I'm picturing the menu at a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gala event in 10 years
I bet human doesn’t even taste good. I’d rather eat cloned dolphin or mammoth or something actually rare.
If cloned human meat becomes acceptable then inevitably a black market for real human meat will develop since it'll be more "authentic" than the cloned stuff.
Yeah maybe, but that's mostly culturally. I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with it.
I think it depends on method, if its just sheets of cloned muscle yeah sure whatever. If its cheaper to clone entire people instead of just tissue though...
I think vat grown human meat won't give you prions, but don't quote me
Aren't prions in the brains, or do I have that completely wrong?
I just know that the prions are the material basis for why cannibalism is such a taboo
In pop culture, prions/kuru have essentially become a more scientific way to incorporate old myths about ghouls into more realistic settings
Cowards.
The real question is “when can we have vat grown human genitalia sex toys?”
Wouldn't those, uhh... rot? Unless they'd also have miniaturised organs to keep them alive, which would be a whole other horror unto itself
assuming you've got nanobots figured out you could have a system whereby nutrients are supplied by a semi-permeable membrane based docking station (hawt) that you could take your Living Dong off for short use sessions. Like charging a phone.
Yeahhh but the bit where it happens follows one of them getting a bit too exposed to human culture and deciding they want to be 'captain,' and sticking on a lavish feast of cloned human meat. If I recall the others on board the GSV are all a bit 'ha ha, what the fuck?' But go along with it in the spirit of exploration.
Early lab meat is going to have weird texture problems because it's missing all the details that come from how a specific muscle connects to ligaments and the circulatory system and whatever. Solving this will be hard and require more fundamental research. Swapping what animal the cells technically come from will be pretty easy. So as soon as lab meat is viable, expect businesses to suit their need to expand by exhausting all the animals they can market. And the list of animals people have heard of is pretty short, so expect human pretty quick.
