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Scientists Create Meat from Human Cells But Claim It’s Not Cannibalism
Live Science ^ | 11/17/2020 | Paul Seaburn

Posted on 11/17/2020 9:17:37 AM PST by BenLurkin

According to scientists at a company specializing in regenerative medicine and developing biomaterial for spinal cord treatments, it’s not cannibalism if the ‘steaks’ are grown from the consumer’s own cells at home … and the see this as a way to reduce the consumption of animal flesh and all of the environmental and health issues associated with it.

“A group of American scientists and designers have developed a concept for a grow-your-own steak kit using human cells and blood to question the ethics of the cultured meat industry. Ouroboros Steak could be grown by the diner at home using their own cells, which are harvested from the inside of their cheek and fed serum derived from expired, donated blood.”

In a press release for the annual Beazley Designs of the Year awards organized by London’s Design Museum, scientist Andrew Pelling, founder of the Ottowa biotech firm Spiderwort, industrial designer Grace Knight and artist and researcher Orkan Telhan unveiled a display of amuse-bouche (bite-sized hors d’œuvre)-sized Ourboros Steak on display either preserved in resin in small cups or lost on traditional-sized plates on a table. You may recognize the term “Ourboros” – it’s an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail … an appropriate name for eating steaks grown from one’s own cells.

The team sees growing Ourboros Steaks as do-it-yourself project – not-cannibals will be able to buy a DIY kit containing swabs for collecting cheek cells, pre-grown scaffolds made from mushroom mycelium for growing them, human serum for feeding them and instructions on the proper temperature for growing them (like a warm oven) for three months until you have your tray of human amuse-bouche.

(Excerpt) Read more at mysteriousuniverse.org ...


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1 posted on 11/17/2020 9:17:37 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SunkenCiv


2 posted on 11/17/2020 9:18:54 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh yeah, great! “Hey, Honey, I just ate myself and I was really good.” Sounds like another BLM mantra. The ultimate narcissist daytrip. Sheesh!


3 posted on 11/17/2020 9:18:55 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like they’re just trying to serve mankind.


4 posted on 11/17/2020 9:19:29 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: BenLurkin

soylent green


5 posted on 11/17/2020 9:20:58 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: BenLurkin

Yeah, it is.
Anyone thinking otherwise is nuts.


6 posted on 11/17/2020 9:22:04 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: BenLurkin


7 posted on 11/17/2020 9:22:21 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: BenLurkin

Tastes like chicken?


8 posted on 11/17/2020 9:22:38 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: BenLurkin

Man is granted dominion over all the beasts of Earth....

Keep this cannibal-steak crap away from me...I will have a Big Mac instead!

I suppose eating yourself is a wonderful thing for Marxist lunatics....no good will come of this.


9 posted on 11/17/2020 9:23:33 AM PST by Bobalu ("You can't serve papers on a rat, Baby Sister. You gotta kill him or let him be." --Rooster Cogburn)
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To: BenLurkin

cultured meat

The new Kobe Beef?

10 posted on 11/17/2020 9:23:43 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Pollard

At least Soylent Green was broken down into basic chemicals and reprocessed as wafers.


11 posted on 11/17/2020 9:23:59 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Interesting that this steak is termed ‘Ouroboros,” the occult symbol for the serpent biting its own tail.


12 posted on 11/17/2020 9:24:10 AM PST by spirited irish ( )
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To: irishjuggler

Sounds like bovine spongiform encephalitis


13 posted on 11/17/2020 9:24:22 AM PST by SMARTY ("Barbarism is the absence of standards to which an appeal can be made" Y Gasset)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m betting I know what party they voted for.

Liberals always lie.


14 posted on 11/17/2020 9:25:17 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is thp at they are both death cults. N)
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To: BenLurkin

Synthetic Soylent Green


15 posted on 11/17/2020 9:25:40 AM PST by DannyTN (<P><a href="https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3902132/posts">)
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To: SMARTY

“To serve man” was a cookbook in an old Twilight Zone episode.


16 posted on 11/17/2020 9:26:18 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: irishjuggler

I saw what you did there.


17 posted on 11/17/2020 9:26:43 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: BenLurkin

Solient Green?


18 posted on 11/17/2020 9:27:10 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: Pollard

Soylent Green was _not_ supposed to be an instruction manual!


19 posted on 11/17/2020 9:28:14 AM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!)
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To: Pollard

Soylent Green was _not_ supposed to be an instruction manual!


20 posted on 11/17/2020 9:28:14 AM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!)
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