• @A_Toasty_Strudel
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      221 year ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year 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.

    • lalo
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      71 year 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!

    • @soupspoon
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      61 year 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

  • @coffeeguy
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    451 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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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
  • @xantoxis
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    381 year ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    361 year ago

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

    • @Tangent5280
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      101 year ago

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

    • @Buddahriffic
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      31 year 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.

    • @Dicska
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      141 year ago

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

      • @Noodle07
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        21 year ago

        I, too, love my fellow humans

    • @realaether
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      41 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year 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.

      • @motsu
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        61 year 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

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    171 year 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?

    • @small44
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      71 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year 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?

  • @0Empty0
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    121 year ago

    This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

  • ƊƲƘЄƬӇƠƦƖƠƝ
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    111 year 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?

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year 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.

  • @Tylerdurdon
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    81 year ago

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