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If lab grown meat takes off there's no reason in principle for why cattle, chickens and pigs couldn't be replaced by say the blue whale, dodo and black rhino.
by avar 4y ago
If lab grown meat takes off there's no reason in principle for why cattle, chickens and pigs couldn't be replaced by say the blue whale, dodo and black rhino.
We might even find human meat at the supermarket. If all you need is a small cell culture to bootstrap most or all current ethical, conservation and disease concerns will go out the window.
- flangola7 4y agoWho says it only has to be a real animal? Give me Rapirin Corto(TM) - the naturally spicy fruity sirloin!
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoTaco Bell chubacabra tacos.
- thefounder 4y agoI don't see many people rushing to eat lab grown meat unless it's signifiantly cheaper(i.e cheaper than what's used in junk food "restaurants").
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoAnd I don't even think people are the primary market, but large industry; they're all about min/maxing, and don't care where the meat that goes into e.g. chicken nuggets or sausages comes from.
- eru 4y ago> [...] couldn't be replaced by say the blue whale, dodo and black rhino. Or completely novel creations. > We might even find human meat at the supermarket. If all you need is a small cell culture to bootstrap most or all current ethical, conservation and disease concerns will go out the window. Spoiler: Project Hail Mary brings up the concept briefly. Interesting novel otherwise, too.
- hnbad 4y agoI seem to recall a short story about a future in which you can order not just human meat but your own meat and even the meat of celebrities. It doesn't seem entirely implausible if you consider porn performers already lending their "likeness" to sex toys. You or I might find the idea revolting but there is absolutely a market for "eating your favorite celebrity". Alternatively in such a future one might make the ethical argument that "your own meat" is the only meat you can ethically consume because it does not require anyone else's consent (which might be coerced).