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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 31 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd just had a cousin burger

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

but most importantly, did you inject or snore

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Asleep all night, snoring drugs.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I feel like that will become illegal pretty quickly.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Probably, can't imagine it being good for your health. But there may be a brief, highly profitable window.

[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (2 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 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 6 points 3 months 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 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months 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 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago
[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

https://feddit.uk/comment/10436226

[–] Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Pretty sure it would be considered cannibalism and made illegal

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Prion City here we GOOOOOOOOO!

[–] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 8 points 3 months 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 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months 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 6 points 3 months 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 3 points 3 months ago

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

[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

This kind of concept is in Brandon Cronenbergs' film Antiviral

[–] ronflex@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago

the same people who bought the bath water, I guess

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 3 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Armin Meiwes went vegetarian I just checked.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He was always very oddly into ethical consumption.

Very

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 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.

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's a children's author, oof 😆

Slightly different life choices between the two.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Maiwald

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 1 points 3 months ago

Not only an author but the co-creator and original host of Die Sendung mit der Maus, Germany's longest-running and most popular educational show for children.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

People into vore are about to feast!

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