Also I want to hear from you, is it ethical and why?

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      11 months ago

      Then you have your starter meat and can start the age old tradition of passing it down from generation to generation so that they can keep making You Steaks forever.

      “My great-great grandpa/ma sure is delicious!”

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    I would be worried about disease first, but if it’s your own cells maybe there’s less chance? Prions are terrifying

    My second question would be taste

    If there’s no disease and it tastes good then fuck yeah all in

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      Theoretically, if you don’t consume any of spine or nervous system, you should be good.

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      Unless you already have prions from CJD you can’t catch Kuru by eating yourself. You have to actually eat someone who already has prions to catch it. Even then you have to eat nervous system tissue to be at a significant risk.

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      Wait. Isnt this infinite food? Cut off 1cm2 of skin, grow a steak, and ‘free’ dinner? Lets actually read thw article.

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        You would have to “feed” it nutrition while it grows into the steak, so not infinite and not free unfortunately

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    I mean you have to buy it on your own accord, culture your own cells, and then successfully cook and eat them. As long as you aren’t stealing other people’s cells to eat them without their consent it seems more ethical than the current meat industry.

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      But it’s still cannibalism, yeah? If someone consented to be eaten before they died or even wished for it, would you be OK with eating them?

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        This is unironically one of my favourite questions to ask new friends. I’ve gotten a variety of answers, but my own response has always been yes, if the person was healthy and had clearly consented.

        In my opinion, cannibalism is bad for two main reasons, 1) it can be unsafe if the person was ill, the meat has spoiled, or if it’s done too often (this has been studied in cannibalistic rituals) and 2) it’s unethical if the person doesn’t consent to it.

        Eating animal meat is non consensual and there can be diseases in there too - many people have died from it. Just because it’s more socially acceptable, I don’t really see it as an ethically better decision.

        I would 100% at least try my own home grown meat cells.

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          Damn, I love your response, even though I don’t know of I agree! Are you Vegan?

          I personally see it as No, because I see us humans as special. Speaking as an atheist, end of day, we are special as humans.

          I eat meat, I try to limit it to the ethically harvested. Hunted, family farm grown, it even tastes the best, any concerns aside. But eating a person is WRONG, consent or no.

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            I’m not vegan or vegetarian anymore because I have a lot of allergies that prevent me from eating plant based anything. But I also try to limit it to locally and ethically harvested when I do eat meat.

            I identify as agnostic and definitely don’t believe that any one living being is better or more special than the others (except maybe cats).

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            It’s interesting that you ask if they are vegan, as if understanding the ethical problems of eating meat would only be valid if you are also strictly vegan.

            You evidently understand it is not completely ethically correct to eat animals in all circumstances, as you say you only eat ethically harvested meat. But you also say you believe humans to be special as a reason to eat animals, so why not eat all animals under all circumstances?

            The main point though, why would it still be wrong to eat human meat if lab grown and consensual?

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            Why is it wrong though? And why/how are people special? You didn’t provide any reasoning to either.

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        We have to draw some sort of line here though. Will this give you prions? Does this end the person’s life like traditional cannibalism usually does? Theres a lot to unpack in these tiny man steaks. I’d still rather people be growing their own meat at home in a petri dish than having animals locked in cages for eternity.

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          In the current hypothetical:

          1. It’s screened, you can’t legally sell prion meat

          2. It’s taken nonlethally as a sample from a consenting human, possibly you

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        So, if it were the original cells, then it would be autocannibalism, since these are cloned cells (from what I gather) it’s technically not the same thing. [Edit: Personally, it’s a bit of a tossup in my mind. I don’t think it’s unethical, but it’s still a weird thing]

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          Yeah, I’m also unsure how I feel about it, I asked because it’s such a strange thing to think about

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      As long as you aren’t stealing other people’s cells to eat them without their consent it seems more ethical than the current meat industry.

      Even if you did, while super weird as long as you didn’t get the cells through violence it’s probably still more ethical than the meat industry.

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      stealing other people’s cells to eat them

      This will become a sex thing for sure

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      nonconsensual meat grown from samples illicitly taken against someone’s will.

      Meat is already produced without consent and much more violently then taking samples.

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            I’d agree that taking the sample is unethical, but if you’re growing the steak from a sample someone else got or fucking it the ethical lines get really blurry.

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              Idk, I don’t think they’re that blurry if we compare them to similar “conundrums” in other unethical circumstances.

              Like, would you think the same of someone owning child porn? They don’t distribute it, they don’t film the children themselves, they just own the recordings. The law says they’re a criminal, but it seems like a similar ethical conundrum - no? (To be clear, I think eating meat sourced from someone who did not consent is wrong. I hope that says enough about how I feel about CP.)

              How about owning the schematics for a ghost gun? You haven’t printed it, you haven’t distributed the schematic - you just own the schematic (and, for the purpose of the example, a 3d printer capable of printing the parts needed).

              Seems like the answer is “it’s unethical”. Gonna need a third party to weigh in.

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          11 months ago

          You aren’t seeing the big picture here…hear me out:

          TRUMP STEAKS, but the real deal this time!!!

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    I bet I taste delicious!

    This is ethical despite it walking the line of taboo. It hurts no one, and if the tissue sample can be extracted at home without causing damage to the donor I see no issue with it.

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    Of course it’s ethical, unless I’m seriously misunderstanding something you literally have to make the decision to buy it and then partake in it.

    I guess you can use it unethically but by default intended usage it’s fine

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    Haha I’ve been saying for fucking years that boutique lab growing meat outlets will pop up selling exotic animal meats and celebrity human meat. We are getting close to that future

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    Isn’t cannibalism a good way to get prion based diseases? Or is that only if you eat other people

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    Fuck, I’ve always wanted to eat human meat anyway. I’d kill for a sample like this. I don’t care about morals here. I’m a vegetarian. I just want to know. If my buddy was like “ayy we’re eating Dan from accounting’s arm tonight” I’d be there with no questions asked. The police can sort it out.