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[โ€“] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not as fun without the suffering.

[โ€“] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like reverse lobsters. You gotta be able to taste the fear. ๐ŸคŒ

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[โ€“] lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 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!

[โ€“] coffeeguy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] bastion@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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
[โ€“] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[โ€“] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I hate that you're right about this

[โ€“] cjf@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[โ€“] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] rockerface@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Hellraiser 10: The Fundraiser

[โ€“] potoo22@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

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

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[โ€“] fixmycode@feddit.cl 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we've never breed humans selectively for tastiness

[โ€“] tastysnacks@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the Morlocks have entered the chat

[โ€“] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Dicska@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] realaether@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] hglman@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[โ€“] ForgetPrimacy@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] motsu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 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

[โ€“] Ottopus@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

But you could knock out the prion protein gene in the cell lines you use for meat production. Itโ€™s not needed for cell survival as far as I know.

[โ€“] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 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 animalโ€™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.

[โ€“] NRDK@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] unalkalkan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

future billion dollar idea right there

[โ€“] squaresinger@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

And the film Antiviral

[โ€“] Duranie@lemmy.film 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago

This was the Mormon agenda all along.

[โ€“] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it really cannibalism if the meat wasn't actually from a person? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] small44@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] editilly@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[โ€“] 56_@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

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

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[โ€“] Paaliaq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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

[โ€“] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

[โ€“] dukethorion@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[โ€“] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Just s & p, that's for me

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[โ€“] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

๐Ÿคข๐Ÿคฎ

[โ€“] DrQuint@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

We could see the advent of ethical and unharmful autophagia

[โ€“] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 points 1 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.

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

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Daaang girl, you disgusting!

[โ€“] YourHuckleberry@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] XTornado@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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