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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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pretty sure it would be considered cannibalism and made illegal

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Prion City here we GOOOOOOOOO!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure cannibalism is already legal in the United States. The problem is you can't legally acquire human meat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

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