• @[email protected]
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        210 months 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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      710 months 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!

    • @[email protected]
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      610 months 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

    • @[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
  • @[email protected]
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    3510 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      910 months ago

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

    • @potoo22
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      410 months ago

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

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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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      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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        610 months 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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      610 months 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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    1610 months 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?

    • @[email protected]
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      310 months 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?

  • ƊƲƘЄƬӇƠƦƖƠƝ
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    1110 months 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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    1010 months 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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      910 months ago

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

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    810 months 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.