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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?

Comments

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I really don't agree. PETA works to prevent cruelty to animals, and this is not animals we're talking about, but single-cells.

It's unreasonable to assume that PETA will take the same kind of "domino" stand as the right-wing anti-choice folks, who *need* to argue that stem cell research is wrong in order to argue against abortions in general.

In this case, the single-cell tissue growth would prevent the slaughter of animals, and I just can't imagine an ethical argument against it, except perhaps that meat isn't necessary at *all*, so perhaps spending time and energy on this technology is time and energy that could be spent in other ways, toward, for instance, promoting a healthier, meatless diet worldwide.

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oh ::ponders:: yeah, I don't know much about PETA except what I know from hearsay about them.

I could see, though, arguments that the lab-grown meat is 'unnatural' and therefore wrong...some of the comments below seem to have sorta that reaction, even if it's of the 'eww!' variety. And possibly some arguments about the contamination of food by genetic tweaking, which is apparently what alot of European countries are/were concerned about. (had a science teacher who's research in plant genetics got halted because of protests, he came back and mentioned the stories which I think our class found surprising just because so much manipulation has gone into American plants that we don't think/notice it much anymore...or was never too concerned about it in the first place ::shrugs::)