetables. So I guess we are witnessing the birth of humanitarianism.

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      “Gourmetally free”, surely, without the oppression of the squeamish crowds?

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    we’ve never breed humans selectively for tastiness

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      Look for the ones that drink a lot of beer. It’ll be like Kobe beef but human.

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      the Morlocks have entered the chat

  • hglman@lemmy.ml
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    Seems like a real risk for the introduction of prion diseases.

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      Hmmmmmmmm I thought prion diseases were (usually) a result of eating brain matter and occasionally the result of eating non brain matter that shared a body with a brain. By this understanding, the risk of prion diseases wouldn’t be a factor as only the misfolded proteins of a brain are ones that can be risky.

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        A prion is just a misfolded protine that has some adverse behavior that your body can’t detect (there’s a mechanism that if your body identifies a malformed protine, it will terminate the cell making it). Anyway, prions live in this small region in a Venn diagram whereits can’t be detected, but can still replicate and cause harm.

        We mostly think of prion diseases (like mad cow) affecting the brain, but I dont think prions are isolated to the brain… Prion deseases happen to involve the brain a lot because a misbehaving protine in your brain will have a lot more apparent effects

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      But you could knock out the prion protein gene in the cell lines you use for meat production. It’s not needed for cell survival as far as I know.

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      In lab grown meat there is less risk of prions than in natural meat. Prions occur naturally and accumulate in the body, specifically the brain, because we have no way to get rid of them. In lab grown meat, the risk of acquiring prions through the animal’s diet is eliminated and the risk of the animal acquiring prions itself during its lifespan is reduced, assuming the meat is grown over a shorter period of time. This is true regardless of what kind of animal the meat duplicates.

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    Eat a steak made of the cells of your favourit celebrity.

    • unalkalkan@lemmy.world
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      future billion dollar idea right there

    • stringere@lemmy.world
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      Literally eat the rich.

    • Square Singer@feddit.de
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      Thanks, that reminded me of the story of “Perfume” again.

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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        And the film Antiviral

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    Is it really cannibalism if the meat wasn’t actually from a person? 🤔

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      They say you are what you eat, so you eat what you are. Therefore you are a cannibal

    • editilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Regarding your username, if you log into lemmy with normal characters, does it let you or do you have to use the emoji letters every time?

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        The emoji letters are just a display name. The actual username, which you log in with, uses normal characters.

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        It’s just the display name. Usernames can’t use special characters.

  • Duranie@lemmy.film
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    I can see someone submitting a DNA sample to Ancestry and watching the horror/drama unfold.

    What would be worse - finding out the sample came from a missing person, or someone who never offered the donation?

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      This was the Mormon agenda all along.

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    Why would we eat lab-grown human when there are so many delicious animals to be had?

    Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry’s?

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      A1 for steak, 57 for burgers, only used the Lawrys marinade but now I gotta try some of the sauce.

      Agreed though, why go for long pork when pork pork is already so tasty?

    • PoopingCough@lemmy.world
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      Just s & p, that’s for me

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      Novelty? Not wanting to talk to your grandkids?

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    This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

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    In Arthur C Clark’s 1964 short story “Food of the Gods” a synthetic- meat company came out with a very tasty and great-selling product. Turns out it’s cultured human tissue.

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      There’s also the film Soylent Green (1973), though that isn’t lab-grown human tissue

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    ‘The Ophiuchi Hotline,’ by John Varley. A food engineer is sentenced to death after the authorities discover that her ‘banana meat’ tree has human DNA. Great read.

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    Technically, I guess.

    Unfortunately, we still seem to be very far away from it replacing our usual way of growing meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zCf4Yup34

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