whoa, NEAT.

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Edible Meat Can be Grown in a Lab on Industrial Scale

via telophase

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thought in response to comments: is this partially creepy 'cause most of the more integrated aspects of tissue enginnering is skin grafts (burn victims) and so lab-grown meat is associated with cannibalism? or is it just on principle?

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[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

I can't remember exactly what it was, but wasn't there at least one SF movie with this premise? Only it made it all evil and stuff? I think exposure to Cold War era SF tends to give you residual suspicion of any kind of food engineering, but it's been a while since I went digging...

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hmmm, I don't think it was Soylent Green? (which was people)

[guede-mazaka.livejournal.com]

The general idea gets referenced a lot in nearly all SF--humanity's exhausted its resources/can't grow food fast enough, so they turn to artificial cultivation. There, the disgust factor is usually Matrix-esque: it tastes right, but who the fuck really knows what's in it (and have most people missed the fact that the Matrix set-up was cannibalistic? Liquefied humans got fed to growing humans?).