Laboratory-grown meat is cool because we would not need to farm animals for our food anymore.
But ... would you be comfortable eating meat if it has been grown from a culture of YOUR OWN BODY CELLS????
@soundwave You sure it's human body cells?
@trinsec
Well, if it was grown from my body then yes, it would be human body cells.
But since I try not to assume anything, in your case, I suppose only you would know if meat cultured from your own body cells would be human body cells.
Unless, of course, we're both stuck in a world like in Philip K. Dick's "Autofac" [recently - Episode 8 of Electric Dreams (2017 TV series)]
@soundwave I mean, lab grown meat for human consumption, I'd think they use non-human cultures for it.
@trinsec
Right. Yes I think everyone would be assuming that whatever they're growing right now in labs is not human cells.
I'm just saying ... hypothetically ... eg. if it turns out that the most nutritious meat was human meat
and to avoid the whole cannibalism philosophical quandry
would you allow a lab to grow some of your own cells
and eat that as your primary source of protein?
@soundwave Oh, so this is more like a philosophical pondering.
Good question, never quite thought about that. If it's good for us, then why not. Likely it's been extremely abstractized by that point. But I thought it's defacto not good for us to eat our own species-related stuff, so that'll have to be disproven greatly.
Oh. Has science said that cannibal food is not healthy? I didn't know that. But then I wonder what they really meant, because eg. many vegetarians often say that eating any meat is unhealthy, and in fact they are more or less right, so .....
I know a carnivorous diet is *definitely* bad for us
So maybe they meant that carnivorous cannibalism is unhealthy
but maybe it's a fine source of protein as part of a balanced diet
in which case, I would eat meat made from a culture of my own cells, if it was healthy
I just wonder how many other people would do that too
@soundwave I don't remember specifics. Eating your own kind is not exactly healthy, but I don't recall if it's specific parts of body (e.g. the brain, that's definitely not good for you) or all of it.
But if it's just specific parts that'd be bad for you, and lab grown meat with your own cells is proven to be pretty nutritious and healthy, then I'm not really seeing a huge issue. I mean, it's just a bunch of cells. It's very abstract. You're not going to see a human there. All you see is a piece of meat.
I think it's kinda the same kind of psychological trick that many people experience upon seeing meat in the supermarket. They just don't associate it with the animals anymore, or not as strongly, because that is just a piece of meat on display.
So if marketed right, a lot of people could probably switch over easily. ;) That is, if it's not intervening with their ethics. Although, is it more ethical to eat animal meat instead of your own meat? Another thing to ponder about!