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Italy bans cultivated meat products
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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I think its a good thing. Cultivated "meat" is just a giant cancer grown in laboratory. Imagine what health risks eating cancer could bare...
I disagree with that statement generally, but anyway, you can't catch cancer. You can catch a disease that causes cancer, but eating cancer itself wouldn't give you cancer. You can however catch prion disease... And these can live in real flesh/meat you get from a shop.
Also, there will be ground up cancer in processed meat. I guarantee it. You don't think farm animals get cancer?
Christ. New horrors beyond my imagination.
Still, my point stands that there are already risks to animal agriculture. Tasmanian devil cancers don't make this a no go IMO.
(I am aware that's not what you are suggesting)
I would imagine synthetic meat would be strictly regulated anyway. According to the article OP linked, there's only two companies in the US that have been approved to make synthetic meat.
Yup, Tasmanian Devil facial tumor disease is indeed pretty graphic.
It should be noted however that the transmission is limited to within a single species, which recently went through a population bottleneck that resulted in their immune systems having difficulty telling each other's cells apart. Something like a bovine-to-human transmissible cancer would be orders of magnitude more unlikely.
Wouldn't the end goal be to create immortal cell lines for the various cuts of meat? Otherwise, we need to keep (albeit much smaller) populations of livestock around to continually harvest new cells from.
You think regular meat doesn't ever come from animals with cancer? Or even contains cancerous cells? Not ever?
This dude doesn't even know what cancer is lmfao