I mean you have to buy it on your own accord, culture your own cells, and then successfully cook and eat them. As long as you aren't stealing other people's cells to eat them without their consent it seems more ethical than the current meat industry.

without causing harm to animals

• Humans are animals
• Growing me-steak and eating it causes psychic damage
• Therefore, an animal was harmed

Incoming: nonconsensual meat grown from samples illicitly taken against someone's will.

Of course it's ethical, unless I'm seriously misunderstanding something you literally have to make the decision to buy it and then partake in it.

I guess you can use it unethically but by default intended usage it's fine

Haha I've been saying for fucking years that boutique lab growing meat outlets will pop up selling exotic animal meats and celebrity human meat. We are getting close to that future

To me that's more ethical than killing of billions of animals, and the latter is considered ethical. I wouldn't do that because that would feel weird, but not unethical.

I bet I taste delicious!

This is ethical despite it walking the line of taboo. It hurts no one, and if the tissue sample can be extracted at home without causing damage to the donor I see no issue with it.

I would be worried about disease first, but if it's your own cells maybe there's less chance? Prions are terrifying

My second question would be taste

If there's no disease and it tastes good then fuck yeah all in

What if I want to grow my steak into a hollow-cylinder shape, and also, not eat it, per-se?

Don't you get prions from canibalism

Also if this costs less than supermarket meat I could buy some beef and clone it

I would try this in a fucking heartbeat

It's unethical because you can't safely perform muscle biopsies at home, thus it is a violation of the duty of care, and culturing stratified squamous epithelium and calling it meat(and steak no less) is lying without any benefit to others, which is a fundamental ethical violation.

Fuck, I've always wanted to eat human meat anyway. I'd kill for a sample like this. I don't care about morals here. I'm a vegetarian. I just want to know. If my buddy was like "ayy we're eating Dan from accounting's arm tonight" I'd be there with no questions asked. The police can sort it out.

fetal bovine serum (FBS)... is derived from the blood of calf fetuses after their pregnant mothers are slaughtered by the meat or dairy industry.

I did not know this... and after reading the wiki, I found it rather disturbing...

The first stage of the production process for FBS is the harvesting of blood from the bovine fetus after the fetus is removed from the slaughtered cow. The fetus dies from the lack of oxygen by remaining in the protective environment of the uterus for a minimum of 15–20 minutes after the cow is dead...

Man-made man-steaks beyond my comprehension

The perfect gift for RimWorld players.

By what technicality this isn't cannibalism?

Yes. You consented. It's just more you.

"Eat my ass!"

"Don't mind if I do."

soylent me?

Remember that guy on Reddit who claims he had to have his leg amputated and he somehow got to keep it, and he and his friends cooked and ate it?

That's weird, but as long as it remains their own, or consenting others, I think it's fine. The minute capitalism gets involved I think it becomes exploitative and unethical - long pork in the grocery store fundamentally should not be a thing.