Meatball from long-extinct mammoth created by food firm
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Exclusive: Australian company resurrects flesh of lost species to demonstrate potential of meat grown from cells

I don’t even know why i was surprised, the mammoth meatball was created for capitalist consumerist purposes

Stalin please come back

  • PolandIsAStateOfMind
    102·
    2 years ago

    I think it’s opposite. Lab grown meat is great idea, but it needs a lot of further development. By doing such a project (sounds disgusting though, like wooly meatball, yuck) they are getting the traction in public space and support and funding for those research.

    • redtea
      9·
      2 years ago

      I agree. If we’re growing meat in labs and the lab only needs a DNA sample to get the meat growing, it could be anything. Why not an extinct animal?

      T-rex T-bone steak. Raptor ribs. Dodo drumsticks. Bourgeois paté.

      Okay, you would have to imagine the bones. And the last one is a bit optimistic.

      Now, if they brought the woolly mammoth back to life to rear it for meat… that would be terrible.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind
        61·
        2 years ago

        Now, if they brought the woolly mammoth back to life to rear it for meat… that would be terrible.

        Yes no questions here. Resurrect them just to slaughter would be needless cruelty.

  • Shrike502
    5·
    2 years ago

    Oh hey, I remember a concept like this used by Frederick Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth to highlight the hyper-consumerist nature of the world depicted in their book. Back then it was science fiction, and a bit ridiculous perhaps. Strange to see it become a reality!