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With lab grown meat we could see the advent of ethical cannibalism. (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by Hobbes@startrek.website to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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[–] Paaliaq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Arthur C Clark's 1964 short story "Food of the Gods" a synthetic- meat company came out with a very tasty and great-selling product. Turns out it's cultured human tissue.

[–] Especially_the_lies@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

There's also the film Soylent Green (1973), though that isn't lab-grown human tissue