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[–] TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's not as fun without the suffering.

[–] A_Toasty_Strudel@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like reverse lobsters. You gotta be able to taste the fear. 🀌

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[–] lalo@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, our source cells are from the most depressed individuals we could find. And our workers are the poorest immigrant pre-teens to ensure maximum suffering.

Don't forget to try our human tiddy sour cream, it's sourced from the same pre-teens!

[–] soupspoon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

So far, there's still suffering in lots of convoluted, drawn-out, disturbing ways : ( hoping they can quickly advance technology past the current methods

[–] coffeeguy@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With every passing day I come to regret more and more my ability to read.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You want some of this? You want to really eat this? Hit the button and subscribe, and you'll get monthly shipments of meat grown from various parts of my body!

  • Belly: $50
  • Thighs: $60
  • Armpit: $70
  • Lips: $90
  • Breasts: $110
  • Dat ass: $150
  • Anus: $200
  • Puss: $300
[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Thighs would be easily the tastiest part, should be more expensive imo

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Regular cannibalism is ethical, it just depends on who you eat

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I could see people from onlyfans auctioning their meats. It's the only natural progression of lab-grown meat industry.

[–] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I hate that you're right about this

[–] cjf@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The dildo industry in general is gonna be filled with even more realism.

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[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy fucking hell, that's a non-chalant way to express a horror movie setting. It sounds like something out of Hellraiser.

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Hellraiser 10: The Fundraiser

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[–] fixmycode@feddit.cl 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

we've never breed humans selectively for tastiness

[–] tastysnacks@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Look for the ones that drink a lot of beer. It'll be like Kobe beef but human.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the Morlocks have entered the chat

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems like a real risk for the introduction of prion diseases.

[–] Ottopus@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

But you could knock out the prion protein gene in the cell lines you use for meat production. It’s not needed for cell survival as far as I know.

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[–] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"cannibal" is a derogatory term. Nowadays we prefer to be called gourmetally challenged.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Vegetarianism: the custom of eating vegetables. So I guess we are witnessing the birth of humanitarianism.

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[–] NRDK@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Eat a steak made of the cells of your favourit celebrity.

[–] unalkalkan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

future billion dollar idea right there

[–] unalkalkan@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] VinnieFarsheds@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Including the microplasics

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Now with really inserts!

[–] stringere@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Literally eat the rich.

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, that reminded me of the story of "Perfume" again.

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[–] Duranie@lemmy.film 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can see someone submitting a DNA sample to Ancestry and watching the horror/drama unfold.

What would be worse - finding out the sample came from a missing person, or someone who never offered the donation?

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemdro.id 5 points 1 year ago

This was the Mormon agenda all along.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is it really cannibalism if the meat wasn't actually from a person? πŸ€”

[–] small44@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

They say you are what you eat, so you eat what you are. Therefore you are a cannibal

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[–] 0Empty0@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is the next Black Mirror episode for sure

[–] dukethorion@lemmy.one 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would we eat lab-grown human when there are so many delicious animals to be had?

Secondly, A1, Heinz 57 or Lawry's?

[–] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Just s & p, that's for me

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

A1 for steak, 57 for burgers, only used the Lawrys marinade but now I gotta try some of the sauce.

Agreed though, why go for long pork when pork pork is already so tasty?

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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.

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

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

'The Ophiuchi Hotline,' by John Varley. A food engineer is sentenced to death after the authorities discover that her 'banana meat' tree has human DNA. Great read.

Reminds me a bit of the plot the movie Antiviral but with meat instead of illnesses

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could I grow my own meat and then tell people to eat me?

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[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

We could see the advent of ethical and unharmful autophagia

[–] barnsbauer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically, I guess.

Unfortunately, we still seem to be very far away from it replacing our usual way of growing meat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0zCf4Yup34

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I told my friends that if this happens I would want to taste it.

I am still hearing about it...and I think I will hear about for a looong time.

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