Is this muscle mass grown for medical purposes? Please tell me it is nothing else. 😧

Elizabeth, the referenced 'Ouroboros Steak' was not grown for anything, it is a piece of art. However, there is research in the meat industry using live cells, and controversy connected with the research and development of lab grown meat.

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Art? Disgusting.

Ummm. No. I like my beef grown the old fashioned way. We used to raise our own, and I will go back to that.

I think the controversy goes far beyond personal preference. The same sorts of plusses and minuses used in the plant GMO arguments could be raised here. But the fact that there is continued investment in lab grown meat seems to mean that the investment companies think that the research will bear fruit. (Or in this case, meat).

Bumblebeez: I had exactly the same thought when I read the article telling about this.

Kate, I think we're just showing our age! I doubt it's a millennial cult classic LOL

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It doesn't matter how complicated everything on our planet works, everything, all life forms, all matters, ------ It all comes down to one single operating force, namely the food chain.

Left alone, the food chain is self-balancing, always in equilibrium. Disaster happens if any link in the food chain is artificially modified.

The whole world at this point is delicious lunch for the corona virus.

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Soooo..... lab grown animal meat is so much bad that utilizing self-cannibalism as art is good? How gauche, self-cannibalism art is so 2018. I wonder what Mr. Berzinsh thinks of it.

Even more amusing is the creators of this "art" claim it isn't really cannibalism to grow and eat human meat..... well then, that defeats the purpose of their art then, because that means growing and eating animal meat isn't really a problem either :)

Hard pass for me, but then I just ate lunch. Check back when I'm hungry.

I try to avoid green food if I didn't grow it myself. lol

Why?. Oh why?

I think I consider meat to be flesh taken from a once living being. A bird, a mammal. A fish?

Grown in a lab, just an assembly of amino acids, proteins, lipids, whatever. (even if DNA was used to assemble it into a concoction unidentifiable from "real" meat) I'd still consider it artificial meat, not real meat.

If I couldn't get, or developed an aversion to eating real meat, I probably wouldn't be interested in fake meat.

But I would have no moral objections as long as it wasn't grown from and/or marketed as human meat.

Grown from and marketed as beef, pork, most anything else would be okay.

Fake human meat might be a hit at the zoo. The big cats would probably love it. :-)

If the movie is as bad as that trailer... I'm glad I never watched it!!!

I did read the original book (Make Room, Make Room, by Harry Harrison), well before the movie was made - early enough that I didn't know what Soylent Green was until revealed in the novel.