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Lab grown meat already exists. The same processes could easily make human meat without harming the human.

I'm fairly certain this will at some point lead to a social media fad of people trying, well, people. It seems like every possible stupid action has already been turned into one at this point https://eu.app.com/story/news/world/2024/03/07/what-is-tiktok-chroming-trend/72879475007/

Onlyfans creators already sell stuff like toenail clippings and bathwater https://kotaku.com/belle-delphine-onlyfans-paypal-pornhub-bath-water-1851491916

Wouldn't be difficult to imagine people buying meat made of their favourite creator. What they do with it is between them and their god.

"Do you really want to eat Bella Thorne's ass? Well, for just $19.99 you can fry up a small part of it!"

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[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What stuff was you on when you came up with this revelation?

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd just had a cousin burger

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

but most importantly, did you inject or snore

Edit: snort, fuck autocorrect

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Asleep all night, snoring drugs.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Inject drugs by day, snore by night. All day.

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

So you kind of miss the obvious long term application in this scenario: buy a totally realistic dildo clone of my penis, buy a clone of my boobs etc. A step beyond just meat but the more realistic application of this technology in the sex world.

I think they'll be eating their favourite onlyfans creators, just not in the way you're suggesting.

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And how do you keep that from deteriorating and decaying? It would be meat after all and meat has the nasty property to get really bad in very short time without a living body attached to it keeping it fresh.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well planned obsolescence is a good thing for the content maker - the customer has to buy it again if they like it. The ultimate DRM?

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 6 points 1 year ago

Okay, if you phrase it that way then it is a feature not a bug 🤔😄

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[–] kristof47@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Wait, would my dildo clone have a foreskin? Would the fake be more real than the real thing?

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea, I hit on that same thought later in another comment.

https://feddit.uk/comment/10436226

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like that will become illegal pretty quickly.

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[–] Strayce 18 points 1 year ago

There was that artist back in the early 2000s who made caviar from her own eggs.

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

This kind of concept is in Brandon Cronenbergs' film Antiviral

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Pretty sure it would be considered cannibalism and made illegal

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prion City here we GOOOOOOOOO!

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 12 points 1 year ago

Where are the infectious prions coming from if it is lab grown meat? There should be the same risks with any other lab grown meat then, because prions are not something special to only human meat.

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Long as we don't lab grow brains for food we should be good on that front.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily, most of the known prions we associate with cannibalism are neurological, but that doesn't mean there aren't any that primarily affect other parts of the body that require proteins that aren't infectiously badly folded.

[–] BuckenBerry@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure cannibalism is already legal in the United States. The problem is you can't legally acquire human meat.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 9 points 1 year ago

I don't think cannibalism is illegal in many places, the problem with it is acquiring the meat.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago

It's the only true vegan meat - given with consent.

[–] ronflex@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is though is who tf would wanna do that (eat it)

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the same people who bought the bath water, I guess

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People into vore are about to feast!

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There will no doubt be a line of the wealthiest people selling their sole for a profit.

I don't think this is what was implied when we said to "eat the rich", though. Or "bootlicker" and "ass kisser".

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...selling their sole for a profit.

Ah, I see what you did there 🦶

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem is that the lab-meat probably wouldn’t taste the same as the human-meat. I’m reasonably confident that the (minimum) 18 years of living the OF person would have to do impacts and changes the quality and taste of flesh.

It’s possible that the lab-meat would taste like the OF person did when they were a baby… but that opens a whole new door of moral and ethical and legal issues.

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[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Armin Meiwes went vegetarian I just checked.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was always very oddly into ethical consumption.

Very

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I keep mixing up Armin Meiwes and Armin Meiwald. Really unfortunate coincidence that their names are so similar yet what they're known for is so different.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd eat a Bell Delphine burger. I wouldn't spend my own money on it, but I feel like that'd make for a fun story.

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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Zuckerberg will do a video of him smoking some thot's ass meat. With Sweet Baby Ray's, of course.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I hate to say it, but you’re probably right. 🤢

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Why bother just make a brainless clone and put an ai in it. Its not human so it has no rights?

[–] BeBa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately I think Bella Thorne has stopped doing only fans :,(

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no idea who she is, I just Googled popular Onlyfans creators because I didn't want to reference the only one I knew again which was Belle Delphine.

[–] CaptSatelliteJack@lemy.lol 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I commend your commitment to keeping the bit fresh

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