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[2022] The idea is simply genius, no way to compare the product to the real thing, even the few that actually may have tasted tiger or lion meat, how often did
by jaclaz 4y ago
[2022]
The idea is simply genius, no way to compare the product to the real thing, even the few that actually may have tasted tiger or lion meat, how often did they eat it, maybe once in their lifetime.
Next step could be synthetic meat of extincted animals, even more failproof.
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- galangalalgol 4y agoI want a me-burger. Small jab once, then they send me frozen ground me on some interval.
- version_five 4y agoHave you heard of prions? There's an evolutionary reason why your idea is super creepy
- galangalalgol 4y agoThey are exclusively in nervous tissue right? I'm assuming they are only growing skeletal muscle, perhaps with some adipose cells as well?
- jwestbury 4y agoNot sure about kuru specifically, but other prion diseases can be acquired through tainted meat, e.g. BSE.
- galangalalgol 4y agoWell normally all skeletal muscle contains nerves which might have at least some of the proteins that could flip. But in this case you wouldn't want the muscle to activate, it is like the purest kobe veal kept in a box so that it's muscles never even had to work once. I have often joked engineer meat is like kobe veal, kept in a box and fed nothing but beer. Maybe soon I can test my theory.
- throwawaymaths 4y agoNope. In fact the highest concentration of prions is in your tongue.
- jwestbury 4y agoPrions are a risk when eating meat in general. BSE (mad cow) can be transmitted to humans, and there's some limited laboratory evidence that scrapie can be transmitted cross-species, as well. Though you do raise an interesting though -- are prions going to be more or less likely (or the same) in cultured meat?
- SamBam 4y agoPrions are spread by eating (or otherwise becoming infected with) prions, not by eating something that is you, or is similar to you. There's no reason why a lab-grown me-burger would have prions in it. Or, at least, it's no more likely than a lab-grown beef burger spontaneously developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
- DrThunder 4y agoYou could cut small pieces off yourself now and fry them up. They'll regrow so what's the difference? If that bothers you, maybe you ought to reconsider what you're saying?
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago> Next step could be synthetic meat of extincted animals, It has been suggested before (by cstross I think) that the next step is celebrity endorsements. With their cells. There must be someone that you think of as "tasty". And it won't harm them, in fact they'll get paid when you buy.
- jaclaz 4y agoI don't know, probably that would taste like chicken ;): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastes_like_chicken https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastes_like_chicken
- waste_monk 4y agoI'm sure there would be plenty of folk who would love to chow down on a Taylor Swift steak, or a Chris Hemsworth burger. Probably decent money to be made, if you can get the celebrities to agree to it. I wonder if this would act as a "harm reduction" mechanism for celebrity-obsessed weirdos who would otherwise stalk or attempt to harm them to feel close to them, or if it would actually encourage bad behaviour...