The current issue is that we'll run out of climate before any of this nonsense is viable, so everyone will have to be vegan (or cannibal, if you insist) because mass animal agriculture will become untenable.
My main hangup about it is the body-horror-scifi-nightmare of creating lifeless flesh for consumption instead of just making it easier to not eat flesh.
also you should probably get over the hangup... its not unlikely that this tech will open up huge inroads for personalized medical science. think of the possibilities: you take a blood sample from a cancer patient and then you grow an organ based on their real dna. you can transplant a new organ in, or even more likely, test drugs on the organ to determine the efficacy against a particular kind of cancer. repeat and cancer as a riddle has become much easier to solve.
the possibilities are really endless for this sort of thing and will be crucial for treating many diseases and extending human life. cultured meat as a biproduct is just another way to contribute to the research.
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also they could make fat cells pretty easy and give me big ol fat tiddies
The current issue is that we'll run out of climate before any of this nonsense is viable, so everyone will have to be vegan (or cannibal, if you insist) because mass animal agriculture will become untenable.
My main hangup about it is the body-horror-scifi-nightmare of creating lifeless flesh for consumption instead of just making it easier to not eat flesh.
also you should probably get over the hangup... its not unlikely that this tech will open up huge inroads for personalized medical science. think of the possibilities: you take a blood sample from a cancer patient and then you grow an organ based on their real dna. you can transplant a new organ in, or even more likely, test drugs on the organ to determine the efficacy against a particular kind of cancer. repeat and cancer as a riddle has become much easier to solve.
the possibilities are really endless for this sort of thing and will be crucial for treating many diseases and extending human life. cultured meat as a biproduct is just another way to contribute to the research.
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also they could make fat cells pretty easy and give me big ol fat tiddies
nothing else is going to happen faster. unless youre in charge of the nuclear codes and we're ready to :monke-return: