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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by stcredzero on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:20PM (#16056847)
Would you eat steaks made from cultured human cells? It would taste like pork and have exactly the nutrients humans need.
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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by llukas on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:23PM (#16056867)
Also all the pathogens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by stcredzero on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @07:11PM (#16057173)
We'd leave out the nerve cells, of course.
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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by on_and_off on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @06:50PM (#16057054)
Well, as far as ethics go .. I am not hurting anybody or anything if I eat meat cultured from cells.

So the objection would be because it is a cultural taboo (and as others have mentioned, would it be safe ?) .

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Re:SuperMeat raises $3M for lab-grown chicken by King-Aaron on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @12:54AM (#16058825)
I don't see the need to make the distinction - if you could readily grow animal cells for food, why even consider eating your own?

Morally speaking, yeah sure. Practically speaking, no?

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