• shiveyarbles@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    I’m not exactly sure, but I think we can combine pork growing vats and AI to create a new species.

  • Lugh@futurology.todayOPM
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    8 months ago

    Good news for pigs. I’ll be delighted to see factory farming disappear and be replaced by tech like this.

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      8 months ago

      Except for the pigs raised for stem cells? Which I think somehow is an even more distopian concept… Maybe just a different flavour.

      Note: I am actually in the comments looking for the answer to my question “how many stem cells?”. Like per lb or whatever… What’s the ratio?

      • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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        8 months ago

        The article answers your question

        It involves nothing more than pulling a single cell once from a pig without causing harm.

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          8 months ago

          Thank you. I read the article, I swear, before posting. (Literally stopped what I was typing after I read my own statement “looking in the comments”) Not sure how I missed that.

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Sausage seems like the perfect entry point for this technology. People don’t really care what goes in them as long as it tastes good. It’s also a lot more forgiving from a texture perspective. It would even be feasible to expand to more exotic sausages like pheasant or alligator.