Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as the FDA Greenlights

Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by KempyKolibri on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @04:11AM (#44949427)

What do you mean by “part of the circle of life”? I’m not sure why that would be a compelling reason to be ok with something either way?

For most of human history eating meat riddled with maggots was part of the circle of life, is it weird to be grossed out by eating meat riddled with maggots?

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Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by bowmessage on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @11:30AM (#44952732)

Spoiled meat that needs to be tossed != live fish that needs to be cooked.

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Re:Lab-Grown Salmon Hits the Menu at an Oregon Restaurant as... by KempyKolibri on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @01:15PM (#44953863)

What’s the practical difference as far as the appeal to nature argument you’re making goes? Humans lived for thousands of years on maggot-riddled meat, same as they did on parasite-riddled salmon.

Surely if it was good enough for us to live on back then, it’s part of the circle of life and should be totally fine. Right?

If one’s no longer acceptable because we don’t do it any more, then surely if lab meat gets established then we’ll look back at that parasite-riddled salmon with the same revulsion as we do the maggots.

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