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
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
93 Comments
TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world · 61 pts · 3y
It's not as fun without the suffering.
A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 3y
It's like reverse lobsters. You gotta be able to taste the fear. 🤌
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3y
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@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 3y
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@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
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@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 3y
With every passing day I come to regret more and more my ability to read.
bastion@feddit.nl · 15 pts · 3y
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!
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 3y
Thighs would be easily the tastiest part, should be more expensive imo
xantoxis@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 3y
Regular cannibalism is ethical, it just depends on who you eat
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 4 pts · 3y
Sounds like it’s a personal choice.
xantoxis@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
not for the person I'm eating, but yeah
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I use all parts of the animal :)
hglman@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 3y
Prion disease is for you!
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org · 4 pts · 3y
Terrifying
bastion@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 3y
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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · -1 pts · 3y
eh, tofu and seitan has been a thing in asia since time immemorial
oldGregg@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y
Tofu and seitan isn't meat
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Then I eat it
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 2 pts · 3y
Name checks out?
redcalcium@lemmy.institute · 36 pts · 3y
I could see people from onlyfans auctioning their meats. It's the only natural progression of lab-grown meat industry.
FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
I hate that you're right about this
cjf@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 3y
The dildo industry in general is gonna be filled with even more realism.
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social · 2 pts · 3y
Clone a Willie will be a much different product.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
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 · 7 pts · 3y
Hellraiser 10: The Fundraiser
potoo22@programming.dev · 4 pts · 3y
That's fucked up... (I wonder how much money I can get for my meat)
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
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.
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee · 29 pts · 3y
"cannibal" is a derogatory term. Nowadays we prefer to be called gourmetally challenged.
Dicska@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
Vegetarianism: the custom of eating vegetables. So I guess we are witnessing the birth of humanitarianism.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I, too, love my fellow humans
realaether@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
"Gourmetally free", surely, without the oppression of the squeamish crowds?
fixmycode@feddit.cl · 27 pts · 3y
we've never breed humans selectively for tastiness
tastysnacks@programming.dev · 11 pts · 3y
Look for the ones that drink a lot of beer. It'll be like Kobe beef but human.
No_Eponym@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 3y
the Morlocks have entered the chat
hglman@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 3y
Seems like a real risk for the introduction of prion diseases.
ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml · 11 pts · 3y
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@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
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
Ottopus@feddit.de · 6 pts · 3y
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.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 3y
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.
NRDK@lemmy.ml · 23 pts · 3y
Eat a steak made of the cells of your favourit celebrity.
unalkalkan@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y
future billion dollar idea right there
unalkalkan@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Eat The Kardashians
VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Including the microplasics
XTornado@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
Now with really inserts!
stringere@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Literally eat the rich.
squaresinger@feddit.de · 5 pts · 3y
Thanks, that reminded me of the story of "Perfume" again.
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
And the film Antiviral
Duranie@lemmy.film · 17 pts · 3y
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?
BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id · 6 pts · 3y
This was the Mormon agenda all along.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 16 pts · 3y
Is it really cannibalism if the meat wasn't actually from a person? 🤔
small44@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
They say you are what you eat, so you eat what you are. Therefore you are a cannibal
editilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 3y
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?
56_@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 3y
The emoji letters are just a display name. The actual username, which you log in with, uses normal characters.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 3 pts · 3y
It's just the display name. Usernames can't use special characters.
0Empty0@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure
dukethorion@lemmy.one · 11 pts · 3y
Why would we eat lab-grown human when there are so many delicious animals to be had?
Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry's?
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
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 · 6 pts · 3y
Just s & p, that's for me
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 3y
Novelty? Not wanting to talk to your grandkids?
Paaliaq@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 3y
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.
Especially_the_lies@startrek.website · 9 pts · 3y
There's also the film Soylent Green (1973), though that isn't lab-grown human tissue
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Could I grow my own meat and then tell people to eat me?
SnowdenHeroOfOurTime@unilem.org · 4 pts · 3y
🤢🤮
Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
'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.
CorrodedCranium@leminal.space · 7 pts · 3y
Reminds me a bit of the plot the movie Antiviral but with meat instead of illnesses
DrQuint@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 3y
We could see the advent of ethical and unharmful autophagia
barnsbauer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
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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XTornado@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
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.
Floey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
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.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
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?
TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
Auto-cannibalism is different than just normal cannibalism
shastaxc@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Eat yourself for only $500
Anticorp@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3y
Daaang girl, you disgusting!
YourHuckleberry@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
MeBurger!
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Me-gan
Plibbert@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3y
Yummy
Aggravationstation@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
100% I can imagine it becoming a fad for couples to eat lab grown versions of each other's genitals.
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Bro, move. I need to use the shower.
DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3y
I would absolutely eat my beautiful calf muscle, dry rub
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
I am what I eat.
Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3y
FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Enjoy your side of kuru! It's the gift that waits to give, but once it starts, it never stops!
Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y
FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
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
ogwillikers@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
That reminded me of this old thing.
wikipedia.org/wiki/Hufu_(novelty_item)
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Finally, I can try my own liver with faba beans and a nice chianti
MooseBoys@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Food of the Gods by Arthur C Clarke
fubo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
If you currently want to avoid committing murder, would you take a pill that would cause you to want to commit murder?
ZiemekZ@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Eating ass, but now literally
nnic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
There was a spoof documentary in the UK a few weeks ago about this! https://youtu.be/_c4mUH-p2Fg
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darcy@sh.itjust.works · -4 pts · 3y
I HATE FAKE MEAT!
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
You ever had lab grown meat?
darcy@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 3y
no. i will never