Lab grown meat already exists. The same processes could easily make human meat without harming the human.

I’m fairly certain this will at some point lead to a social media fad of people trying, well, people. It seems like every possible stupid action has already been turned into one at this point https://eu.app.com/story/news/world/2024/03/07/what-is-tiktok-chroming-trend/72879475007/

Onlyfans creators already sell stuff like toenail clippings and bathwater https://kotaku.com/belle-delphine-onlyfans-paypal-pornhub-bath-water-1851491916

Wouldn’t be difficult to imagine people buying meat made of their favourite creator. What they do with it is between them and their god.

“Do you really want to eat Bella Thorne’s ass? Well, for just $19.99 you can fry up a small part of it!”

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    The problem is that the lab-meat probably wouldn’t taste the same as the human-meat. I’m reasonably confident that the (minimum) 18 years of living the OF person would have to do impacts and changes the quality and taste of flesh.

    It’s possible that the lab-meat would taste like the OF person did when they were a baby… but that opens a whole new door of moral and ethical and legal issues.

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    There will no doubt be a line of the wealthiest people selling their sole for a profit.

    I don’t think this is what was implied when we said to “eat the rich”, though. Or “bootlicker” and “ass kisser”.

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    Zuckerberg will do a video of him smoking some thot’s ass meat. With Sweet Baby Ray’s, of course.

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    So you kind of miss the obvious long term application in this scenario: buy a totally realistic dildo clone of my penis, buy a clone of my boobs etc. A step beyond just meat but the more realistic application of this technology in the sex world.

    I think they’ll be eating their favourite onlyfans creators, just not in the way you’re suggesting.

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    Maybe someone who understands science way better than me can answer this, but would it be possible to grow a whole human body using the meat growing process? If so, you could buy a living sex doll of your favourite celebrity.

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        No, that isn’t true at all.

        I’d be totally happy if the “clone” was dead or completely non-sentient. Happier in fact…

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      Currently not. Lab grown meat is a more or less homogeneous mass of muscle fiber. A few years we could only make what is essentially minced meat, now we’re getting closer to entire steaks. Still far away from growing specific muscle groups, organs, bones and skin.

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          BONK

          (You are aware that lab-grown meat is still meat and not an independent organism, right? It’s essentially dead and would rot within hours if kept at room temperature)

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            Yea. Freeze it, thaw it, microwave it, “use” it, dispose of it.

            I’m not actually planning on doing any of that, just talking about what is and isn’t theoretically possible.

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        I mean i theory we can clone mammals, the problem is it would take a long while for your “buddy” to grow up to a usable size

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          The problem with cloning would also be that a clone of a human is a human with all rights and limitations, the “buddy” would be a slave.

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              Performing a lobotomy to a human sounds highly illegal in itself, but as far as I know are lobotomized humans still humans with all human rights.

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                Well, that’s fair enough, but i think we already abandoned legality of the whole operation at the “growing entire human body” part

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    I’d eat a Bell Delphine burger. I wouldn’t spend my own money on it, but I feel like that’d make for a fun story.

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      I’m pretty sure cannibalism is already legal in the United States. The problem is you can’t legally acquire human meat.

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        Where are the infectious prions coming from if it is lab grown meat? There should be the same risks with any other lab grown meat then, because prions are not something special to only human meat.

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          Not necessarily, most of the known prions we associate with cannibalism are neurological, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any that primarily affect other parts of the body that require proteins that aren’t infectiously badly folded.