• Coskii
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    He’s also strangely against lab grown meat… which I just flat out don’t understand. It’s unproven on whether or not it’s even economically viable… and PA is famous for scrapple. So I mean… calling anything else slop is confusing.

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      It’s a well known fact that Republicans like killing animals. Just ask Kristi Noem

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        I remember reading this article on the subject and finding it interesting: https://archive.ph/8xyWx

        My terrible summary of that article is that it’s really hard to turn cell goop into something that is recognizably hamburger. There’s a shitload of structure to meat so you have to make the cells do their “turn into this part of a cow” thing. That’s been really difficult to scale up. One shortcut you can take is to use actual animal meat as a starter, but then you’re no longer making vegetarian meat, and I seem to recall there being some other issue with that.

        I really want lab grown meat to work, but I’m losing hope.

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          If we made a continuously long chain of meat using artificial cells, at what point is is it just the cells? Or is it still the Meat of Theseus?

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        On paper it totally should be. I mean, you’re not growing animals, just the parts you want to eat in a vat.

        But well, in actuality it may follow the same path as vertical farming.