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

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It's not as fun without the suffering.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

I use all parts of the animal :)

Terrifying

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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?

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

This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

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

Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry's?

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?

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.

'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.

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

We could see the advent of ethical and unharmful autophagia

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.

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.

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?

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

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