Thursday, December 3, 2020

Laboratory meat

This is not Vegan Beef. They still need to culture this meat from foetal cells. Or from biopsies. Maybe they mean biopsies of foeti; Grauniad is Grauniad.

It is also more expensive than just killing a chicken.

It is not more expensive than, say, killing a rhino. So if you wanted bushmeat, you can have your bushmeat. Or, if you've seen the younger Cronenberg's Antiviral...

This is, yes, good news for our open spaces and for those of us tired of livestock-based epidemics. I can see it being helpful on other planets' colonies. I am unsure that this will be the ethical leap forward as we are promised.

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