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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by Guest9081239812 on Monday November 28, 2022 @01:49PM (#33777774)
What about something like lab diamonds? You can give nature billions of years to "do it's thing" or we can produce the same result in a lab in a matter of weeks without any suffering and at a fraction of the cost. Synthetic processes can be quite efficient and it sounds like you're discarding them completely which is a little shortsighted.
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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by abfan1127 on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:14PM (#33778133)
I'd argue synthetic diamonds and synthetic "life" are pretty different. We also don't eat diamonds.
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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by phpisthebest on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:35PM (#33778438)
Creating Lab meat is in no way creating synthetic "life", it is more akin to synthetic diamonds than synthetic life
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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by toasteros on Monday November 28, 2022 @02:22PM (#33778240)
No, but we send people down into deep pits to dig them up with very little regard for their wellbeing.

There's an amount of suffering "required" for the production of both of these things. A diamond itself is not screaming in agony as we prepare it for use, but there's a human cost involved.

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by ben_w on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:13PM (#33779755)
What about lab grown ice, then? When that was new, people complained it didn't have the same healthy green[0] color as the natural stuff.

[0] i.e. from the algae trapped in it when it formed

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Re:Lab-Grown Meat Is Safe to Eat, FDA Says by midoridensha on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:48PM (#33783084)
Synthetic diamonds are also objectively superior to natural ones.
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