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I have little background about the cultured meat, and this link made me curious: wouldn't cancer cells be good candidate cells for creating this type of meat?
by nemonemo 9y ago
I have little background about the cultured meat, and this link made me curious: wouldn't cancer cells be good candidate cells for creating this type of meat?
- wpovell 9y agoI also have little background, but I'd imagine the type of meat that cancer cells create is not the same as the type that tastes good.
- madez 9y agoDo you have any evidence why cancer shouldn't taste good?
- gruez 9y ago"good" steak, for instance is marbled. i'm not sure how you can get that with uncontrolled growth of one type of tissue. best case scenario you grow a huge chunk of cancerous muscle, and grind it with fat to make ground beef.
- deepnotderp 9y agoBut suppose I don't care about fat, in fact I want my meat to be as lean as possible.
- gruez 9y agoi'm not sure what the point of that is. not sure about everyone else, but the main motivation for eating meat is that it tastes good. without fat, 100% muscle would be very dry/tough. you might as well eat tofu.
- deepnotderp 9y ago> you might as well eat tofu. I guess this is a bad time to say I love tofu? I'm more concerned whether or not it's technologically possible without health risks.
- Gatsky 9y agoTumours are typically poorly organised tissues with areas of dead cells (necrosis) and very fibrous reactions from surrounding tissue (desmoplastic reaction). A steak made out of a large tumour would look patchy, and have areas of cheesy looking dead tissue that will belch yellow goo when you touch it. It will also be very chewy. Additionally, most cancers develop in tissues that are the equivalent of the gizzards, whereas most human meat consumption is muscle tissue.
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