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

3 years ago by Hobbes to c/showerthoughts

TrismegistusMx 61 points 3 years ago

It's not as fun without the suffering.

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A_Toasty_Strudel 22 points 3 years ago

It's like reverse lobsters. You gotta be able to taste the fear. 🤌

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Swedneck 2 points 3 years ago

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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lalo 7 points 3 years ago

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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soupspoon 6 points 3 years ago

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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coffeeguy 45 points 3 years ago

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

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bastion 15 points 3 years ago

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!

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RogueBanana 6 points 3 years ago

Thighs would be easily the tastiest part, should be more expensive imo

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xantoxis 38 points 3 years ago

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

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bradorsomething 4 points 3 years ago

Sounds like it’s a personal choice.

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xantoxis 4 points 3 years ago

not for the person I'm eating, but yeah

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AdamEatsAss 3 points 3 years ago

I use all parts of the animal :)

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hglman 8 points 3 years ago

Prion disease is for you!

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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime 4 points 3 years ago

Terrifying

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bastion 7 points 3 years ago

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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Swedneck -1 points 3 years ago

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

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dylanTheDeveloper 3 points 3 years ago

Then I eat it

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lord_ryvan 2 points 3 years ago

Name checks out?

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redcalcium 36 points 3 years ago

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

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FrankTheHealer 15 points 3 years ago

I hate that you're right about this

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cjf 14 points 3 years ago

The dildo industry in general is gonna be filled with even more realism.

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TurtleTourParty 2 points 3 years ago

Clone a Willie will be a much different product.

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Tangent5280 10 points 3 years ago

Holy fucking hell, that's a non-chalant way to express a horror movie setting. It sounds like something out of Hellraiser.

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rockerface 7 points 3 years ago

Hellraiser 10: The Fundraiser

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potoo22 4 points 3 years ago

That's fucked up... (I wonder how much money I can get for my meat)

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Buddahriffic 3 points 3 years ago

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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Chadus_Maximus 29 points 3 years ago

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

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Dicska 14 points 3 years ago

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

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Noodle07 2 points 3 years ago

I, too, love my fellow humans

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realaether 4 points 3 years ago

"Gourmetally free", surely, without the oppression of the squeamish crowds?

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fixmycode 27 points 3 years ago

we've never breed humans selectively for tastiness

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tastysnacks 11 points 3 years ago

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

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No_Eponym 7 points 3 years ago

the Morlocks have entered the chat

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hglman 25 points 3 years ago

Seems like a real risk for the introduction of prion diseases.

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ForgetPrimacy 11 points 3 years ago

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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motsu 6 points 3 years ago

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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Ottopus 6 points 3 years ago

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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hedgehog 3 points 3 years ago

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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NRDK 23 points 3 years ago

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

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unalkalkan 14 points 3 years ago

future billion dollar idea right there

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unalkalkan 13 points 3 years ago

Eat The Kardashians

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VinnieFarsheds 10 points 3 years ago

Including the microplasics

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XTornado 5 points 3 years ago

Now with really inserts!

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stringere 9 points 3 years ago

Literally eat the rich.

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squaresinger 5 points 3 years ago

Thanks, that reminded me of the story of "Perfume" again.

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killeronthecorner 4 points 3 years ago

And the film Antiviral

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Duranie 17 points 3 years ago

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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BeMoreCareful 6 points 3 years ago

This was the Mormon agenda all along.

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Kolanaki 16 points 3 years ago

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

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small44 7 points 3 years ago

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

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editilly 3 points 3 years ago

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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56_ 9 points 3 years ago

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

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Kolanaki 3 points 3 years ago

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

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0Empty0 12 points 3 years ago

This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

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dukethorion 11 points 3 years ago

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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PoopingCough 6 points 3 years ago

Just s & p, that's for me

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FordBeeblebrox 6 points 3 years ago

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?

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Paaliaq 10 points 3 years ago

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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Especially_the_lies 9 points 3 years ago

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

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Dagwood222 8 points 3 years ago

'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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Tylerdurdon 8 points 3 years ago

Could I grow my own meat and then tell people to eat me?

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SnowdenHeroOfOurTime 4 points 3 years ago

🤢🤮

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CorrodedCranium 7 points 3 years ago

Reminds me a bit of the plot the movie Antiviral but with meat instead of illnesses

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DrQuint 6 points 3 years ago

We could see the advent of ethical and unharmful autophagia

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XTornado 5 points 3 years ago

I told my friends that if this happens I would want to taste it.

I am still hearing about it...and I think I will hear about for a looong time.

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Floey 5 points 3 years ago

I wish people would be willing to put off eating all meat until we have lab grown stuff, like how most people are willing to put off eating human meat until we have lab grown stuff.

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Anticorp 4 points 3 years ago

Daaang girl, you disgusting!

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shastaxc 4 points 3 years ago

Eat yourself for only $500

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CitizenKong 4 points 3 years ago

Can you labgrow your own body's meat? That would be more like chewing fingernails, swallowing your own blood or nibbling the occasional piece of skin, right?

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TheMightyCanuck 3 points 3 years ago

Auto-cannibalism is different than just normal cannibalism

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YourHuckleberry 4 points 3 years ago

MeBurger!

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idunnololz 5 points 3 years ago

Me-gan

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GrammatonCleric 3 points 3 years ago

Bro, move. I need to use the shower.

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Aggravationstation 3 points 3 years ago

100% I can imagine it becoming a fad for couples to eat lab grown versions of each other's genitals.

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DestroyerOfWorlds 3 points 3 years ago

I would absolutely eat my beautiful calf muscle, dry rub

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Plibbert 3 points 3 years ago

Yummy

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idunnololz 2 points 3 years ago

I am what I eat.

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ogwillikers 2 points 3 years ago

That reminded me of this old thing.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu_(novelty_item)

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Maajmaaj 2 points 3 years ago
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FlickOfTheBean 2 points 3 years ago

Enjoy your side of kuru! It's the gift that waits to give, but once it starts, it never stops!

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Maajmaaj 6 points 3 years ago
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FlickOfTheBean 4 points 3 years ago

I mean, it's probably less likely to happen, but it is a prison disease, which means it can kind of just suddenly happen if a protein folds the wrong way (if I'm not misreading the internet wrong about it)

Though it seems like you're relatively safe if you stay away from brain tissue, so I guess you're probably fine.

Still, I'll just ask you what it tastes like before I'd try it myself haha

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Johnmannesca 1 point 3 years ago

Finally, I can try my own liver with faba beans and a nice chianti

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fubo 1 point 3 years ago

If you currently want to avoid committing murder, would you take a pill that would cause you to want to commit murder?

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ZiemekZ 1 point 3 years ago

Eating ass, but now literally

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MooseBoys 1 point 3 years ago

Food of the Gods by Arthur C Clarke

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darcy -4 points 3 years ago

I HATE FAKE MEAT!

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OsrsNeedsF2P 1 point 3 years ago

You ever had lab grown meat?

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darcy 0 points 3 years ago

no. i will never

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